Cinematographer Nastya goes to a remote weather station together with meteorologist Andrey to independently investigate the disappearance of a married couple of meteorologists from the station. As a result, she realizes that Andrei is involved in the disappearance of this couple. But Andrei also...
Emir Kusturica views himself as a rock musician and believes that he became a world-famous filmmaker by pure chance, as he shoots his movies only in between concert tours with the “No Smoking Orchestra” band. At these little pinpoints of time he gets “Palms d’Or” at Cannes, “Golden...
"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...
The annual opium production in Afghanistan is equal to 150 billion single doses! This is 25 times more than the population of the globe. At the same time, even if all heroin production in Afghanistan is destroyed now, the current situation is that its reserves will last for future generations for...
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...
When Tsar Nicholas II abdicated, 43 people agreed to follow him into exile and share his prison life with him. Only 43 - out of the entire multimillion-dollar Russia! Among them there was not a single relative of the Tsar and Tsarina, not a single member of the royal family. There were no close...
The story of the family life of the brilliant Spanish artist Pablo Picasso and the Russian ballerina Olga Khokhlova appears as a problem of choosing between the values of life and the goals of art. The necessity of this choice turns sublime love into a struggle for extermination, which, in turn,...
In 1964, an unknown provincial actor Anatoly Solonitsyn arrives in Moscow in the film crew of the film "Andrei Rublev" and offers himself to the main rod. The Khudsovet, headed by Mikhail Romm, urged Tarkovsky to abandon the dubious candidacy. Turning to specialists in ancient Russian literature...
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...
"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...
“To settle for the martyrdom and death for faith, a man must feel the reality of God being and the reality of the other world.” The film is about the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia who martyred for Orthodox faith in the middle of the 20th century.
A documentary about military pilots who had to make a difficult choice. With the collapse of the USSR, their regiment, along with the Crimea, went to Ukraine. Take the oath to a new country for the second time or leave your home airfield to the north, leave your apartments and even your family?
In the documentary, the official version of the outbreak of war is questioned and hypotheses are put forward about the preparation of an attack on Great Britain...
Alexander Zinoviev is recognized as an outstanding scientist in the field of sign theory and the theory and theory of induction, is one of the three strongest logicians in the world, Doctor of Philosophy, professor of logic, author of more than 40 books, among which are famous "Gaping Heights".
This film is about one of these stringers: Michael Schmidt. One of the main questions of the film: what makes a person exist in a situation of constant risk to life? Is it just a game, extreme entertainment or something more? Michael has been covering the Arab-Israeli conflict for many years, where...
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,...
In the film, with the help of family psychologists, an attempt is made to understand the tragic love story of the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso and the Russian ballerina Olga Khokhlova. Their relationship had all the facets, mistakes and crisis situations that men and women go through at different...
