A gripping war drama that tells the story of Maria Petrova, in whose fate, as in a mirror, the fate of the country was reflected: the daughter of a priest, who renounced her father and the faith, she serves in the NKVD. On the eve of the battle for Moscow, Maria meets the clairvoyant eldress...
The main character picture Wayne (Alexei Nesterenko), a young American, Russian origin, working models and dreams of becoming a famous couturier. On the eve of the New Year, Wayne travels to Moscow, to show fashion. His American dream to be realized if he married millionershe named Sherri. Wedding...
Adam’s first wife Lilith is mentioned in the ancient Oriental legends, in Talmud and in the medieval books of Cabala. According to these sources, she was not created from Adam's rib like Eve but from clay like he himself. Nevertheless Lilith was not recognised by Adam as his equal and left him...
In the Russian provinces life seems to have frozen since the 1990s. Here you can hide from the worries of the big world, and heal the wounds of the soul. Thus argues Mila, having decided to return home to the mother’s house after an unsuccessful attempt “to conquer Moscow”. Mila’s sister...
May, 8, 1945. Maxim Prokhorov, major of People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs, arrives at a small northern island. There live eleven people: five young women, five children from one to three years, and the captain Karp Nichiporuk. The young mothers were exiled to the island from the territories...
The film tells about Ioannis Kapodistrias, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Empire under Alexander I, and later the first ruler of Independent Greece.
This down-to-earth story that takes place in the mountains of North Caucasus, between two adjacent villages – Ossetian Toli and Georgian Teli – tells us about simple and naïve people that governments try to divide today by an official state border. These people wish to live in peace and...
The elegy film is dedicated to the memory of the remarkable Soviet and Russian poet, translator and writer of the second half of the twentieth century, Bella Akhmadulina.
A cinematographer is a person who is most often not particularly visible, but what he is doing is always visible. The Director of Photography is a rare opportunity to talk to filmmakers about filmmakers. This is not a conversation about their life, but about the profession that is the meaning of...
A film from the life of a provincial doctor. The peculiarity of the narrative is that the doctor is Azerbaijani by nationality, and he works in the Russian outback. This is a story of complicated relationships between different mentalities, cultures and traditions that are taking place at all...
This story, told on behalf of Katya Nikitina, is about how in Yekaterinburg in 2012 the authorities once again tried to close the City Without Drugs Foundation, and several criminal cases were initiated against its creator Yevgeny Roizman and like-minded people. At that time, there were about forty...
A film about a unique woman, Zoya Borisovna Boguslavskaya - a writer, playwright, public figure and the wife of the Soviet poet Andrei Voznesensky, who celebrates her 100th birthday this year.
The Lesson tells the story of Zane, a devoted teacher mentoring the senior class in a Latvian high school. She tries to live her life in the most meaningful way possible. She takes her mission as a teacher seriously, and works hard to help her students develop their talents. Even so, as a younger...
The year is 1952, when the XV Olympic Games came to Helsinki. The two main characters of the film — Russian Alexei Nikonov and Finn Matthias Savolainen — were familiar with each other before the war, when they were connected through work in Germany and a shared love for a German woman by the...
