Studio Ostrov

Almanac of five short stories commissioned by ROSKOMKINO to celebrate the 100th anniversary of cinema.

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.

Kresty is one of the oldest and largest prisons in Russia, located in the center of Saint Petersburg. The history of Kresty reflects the history of Russia. Throughout 130-year existence of the prison, thousands of people have passed through these walls: revolutionaries, engineers, generals, writers, poets, scientists, thieves, serial killers. The Kresty prison is society in a nutshell, where human vices as well as fortitude, freedom and dignity reveal themselves to the fullest.

Born in the USSR: 28 Up follows the lives of people who grew up in the Soviet Union. They give an insight into Russian life today, aged 28.

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Russian Orthodox Church, fasts and holidays, about the Orthodox way of life and spiritual guidance of young people – in historical documents, literary sources, films and modern parables stories.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 church-going people. The clarity and accessibility of Orthodox rites is an urgent issue nowadays.

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.

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!

The Leningrad period of V. Putin's life.

Ordinary Gods is a feature-length documentary exploring the lives and sacrifices of the world's most promising professional soccer players.

Eight of the strongest athletes from different parts of the world are fighting for a chance to get to Sochi.

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.

The film is about the outstanding actor and director Leonid Obolensky, who passed the Stalin camps, and about a young woman who was with him in the last years of his life.

This documentary was created for the 130th anniversary of the birth of Nicholas II and the 80th anniversary of the execution of the royal family.

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.

Born in the USSR:14 Up follows the lives of people who grew up in the Soviet Union. They give an insight into Russian life.

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.

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.

The documentary "We will be the first!" about boys who dream of becoming professional athletes was filmed for 3 years. During the filming, the characters turned into young people. Some of them were forced to give up their dreams, and someone got a ticket to Manchester United. Among the heroes of the film are the Honored coach of Russia Leonid Slutsky and the hope of Russian football 15-year-old Sergei Pinyaev.

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.

This is a chronicle of several days in the lives of people who made a huge contribution to the main event of 2014 with their own hands. Ice pouring specialists, Olympic medal makers, builders, engineers, border guards, metallurgists, doctors, volunteers — they will all talk about how the Sochi Olympics came to be a reality.