During the bloody war in Chechnya, a British couple and two Russian soldiers are taken hostage by Chechen rebels. Two of the hostages are then...

A young businessman believes that money and fortune are the most important things in the world. One day he loses all his money and faces the...

With the money of the gangsters, the director made a film that received prizes at four festivals, but did not raise money. Now he is forced to shoot...

"Makarov" both a popular Russian name, and also slang for the word "gun," serves as a metaphor for the brutal reality of life in a post-totalitarian...

Examines the assassination of Russian musician and actor Igor Talkov.

The czar of Russia has died and a power vacuum has developed. This period in the late 16th and early 17th century has been called "The Time of...

Few months before collapse of USSR. Villages and collective farms are facing with problem: young and working age people leaving countryside for...

An eccentric comedy. Love and money have always inspired people to feats, long wanderings and even crimes. It has always been almost impossible to...

He is overly intelligent... He is genius... And he's just trying to make his life a little bit better in an new era post-communist Russia.

The story of the Siberian Zavarzin family, which has long lived by bee trade. After an incomprehensible virus entered the hives one day, accusations...

New Year's Eve 2006. Our days, the place is a certain town, where famous artists are brought by chance. The film is based on sketches from popular...

Praised for its fine photography and production design if not its narrative, Sergei Bondarchuk directed this adaptation of the tale by Alexander...

Sumptuous filming of the journey of a shipwrecked Japanese expedition from the Pacific Ocean across Siberia to the court of Catherine the Great of...

Once the actor Rebrov flatly refused to participate in an obscene performance and flew, as they say, out the door. When he came home and found out...

The summer of 1971 was hot and dry. This circumstance ensured that the plan would be exceeded and promised large earnings for Ivan Kopyriv's...

A woman living a difficult life suddenly finds love.

Mysterious woman appears, claiming to be a newlywed husband's missing wife.

In July 1941 during the retreat of Soviet troops Sgt. Mamin tries to rescue his Soviet heavy tank KV-2, which has fallen into a river. He gathers a...

When in 1941 Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, their troops quickly besieged Leningrad. Foreign journalists are evacuated but one of them, Kate...

Tsarevich Alexei was one of the smartest people in the state. His father Peter hoped that he would take his place, but Alexei tried with all his...

In the center of the plot is a screenwriter hired to create a new film. He writes a script about his childhood in the post-war Moscow courtyard....

Thirties. Arriving from a provincial town in Moscow, Leka Khrapova did not enroll in law school, as her mother wanted, but entered acting. During her...

1918. A Red Army soldier Fyodor Krohov, authorized to withdraw farmers corn surpluses, comes to a small village, where White Guard can show up any...

The film tells the story of the life of an Old Believer community at the beginning of the last century. The drama of an unusual life, a story of love...

Vera Andreyevna and Grigory Petrovich are an elderly couple who have had a long and happy life together. One day in the market Vera Andreyevna runs...

Upset after a failed audition actor "vote a ride" driven by a pretty young woman. Suddenly they become hostages of the bandits seeking to get out of...

The cruel and unprincipled chairman of the district executive committee learns that the official should be sent to retirement. However, the rumors...

Sergei and Andrei are walking through a city park and see that a film shoot set just post World War II is taking place . They climb over the park...

The first secretary of the regional committee, Makhonin, sums up after the meeting of the party's general secretary with the regional economic and...

The story is about a marriage swindler of all-Union scale, who once decided to get married, and at the same time to check the profitability of his...

Famous actors and TV presenters Nikolai Fomenko and Ivan Urgant want to celebrate the holiday quietly and calmly, but, having lost their way, they...

A performance by the Alexandrinsky Theatre based on the eponymous play by Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol. The production is based on the stage version by...

When the British, wanting to surprise the Emperor Alexander Pavlovich, presented a clockwork miracle flea, they did not know into the hands of which...

This World War II story depicts the personal war between a Soviet sniper and a German sniper. Their feud continues after the war in Soviet-occupied...

Russian Empire. The second decade of the twentieth century. As a result of the conflict between the Entente and the bloc of the Central Powers led by...