A documentary about the sculptor Dasha Namdakov and the creation of the main sculpture of his life - "Father Baikal". Dasha's sculptures are famous all over the world, they are bought by Britain, New Zealand, France, Finland, Tai-Kavan, China, Spain, Italy, Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia. His work is acquired by patrons from all over the world, and exhibitions are held in the best museums in the world.
The Leningrad period of V. Putin's life.
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 women's ice hockey final. Disciplines given prominence here include speed skating, figure skating, aerial skiing, curling, and the biathlon. Training is analysed as much as the competitions themselves. A suite of accidents and mishaps, and the consequent tears of frustration, remind us that the Olympics is not just about winning.
Eight of the strongest athletes from different parts of the world are fighting for a chance to get to Sochi.
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 "being in the game" at the 2018 World Cup. The heroes of the film are Alexander Golovin, Roman Zobnin, Alexander Selikhov, Magomed Ozdoev, the Miranchuki brothers.
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.
Ordinary Gods is a feature-length documentary exploring the lives and sacrifices of the world's most promising professional soccer players.
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 Waltz”, unveiled here for the very first time, was written as a tribute to the place. The film is the reclusive composer’s eulogy to the community. It also serves as Karavoichuk’s farewell to audience as well as his last address and reminder of things that are truly important – love for your fellow man and virgin nature.
Born in the USSR: 21 Up follows the lives of people who grew up in the Soviet Union. They give an insight into Russian life today, aged 21.
"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, that this ethnic project is of interest not only in Russia, but throughout the world.
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 authorities of the criminal world.
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 Sats, Vsevolod Meyerkhold, Sergey Korolyov, Andrey Tupolev and many others.
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.
In the film by Sergei Miroshnichenko, the classic of Russian and world literature Alexander Solzhenitsyn reflects on his human and writer's fate: "... well, a lot has already been done in life. Maybe I'm on the last stretch, and the river doesn't promise me any elbow ahead yet… But the heart does not submit to the last mold." The writer appears before the audience as a husband and father - the head of a large and friendly family.
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.
The documentary tells about the Romanov family. It discusses versions about the possible salvation of the imperial family, tells about impostors who consider themselves descendants of Nicholas II, and the film also touches on the fate of the regicides.
Alexander Isaevich Solzhenitsyn. Actor Yevgeny Mironov shares his memories of meetings with him. Solzhenitsyn's friend Nikita Struve talks about how he published The GULAG Archipelago abroad. The widow Natalia Dmitrievna Solzhenitsyn tells about the last days of Alexander Isaevich's life, thoughts, goals and plans. The authors of the film offer rare shots of foreign chronicles and exclusive interviews of Alexander Isaevich, which have not been published so far.
Three parts of the cycle - three films: "Never Say Never", "Fraer of Muddy Water", "The Last Mohicans". Zhzhenov's activity in cinema began before the age of 22. Then there was an arrest with interrogations and prisons, then camps... The artist tells about his life in Russian prisons and the places where he was imprisoned: in Kresty, in Vladivostok, in Magadan. Excerpts from the films in which Georgy Zhzhenov starred surprisingly reveal his own life.
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 very cell where Zhzhenov spent two and a half years, his communal apartment. Georgy Stepanovich meets people with whom he was once familiar, long-forgotten names, surnames, poetic lines arise in his memory...
