Portrait of a troubled peasant family. The film tells the story of two times widow Anna Belova who lives together with her brother Mikhail. Blending the two personalities, Kosakovsky characterizes the true Russian soul: she is the rational worker, honest and strong - he is the drunken poet, the idealist, his philosophy fades into radical nonsense time after time.
The picture tells about the feat of Russian scientists who are sent to Svalbard as part of the Russian-Swedish expedition in order to measure the actual size and shape of the globe.
A documentary on women in St. Petersburg who enroll in a program which will help them land millionaire husbands.
Childless spouses writer Andrei and artist Olga adopt the eight-year-old Ksyusha. The director of the orphanage where the girl was brought up is Andrei Iren's ex-girlfriend. She still passionately loves Andrei and intends to return him at all costs, even if for this he will have to destroy his family happiness. Meanwhile, Andrei is writing a science fiction novel about the dark side of Petersburg. On the pages of his book, the city on the Neva turns into a phantasmagoric world, where time itself has stopped, and the streets are inhabited by soulless creatures. Suddenly, Ksenia enters the world of "dark Petersburg" from the novel by Andrey, where he meets a mysterious friend Paramon. Heroes are waiting for many dangerous adventures...
Robbers in shamanic masks attack the convoy and steal 40 pounds of gold. The St. Petersburg gold miner accuses the nomadic Tungus tribe, recruits a detachment of thugs to return the stolen goods and take revenge, but not only he has prospects for gold.
A confessional documentary about the thoughts of a woman just before her abortion.
The studio is holding screen tests for the lead role.
The main character of the film is DJ Morze, a philologist by training, the creator and ideological inspirer of the OBERWAVE project - a community and a series of parties dedicated to sensual neo-decadent music and the aesthetics of a feast during the plague.
The story of a young lad and his struggle for survival while living in an orphanage being bullied constantly by some of the older boys.
A day in the lives of six Russian twenty-somethings living in St. Petersburg.
A brilliant observational documentary filmed at the Civil Registry office in St. Petersburg, where people come to have births, marriages, divorces and deaths registered. 'It’s like a theatre here', one says in the beginning of the film, and it indeed is, the Theater of Life. The young women working in the office have a job that shifts from being verbally attacked and called idiots, to situations where they are subject to flirt, or where they master the happy ceremony of marriage. Faces, joy, sorrow, fun, despair... It’s all very well composed, rhythmical, with atmosphere conveyed, and lives up to what a documentary should be: multilayered and universal. And about Life.
The documentary film dedicated to the life of Nicholas II and his family was edited from chronicle of 1896-1916 from the funds of The Russian State Documentary Film & Photo Archive.
Ira left the general regime women's colony near St. Petersburg 2 years ago. Is Ira free if she returns there every month?
In the early 2000s, Valentina, a retired resident of the dying Tatar village of Kichuy, lost her mother. For a long time she was looking for a way to accept the loss, she converted to the Christian faith. Having found her own way to return to life, the heroine decided to help the few inhabitants of the village and restore the dilapidated ancient temple. While the villagers do not understand why restore the temple, Valentina and her friends are trying to survive the loss of loved ones and restore the church.
The film is about the life and death of the outstanding playwright Alexander Vampilov. Life and death, which reflected the era. The two most important meanings are connected in this story. The fate of a simple provincial man who chooses the path of the artist and the love of their native places.
Farid's wife is dead. When she was dying, Farid was diagnosed with blood cancer. Now his relatives are trying to save him, but Farid can’t live without his wife and refuses to be treated.
What makes men and women lie to others or to themselves? A dramatic movie almanac about the bitter side of love.
The story of the film is set in a coastal town along the Mediterranean sea. Here is a popular tourist attraction „Balcon de Europa”. Like from the balkony we are observing a mini model of our world, where the routine of one person take place in the background of massive feasts.
The first attempt in the history of Russian documentalism to understand what was the historical moment in which Anatoly Sobchak appeared in the political arena what his role in the history of the country was and, finally, why he suffered as a politician collapse. Perhaps his ideas were too advanced for his time?
Year after year, a simple farmer from Pskov, François Toulikounkiko, tries to find his original way to succeed in a Russian village and find an answer to the question: "What prevents us from living better?". This is the ironic story of a dreamer of the campaign and true patriot on the struggle against the difficulties of everyday life, big ideas and big projects, "success" that happens where you do not expect it .
