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- DirectorAndrey KonchalovskiyStarsAleksey TryapitsynIrina ErmolovaTimur BondarenkoThe film represents life in a godforsaken Russian village. The only way to reach the mainland is to cross the lake by boat and a postman became the only connection with the outside world. A reserved community has been set up here. Despite the modern technologies and a spaceport nearby the people of the village live the way they would in the Neolithic Era. There is neither government nor social services or jobs. The postman's beloved woman escapes the village life and moves to the city. Postman's outboard engine gets stolen and he can no longer deliver mail. His normal pattern of life is disrupted. The postman makes a decision to leave for the city too but returns before long with no certain reason. The script is based on real characters' stories. People from the village play their own parts in the film. The search for the protagonist lasted for over a year.
- DirectorAleksey FedorchenkoStarsIgor SergeevYuriy TsuriloYuliya AugPresent days. A man and his companion go on a journey to cremate the dead body of the former beloved wife, on a riverbank in the area where they spent their honeymoon.
- DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsLeonid BichevinIngeborga DapkunaiteAndrey PaninA drama that chronicles the civil war that raged after the 1917 Bolshevik revolution.
- DirectorAleksey FedorchenkoStarsNadezhda SmirnovaYana EsipovichRoman Mishin23 short stories about the Mari women. Stories joyful and sad, ridiculous and terrible. It is the movie ornament, the movie calendar telling about philosophy, traditions and today of the Mari people.
- DirectorBoris KhlebnikovStarsAleksandr YatsenkoEvgeniy SytyySakhat DursunovA satirical look at one day of an expensive restaurant. Based on the real life.
- DirectorAleksey FedorchenkoStarsIrina ErmolovaPolina AugKonstantin BalakirevTogether with five Soviet avant-garde artists, hero of the Russian revolution Polina Schneider travels to Siberia to 'civilize' the native Khanty and Nenets tribes, for whom interaction with foreigners is forbidden by the gods, through art.
- DirectorJos StellingStarsSylvia HoeksRenata LitvinovaDieter HallervordenThe Girl and Death tells us the impossible love story of Nicolai and the courtesan Elise. A love obstructed by materialism, wealth and death threat.
- DirectorKira MuratovaStarsGeorgiy DelievAlla DemidovaRenata LitvinovaA young piano tuner befriends two rich old-ladies, and plots, with the help of his girlfriend, to betray their trust and steal from them.
- DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsSergey MakovetskiyDinara DrukarovaAnzhelika NevolinaDariya 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.
- DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsViktor SukhorukovAnzhelika NevolinaEvgeniy MerkurevThe story begins when a young man with a head injury is released from the hospital and begins searching modern-day St. Petersburg for a room or a place to stay.
- DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsSergey BodrovViktor SukhorukovSvetlana PismichenkoAn ex-soldier with a personal honor code enters the family crime business in St. Petersburg, Russia.
- DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsSergey BodrovViktor SukhorukovSergey MakovetskiyArriving in Moscow, Danila discovers Konstantin dead and he sets out to avenge his death; a journey that leads him to Chicago and a whole new experience.
- DirectorLeonid GaidaiStarsYuriy NikulinNina GrebeshkovaAndrey MironovAn ordinary Soviet citizen accidentally intervenes into a huge operation of international criminal group that trades illegally obtained jewelry.
- DirectorKira MuratovaStarsAleksandr BashirovSergei BekhterevAleksandra SvenskayaThis celebrated director's "exquisite cruelty" appears front and center when the death of a stage actor turns a theatrical drama into a real one. Two in One's two parts, "Stagehands" and "Woman of a Lifetime," celebrate the psychological richness that lurks just beneath the surface of banal reality--if murderous stagehands, lascivious fathers and vengeful daughters can be described as banal.
- DirectorKira MuratovaStarsLena KostyukRoma BurlakaZhan DanielTwo young orphan siblings travel to Moscow in search of their missing father. Scared of being separated and sent to orphanages, they hope to reunite with the last link of their shattered family.
- DirectorKira MuratovaStarsOleg TabakovAlla DemidovaRenata LitvinovaAt the heart of this story there are Him and Her, two former schoolmates who haven't crossed paths for a long time . One day, he arrives into Her town and right away, from the threshold, to ask her advice about a mess he's got into: he's sincerely in love with two women at once . .
- DirectorKira MuratovaStarsSergey MakovetskiyLeonid KushnirZhan DanielA man goes to see his former schoolmate working at a boiler house and persuades him to burn in the furnace the corpse of his communal flat neighbor whom he has just murdered after a quarrel. An orphaned girl gets a job in the archives of the maternity home to find out the identity of her mother who abandoned her years earlier. She finds her, befriends her and takes the first opportunity to throw her into the sea. An old intellectual tries to explain to the neighbor's five-year-old daughter "all the abomination of her lumpen existence". The girl feeling hurt for her mother decides to poison the old man with arsenic.
- DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsRenata LitvinovaAleksandr YatsenkoDmitriy DyuzhevThree young friends have all they need for a sterling life besides money. The pursuit of them leads guys to Natella Antonovna. She'll show them luxury life. Unless, one surprise is going to turn up...
- DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsMikhail SkryabinYuriy MatveevAleksandr MosinThe film, set in the mid 1990s outside of St. Petersburg, tells the story of an ethnic Yakut, Major Skryabin, a shell-shocked veteran of the Afghan-Soviet War, who works as a stoker.
- DirectorViktor ShamirovStarsGosha KutsenkoViktor ShamirovAleksandra Petrova31th of December. Moscow impossible traffic jams. Haste without results, help from which no one becomes easier. Conversations about the endless little things in which life passes - and maybe already passed. About the father, to whom nothing is left, and nothing can be done. About the plans of a thirteen-year-old girl to live: you can become an oncologist, you can - a food designer. About what was, and what now.
- DirectorIvan I. TverdovskiyStarsMariya PoezzhaevaFilipp AvdeevNikita KukushkinLena is a bright, disabled girl who, after years spent studying at home, is keen to get back to school. She is assigned to a special class for disabled pupils who have to present themselves before a school commission at the end of the year in order to prove that they merit being moved back into a "normal" class. Her enervated teachers, however, show absolutely no desire to motivate the students and help them improve; on the contrary, they try to quash right from the start any interest Lena shows in more complex study material. Nevertheless, Lena soon involves herself in the school routine and gets together with classmate Anton. Yet their transparent happiness is not to everyone's liking and repercussions soon follow.
- DirectorValeriy TodorovskiyStarsChulpan KhamatovaDina KorzunMaksim SukhanovAlyosha has a gambling problem and his girlfriend becomes a stripper to help pay off his debt.
- DirectorIlmar RaagDmitry ShelegStarsPolina PushkarukVika LobachovaAndrey AstrakhantsevA young woman who grew up in orphanage is longing to be loved, but does not have it in her to love others. Her teenage looks help her while falsely accused of committing a crime to hide in a orphanage without arousing any suspicion. There, she meets a 13 years old homeless person like herself, Kristina, and together they set out on a long journey to a small town in Kazakhstan, where Kristina's grandmother lives...
- DirectorMike LernerMaxim PozdorovkinStarsNadezhda TolokonnikovaMariya AlyokhinaYekaterina SamutsevichFollows the court case of three members of the Russian feminist punk protest group Pussy Riot after their performance in a Russian Orthodox cathedral.
- DirectorAleksandr SeryyStarsEvgeniy LeonovGeorgiy VitsinSaveliy KramarovIt so happens that peaceful kindergarten teacher is incredibly similar to the terrible villain who stole the helmet of Alexander the Great. And villain's accomplices are unexpectedly similar to children - they also need love and care.
- DirectorLeonid GaidaiStarsYuriy YakovlevLeonid KuravlyovAleksandr DemyanenkoAn ordinary Soviet building manager, living in the 20th century, looks like Tsar of All Rus' - Ivan IV the Terrible (1530 - 1584). He'd never known this, until his neighbor created a time machine.
- DirectorValeriya Gay GermanikaStarsPolina FilonenkoAgniya KuznetsovaOlga ShuvalovaLife is never easy, especially when you're fourteen. But some teenagers have to deal not only with their inner feelings and complexes and youthful maximalism, but also with the cruel surrounding reality.
- DirectorVera StorozhevaStarsRenata LitvinovaDmitriy OrlovInga Strelkova-OboldinaAn empty cafe. Two lonely people meet each other and after that, they're blind to everything and everyone. Their meetings are just short, stolen moments.
- DirectorRenata LitvinovaStarsOlga KuzinaTatyana DrubichRenata LitvinovaThree women, three states of mind, three eternal themes: love, death and the search for happiness. And one angel of death, accompanying the souls of those who are able to love to another world.
- DirectorAnna MelikyanStarsRenata LitvinovaKristina IsaykinaMikhail EfremovAbout men, about women, about essential reality of their relationships in bright and good looking Moscow. The whole film is the lecture about love like it is a child of chemistry and psychology. During this lecture we are watching through five or even more love stories about couples trying to pretend that relationship they have is special and outstanding. But the most valuable words said already at the beginning by the woman from the first couple: 'Let's go home. Will be living'. And these words mean the end of love. And the beginning the same time.
- DirectorOksana BychkovaAksinya GogNatalya KudryashovaStarsAnastasia ProninaNikita SmolyaninovArkadiy KovalPetersburg. A Selfie comprises seven novellas about the beautiful city of St. Petersburg, Russia, shot by female directors. The film tells a story of a real, living and breathing city, rather than a mythical phantasm. Each novella tells its own story about love and loneliness, luck and hope. The plots and characters in the seven novellas evoke memories of the delicate style of Leningrad cinema and the times when the old logo of Lenfilm Studios - the Bronze Horseman - ensured the viewer that what was about to unfold on the silver screen would bring a thought-provoking and ultimately human experience. A film about people made for people.
- DirectorAndrey ZvyagintsevStarsNadezhda MarkinaAndrey SmirnovAleksey RozinWhen a sudden illness and an unexpected reunion threaten dutiful housewife Elena's potential inheritance, she must hatch a desperate plan ...
- DirectorYuriy BykovStarsArtyom BystrovNatalya SurkovaYuriy TsuriloDima Nikitin is an ordinary honest plumber who suddenly decides to face the corrupt system of local politics in order to save the lives of 800 inhabitants of an old dormitory, which is about to collapse.