Vasily Kutuzov, the namesake of the famous commander, ends up in a mental hospital because of his talent for making up jokes. Everyone in his family had this gift, and many suffered because of it. The authorities didn't like that the Kutuzovs were bothering people. Vasily's neighbors in the ward...
What, it would seem, could be more innocent than a women's toilet being renovated? In his booths you can hide from the bustle of the big city, discuss lovers, drink, cry, sleep, smoke and have sex... And you can also hide in it what no one should find. An unknown beauty leaves a disc with...
Mixture of documentary and fiction about the dictatorial 1930s, loosely based on the utopian fantasies of Fritz Lang and about the forbidden passionate love affair between a photographer and his model.
To fight mafia, a biologist and a programmer create a superman robot. An unexpected amendment to the calculations of one of the creators is made by erotic fantasies: superman turned out to be an exact copy of a photo model from a poster.
The plot is reminiscent of a fairy tale, when the husband goes sailing, and as a farewell, the wife ties a thread to his button so that she knows where her beloved is.
This is a poetic film set in the times of Lenin's NEP. A ballet dancer steals a brooch and gives it as a present to another dancer. This is a crime of passion. A mysterious black ball is after the heroine. She runs away from it and manages to give the brooch in an exquisite pirouette movement, as...
Closely based on Franz Kafka's book "Das Schloß", the movie shares the same action on a land surveyor who is called to a village to do a job that no one seems to have ordered. Once there, he takes up the struggle against bureaucracy emanating from the castle.
The end of the 19th century. A tiny colony of lepers in the isolated Yakut taiga. A healthy girl, brought there by chance, falls in love with one of the young male lepers. Soon she is bearing his child. His wife suddenly arrives from the outside world and tragedy ensues within this strange love...
In a kingdom shrouded in darkness, the malevolent VileGuile seized power, casting a wicked enchantment over the Queen and imprisoning the blind little princess, Darya, within the Enchanted Tinderbox. Fate intervenes as the box finds its way into the hands of the carefree roisterer Johnny whose...
The film tells the story of a young Russian in the early 90s, trying to escape the army in a psychiatric clinic. He's released years later, after intensive compulsory treatment. Has a documentary film maker he gets involved in the Chechen conflict, where he meets his own apparent death. He recalls...
A young woman lavishes the last care on her mother's lifeless body. At his side, a woman watch, a babouhcka , as they say among the Russians. The young groped, the day before with a sure hand, wash this body, prepare it. They accompany him, rock him and console him by the last goodbye.
Two middle-aged couples live in two-handed village huts: the Zvyagintsev's and the Arefyev's. Once the wives, tired of family life, decided to exchange husbands. Between old neighbors and good friends, a cheerful quadrille begins with a constant change of partners. Without wanting it, a lonely...
The film “We Others Will Not” emerged as a direct continuation of numerous meetings and conversations with Sergei Bodrov Jr. and Alexei Balabanov. The idea to reflect again on the phenomenon of Sergei Bodrov Jr.’s identity belongs to Evgeniy Nikishov and Valeriy Fedorovich. Together we...
Senior Lieutenant of the Navy Aleksey Alekhin, once descending to the seabed in a bathyscaphe, finds himself in a strange underwater cave that serves as a portal to a fabulous world. In this new unfamiliar place, he meets a little dragon left without a mother. Aleksey unwittingly becomes the...
Strangers on a train. Late in 1916, a brave and idealistic Russian officer in his 20s comes to his superiors' attention when he stands up to Rasputin at a nightclub. He's asked to carry important papers from Petersburg to Stockholm by train in the dead of winter, a dangerous mission. The...
