Documentary about the life and works of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in three parts, made for Russian TV in 2001, 2003, and 2008. The author died while the last part was being filmed.
A unique lengthy filmic record of the life of the employees, suspects and convicts in one of the oldest Russian prisons Butyrka Prison Castle, which stores legends and secrets of many inmates including Emelyan Pugachyov, Felix Dzershinsky, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Natalia...
This is a story about an amazing person who devotes his life to his students. Vladimir Fenchenko lit the hearts of hundreds of young filmmakers with love for cinema.
Endowed with outstanding cinematography, and in-depth interviews with competitors, this documentary underlines the gender parity being achieved at an Olympic level. Women compete in ski jumping for the first time at the Winter Games, and Canada is seen beating the United States at the last gasp in...
The film “The Book of the Church" tells about the Sacraments of the Russian Orthodox Church, fasts and holidays, about the Orthodox way of life and spiritual guidance of young people – in historical documents, literary sources, films and modern parables stories. The film is well suited for...
A portrait of a prison through whose walls a record number of politicians, revolutionaries, scientists, philosophers and soldiers passed. The heroes of the film are employees, prisoners and veterans of the Federal Penitentiary Service who once supervised Stalin's son Vasily, Lidia Ruslanova, the...
20 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, young directors come to the borders of a previously united country. Their personal stories are dedicated to people overcoming erected boundaries to be together.
Georgy Zhzhenov. Russian Cross. Part Two - "Fraer of Muddy Water"
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In the second part of the cycle, Georgy Zhzhenov talks about himself and about his life in prisons and the zones in which he had to sit. The geography of the sorrowful path is extensive: Leningrad (Kresty prison), Vladivostok, Magadan - from his hometown to the Far East, where the first years of...
This film is about Oleg Karavaichuk, eccentric musical genius and famous St. Petersburg composer, who takes his final stroll through Komarovo, a bay-side summer community just outside St. Petersburg where he spent his whole life and wrote most of his works. His final piece, “The Komarovo...
The exhibition decides the fate of the dogs and their offspring. This is also an important moment in the life of dog owners. A kind of parable about human dignity.
Georgy Zhzhenov. Russian Cross. Part One - "Never Say Never"
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The film tells about the outstanding actor Georgy Zhzhenov, his life in Leningrad, the beginning of film activity, arrest, investigation, detention in prisons "Shpalerki" and "Kresty". The hero, as it were, leads a tour of the historical places of his biography. Viewers together with him visit the...
The film tells the story of the Russian Paralympic Blind Football team which is preparing for the most important event in their lives - the European Championship. The team has only one goal - to win the gold medal at any cost!
This documentary follows the story of a mother's love: from an empty heart to a tragedy that has changed her, to creation and love, from rejecting her own son to adopting someone else's child and accepting him as her own.
"Buranovskiye Babushki", a group created in the mid-1980s, became famous for rehashing famous rock hits in their native Udmurt language, in a singing style inherited from their ancestors. None of the experts can give a clear definition in what style and genre they sing. One thing is known for sure,...
No matter how far the war retreats, its traces are imprinted on the torn earth and the memory of generations for tens, hundreds of years with bloody traces. The body of the earth is burned by shells, torn apart by mines - and we are its Parts. The heroes of the film are young Caucasian...
The film is about a new generation of Russian football players. For three years, the authors of the picture watched the heroes' paths to big football: hopes and victories, difficult trials and injuries, inevitable disappointments and sacrifices – all for the sake of fulfilling a common dream of...
