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- In the distant future, a space traveler from Earth breaks a special law and interferes with the history of another, Medieval-like planet.
- In the Russian wilderness, two brothers face a range of new, conflicting emotions when their father - a man they know only through a single photograph - resurfaces.
- Matvey, the fastest courier on the frozen canals of 19th century St. Peteresburg is recruited by a group of pickpockets working the winter markets and falls for high-ranking official's daughter, Alisa.
- Wounded as a tank driver in 1941 during World War II, Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov sees the latest Soviet machine gun fail. As he's also an inventor, he starts making improvements and in 1947 ends up creating the AK-47 assault rifle.
- A young woman is taken hostage by a police officer gone mad.
- The story of five aristocratic families in Russia during the Napoleonic Wars of 1812
- "The Seagull" is the name of the women's volleyball team from Kaliningrad, which is forced to head coach Maksim Topol - a sharp man with a complex, uncompromising character.
- Dariya the maid getting a boy to touch her large breast is just one incident that occurs when Yohan and Victor infiltrate two families, forcing young Liza and blind Ekaterina to appear in porn, but they are not so innocent themselves.
- A captured Soviet pilot faithful to his childhood friends leads an escape from a German concentration camp and then suffers from communist crimes.
- A thoughtful, detailed exposition of how and why the end of the Great War led inevitably to the Second World War, the most horrific in human history. Narrated by the great journalist Eric Sevareid.
- The writer is invited to the town of Tashlinsk by the mutants who emerged after an unnatural and constant rain causing the evacuation of the city, and by the children who are studying the unearthly knowledge of mutants.
- A look at the horrors of the Eastern Front of World War II from the points of view of repressed soldier of penal battalion and his young daughter, who stayed behind enemy lines.
- Adam's first wife Lilith is mentioned in ancient Oriental legends, in Talmud and in the medieval books of Cabala. According to these sources, she was not created from Adam's rib like Eve but from clay like he himself. Nevertheless Lilith was not recognized by Adam as his equal and left him after a quarrel heading for Babylon where pre-Adamians lived. She has no soul, and she is immortal. Lilith assumes different names, can change her appearance, and takes possession of men against their will. Once it's accomplished, she leaves her victims forever, marking them for either spiritual, or physical death. Whatever she does it is neither Good nor Evil. She is made of an altogether different matter. The story consists of three interrelated stories: "Escape" (1664, Hanseatic League); "Loss" (1883, Russian Empire/France); "Aberration Feelings" (1990, Latvia).
- A father takes his daughter to the zone where doctors can heal her ailment.
- As a painter in the court of King Carlos IV, Goya - played by the great Lithuanian actor Donatas Banionis (The Red Tent, Solaris) - has attained wealth and reputation. He believes in King and Church, yet he is also a Spaniard who dearly loves his people. This contradiction presents him with a dilemma. Based on Lion Feuchtwanger's novel, Goya is one of ten East German films originally shot in 70mm. This release is the director's cut and shows the influence of great filmmakers from Buñuel and Saura, to Eisenstein. Goya was nominated for the Golden Prize at the 1971 Moscow International Film Festival.
- This captivating exploration of Alvar Aalto, the defining figure in Scandic design and one of Europe's greatest modern architects, focuses on his remarkable and loving partnership with wife, Aino. Theirs was a profoundly humanist vision that put people at the centre of design, and ranged from work in furniture design through to huge architectural projects. They mixed with, and influenced, major figures of modernist art and design including Le Corbusier, Gropius, Moholy-Nagy, and Frank Lloyd Wright. Come on a cinematic tour of their iconic buildings all over the world, from a library in Russia, a student dormitory at MIT, an art collector's private house near Paris, to a pavilion in Venice. Narrated by experts in the field and featuring never before seen archive footage, Aalto tells the love story of an extraordinary couple with a great passion for human scale architecture.
- Two friends, Yuri and Sergey, are police officers, only the first serves in the homicide department, and the second fights corruption. Yuri's wife is ill, and for the sake of saving her life, a man goes for an official crime. The comrade begins to guess about his fraud and is going to expose him as a criminal.
- 2 locksmiths find a flash drive at an old warehouse. One of them activates the flash drive at a computer and opens the shocking world of mysterious creatures, broken lives and violence.
- 1927 Trans-Siberian Express. Secret documents that will determine the future of the USSR and China are being transported across Russia. Under the guise of ordinary passengers, foreign intelligence officers and real thugs are hiding, ready to do anything for the sake of documents. A young Red Army soldier and a former Tsarist agent have to team up to uncover a common enemy.
- The film is based on the true story of Captain Marinesku and set in 1944 during WWII at the Russian Navy Base. Young and beautiful Tanka is in love with Aleksandr Marinin, the brave Captain of the Russian submarine. He is under the KGB surveillance, and his life is at risk. He takes his boat to fight the Nazi fleet, and he cannot come back home without a victory.
- "Sixth Part of the World" was the size of Soviet Union of the time. Many peoples of many customs composed it. Ice and desert, forest and ocean. Bread, furs, machines. All and every is a part of great unity.
- A searing examination of the unrelenting Chechen conflict, observed through the prisms of a Russian military boys academy, a war-torn town and a children's refugee camp.
- A myth about ship is of fundamental ones in the Western culture. Film-lecture "Catalogue of Ships" is an attempt to draw the history of this myth in all details. It's made of fragments from classical masterpieces of painting, music, cinema, and poetry that were devoted to this universal image.
- Captain Artenyev is in love with a beautiful lady-spy Klara.
- Biopic about Niccolo Paganini. He receives training from his father in early childhood. The best teachers of Parma are unable to give him more, so Paganini turns to a daily 15 hours of rigorous self-training. He makes sensational concert tours in Vienna, Paris, London and many other cities of Europe. He is always playing from memory, wearing black, and his stage appearance supports the rumors of his supernatural abilities. He is a wealthy man, but gambling and reckless spending forces him to pawn his violin. He is given a Guarneri violin by a wealthy listener to keep. He later gives this violin to the city if Genoa. The Paganini's violin is played by Leonide Kogan in this film.
- The film is based on a true story of a sport star Bobrov, who happened to become befriended by Vasili, the son of Stalin.
- Summer 1944 in Finnish Karelia; after a long lull, the Soviet army launches an overwhelming offensive that throws everything into disarray. Martta has barely time to marry Aarne before she is evacuated with relatives Hilkka who has just given birth to a son Helmi Elisa, the children, and their grandmother. In the confusion of the retreat, the women try to hold together and cross the paths of Aarne and Arttu, the only surviving brother of war-widow Helmi Elisa. Implacably, war takes its toll of suffering and death among civilians and soldiers.
- It's a country of contradictions, where love and sex clash with customs and patriarchy. Where traditional values and large families are glorified but 40% of children grow up without a father and domestic abuse isn't a crime. Welcome to Putin's Russia.
- Black and White is the story of Lisa, a young Soviet emigre studying medicine in Manhattan, Roy, an African American building superintendent on New York's Lower East Side, and the bond that they form from living on the edges of Manhattan. Filled with an assortment of fringe artists, disenfranchised immigrants, diamond dealers and sexual surrogates, the film is ultimately about breaking down barriers between people.
- Schoolboy Maksim meets an extra-terrestrial boy named Gum Gam. He came from the Blue Planet, where children are playing with toys instead of going to school. Gum Gam's mission is to deliver toys for the children of Earth.
- Elena Mihailovna, having worked all her life in the only school of a provincial town, lives modestly in retirement. Unexpectedly she learns of a fatal diagnosis, which can at any moment end her life. Instead of an unbearable anticipation, she resolutely begins the preparation for her own death, in order to simplify the procedure for her son. She has not seen her only son for over five years because he works in the capital. Oleg is constantly busy, and he does not have time for his lonely mother. At the same time with all the new problems, the heroine receives as a gift a huge carp, which changes her life.
- Tells the story of a cadet's life at a military academy in the years before the October Revolution. The training is idealistic, yet brutal.
- Have you ever wondered how your old schoolmates are? Perhaps the guy next to you, who is doing time in jail at the moment, still thinks you are his best and only friend. Perhaps your first crush might've been interested in you all these years but was too afraid to tell you that. Perhaps, if it were not too late already, the bullied one would've done everything differently. WHAT BECAME OF US is a film about class reunion. It's a film about three things that have forced childhood friends to face each other and their common past once again, despite the consequences: fear, love and the debt of gratitude.
- Epic film about life of three generations in central Russia on the Volga river.
- Krasnaya strela (The Red Arrow) is the special train No.1 between Leningrad and Moscow. The film is set in the 1980s during perestroika in the Soviet Union. Kropotov (Lavrov) is communist CEO of a big industrial company in Leningrad. He is crafty and successful in getting a major order from the Soviet Government; building an automated assembly line. But his style of management clashes with his subordinates, talented engineers. Their potential is strangled by Kropotov's manipulative control. The government order is not accomplished and Kropotov gets fired. He is rethinking his outdated business style while on the train No.1 to Moscow.
- Mariya gets lost in the forest and under mysterious circumstances ends up in a purgatory haunted by demon, evil doppelganger and ghosts of her own misdeeds.
- What is the Russian death? Author of the film walking at different cemeteries and search answer at this question.
- In the days of Shakespeare the whole world was a theater, in our own days he was captured by a television. The purpose of the TV is to make stupid zombies out of people and take out your brain, with which it perfectly manages to this day.
- Evening. Mark Shagalov wrote review, when somebody strange opened the door and entered.
- Many thousands of years after the calling of the Satanist, an ancient evil, named Metron, is reborn. There is no salvation. There is almost no one to oppose him. Only one person can kill it.
- Film is set in 1906 Finland, which was then a province of Russian Empire. About the military uprising in the Russian garrison of the Sveaborg fortress.
- Year 2006. At the island of Konevets in Leningrad oblast the ghost of black monk asleep after 70 years of silence. Konevets monastery is in dangerous. Nobody knows who will be next.
- First documentary about history of vegetarianism in Russia.
- Lead character goes to abandoned house in the village Mandrogi. He wants only to look on it, but spirits of the house isn't want to see him.
- Ancient Slavic creature named grandmother Yaga (Baba Yaga) lives in the Russian forest. She is conductor between world of lives and dead.