Studio Ostrov

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

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.

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

The Leningrad period of V. Putin's life.

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.

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.

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.

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 young soldier returns from the front line with a serious wound. How will he build his new life?

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.

A television documentary dedicated to the anniversary date – the 90th anniversary of the birth of actor, director, screenwriter, writer Vasily Shukshin. "I came to give you Free Rein" is a novel by Shukshin about Stepan Razin, which he dreamed of making into a film. But they didn't give it to him. The film tells in detail about the tragedy of the artist, who for many years fought for his idea, but turned out to be doomed…

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

This documentary follows the story of a mother's love: from an empty heart to a tragedy that has changed her, to creation and love, from rejecting her own son to adopting someone else's child and accepting him as her own.

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.