This film is not about Oleg Yankovsky in the usual sense: not a biography of a great actor, not a review of roles. And not the sharp facts from his personal life. Although it's all in the film: a dramatic fate, unknown pages of biography. Like any great actor, he possessed a secret - he did not...
These are love stories of people lawlessly separated by prison. Most of the characters in the film, which was shot for 4 years, suffered from imperfect laws or due to failures of the judicial system. The movie is about how difficult it is to wait and fight when there is nothing to hope for. About...
“To get up, you have to fall down,” the legendary boxer Kostya Tszyu understood this from his own experience. During his career in professional boxing at the time of filming, he suffered one defeat. But it turned out to be more important than all his victories.
The film is about the long-term relationship between the director and the character of her first film, the French indie artist, musician and director Siegfried, known as Sig. The story is dedicated to the experience of growing up, emancipation and finding their own identity in life and in art. The...
"Life is always concrete!" – says the hero of the film Anatoly Kanashchenkov throughout his life. At any time – socialist, perestroika, after the collapse of the Union – the "red director" Kanashchenkov emerged victorious from the most difficult situations. However, now, in order to get out...
“Kapustin Yar, the place where Alyosha lives, an autistic boy, is a rocket testing ground. I don’t believe that there are places forgotten by God. And I’m trying to guess the plan that combines human strength and apparent weakness at the same time in one place,” says directed by Arkady...
Three—time Olympic champion Irina Rodnina is the most famous figure skater in the world. Although she won her gold medals in pair skating, they often talk about her, not about her partners. Paired with Alexey Ulanov, and then with Alexander Zaitsev, she was the undisputed leader despite her small...
"I can get closer to God only through love for a man," says 75-year-old sculptor Marta, who still retains the ability to fall in love. And with each falling in love, experience your new birth - A WOMAN AND AN ARTIST. Her life dramatically combines old age, approaching death with a thirst for love...
"The fate of a person can not only be explained, but also predicted, using the same laws according to which a screenplay is built," says Yuri Arabov, a well–known Russian screenwriter, winner of the Cannes Film Festival. One day, an inexplicable, at first glance, event occurred in the fate of...
On April 12, 1961, the whole world learned the name of the man who became the most famous in the history of mankind: Yuri Gagarin. Overnight, he became the idol of millions, and his smile turned into a symbol. However, immediately after Gagarin's flight, a report appeared in Life magazine, in which...
The film tells about one of the most beautiful love stories of the 20th century. According to everyone who witnessed the relationship between the famous French actress Marina Vlady and the great Russian poet and actor Vladimir Vysotsky, it was that extraordinary love that we usually read about only...
Gagarin's surname is known all over the world. The name Titov is not familiar to everyone today. But it could have been the other way around. Herman Titov could become the first cosmonaut of the planet! But just two days before the start, he was appointed Yuri Gagarin's understudy. Before that,...