Anatoli Yefremovich Novoseltsev works in a statistics institution, whose director is an unattractive and bossy woman. An old friend of his, Yuri Grigorievich Samokhvalov, who gets appointed assistant director...
30-е годы. Вождь одобряет проведение медицинского эксперимента по перемене пола: «Родине нужны солдаты — будут солдаты. Родине нужны матери — сделаем матерей». Так колхозница Евдокия Кузнецова становится...
A naive girl from a provincial town, dreaming of becoming an actress, goes to Moscow to enroll in a theatre school. She fails at the entrance exams, however she meets new friends and experiences first...
By opinion poll of the members of the European Academy of Film and Television (1995), this motion picture was recognized one of the world’s ten best films (8th place). Its original title – "The Andrei...
Foreman Uncle Vova and Georgian student Gedevan accidentally found themselves on a strange desert planet, Plyuk, in the faraway galaxy “Kin-Dza-Dza”. The planet’s inhabitants looked like humans and understood...
Guest from the Future
Alice Seleznyova, a girl from the future, finds herself in our time (1984). Following her, the space pirates Krys and Joker Y get here, too, with most nasty pirate’s intentions....
The film is based on the great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin’s poem of the same name, which happens to be one of the most poetic and beautiful Russian fairy tales. In the midst of the wedding party of...
Russia, the Civil War years… A Red Army unit is conducting a reconnaissance operation in the sands of Central Asia. The group of gruffy soldiers includes one woman, Maryutka. She is one of the unit’s best...
The 1920s’ Civil War in Russia. In a small Southern town occupied by the White Guards, a film group from Moscow is shooting a salon drama under the title of “Slave of Love”. Invited to play the leads are...
One of the most popular and favourite films in Russia. The film follows at length the lives of two friends – Alexei Trofimov and Ivan Varrava. In the 1920s they served together at a frontier outpost, fighting...
This eccentric comedy directed by Leonid Gaidai includes 3 novellas united by the main character, cranky Shurik, who often finds himself in the most incredible situations. In “Partner” he is rehabilitating...
One of the best Russian films about the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. The “old men” in this squadron were no older than twenty, but those “wet behind the ears”, a reinforcement fresh from flying schools...
A screen adaptation of William Shakespeare’s tragedy. The somber Elsinore Castle that keeps secrets of many a crime is looming over the rocky coastline. Prince Hamlet once again puts the question: “To...
“Non-science fictional, not entirely realistic and not exactly historical film” based on Mikhail Bulgakov’s play “Ivan Vasilievich”. Inventor Timofeev (Demyanenko) has constructed in his regular Moscow...
A film epic about the 1917 Revolution in Petrograd. The Revolution’s headquarters at the Smolny Palace, where the plan for seizing power in Russia was masterminded; the historic salvo from the Aurora battle...
12 series (6 DVD) The twelve-part television series about a Soviet intelligence agent who infiltrated the Nazi Secret Service has become a cult film. For the first time since Chapayev jokes and literary...
This is a screen adaptation of the Shakespeare tragedy. King Lear had three daughters: Goneril, Regan and Cordelia. One day he banished and repudiated his youngest and most loved daughter. But the evil...
This cinematic expression of the author’s reflections is one of the best films of Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky. Its working title was “White, White Day”. Quoted in the film are some of the verses...
A screen adaptation of the novel by the great Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The 19th-century Russia. A poor student, Rodion Raskolnikov, commits a crime which is inevitably followed by pangs of conscience:...
This is the sequel to Alexander Rogozhkin‘s comedy saga about the perculiarities of incomrehensible Russian soul. Best friends: general Ivolgin, forester Kuzmich and Lyova Soloveichik have decided to go...
Should work with any player: PAL, NTSC, any region... “An absolutely untypical story, which could only occur on the New Year night” – is the subtitle of Eldar Ryazanov’s most popular film. This is a lyrical...
The film is based on the works by Russian writer Anton Chekhov. This is a picture of life of the Russian gentry in the late 19th century. Without a grain of sentimentality, the director reveals the moral...
This “Middle-Eastern”, or rather a Central-Asian action film, about the Red Army fighting the counter-revolutionary robber bands has become not only a cult movie, but also one of the favorites for several...
A tragic story of love and loneliness - this is the unknown life of the great Russian writer Ivan Bunin. The confused love story that involved Bunin, his wife Vera, the young poet Galina Plotnikova, opera...
Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix 1987
The day after the funeral of Varlam Aravidze, the mayor of a small Georgian town, his corpse turns up in his son's garden and is secretly reburied. But the corpse...
The film is based on the early stories by the outstanding Soviet writer Maxim Gorky. There are several interwoven love lines in this beautiful, poetic drama: of the proud beauty Rada who bewitched the...
The Golden Lion on Venice International Film Festival 1962
Golden Gate Award on San Francisco International Film Festival 1962
The first full-length feature film by the great Russian director Andrei...
The film is based on the play of the same name by Russian writer A.N. Ostrovsky.
The Snow Maiden is the daughter of Father Frost and the beautiful Spring. Her icy heart had known no simple human joys,...
This musical, beautifully costumed film is based on a popular Russian fairy tale. Once upon a time there lived a nice, sweet girl, Nastenka. Her wicked stepmother made her work very hard day and night....
Based on Pavel Blyakhin’s novel “Red Little Devils”.
This vivid comedy recounts the incredible adventures of four friends during the 1920s Civil War in Russia. The former student Valerka, the fun-loving,...
An Italian, Romano (Marcello Mastroianni, Best Actor in a Leading Role at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival), while at a European spa, falls in love with a young Russian woman. He leaves his opulent life in...
Former classmates meet before the camera of a television program. Slava is an architect, Anya a scholar, Marina an actress, Tolya a Navy officer… Only their class head, Nadya Kruglova, has not achieved...
Charodei (Russian: Чародеи, translations - Enchanters, Sorcerers, Magicians) is a 1982 Soviet romantic fantasy musical film directed by Konstantin Bromberg.
The film’s characters are residents of a workers’ dormitory in a provincial town. Some of them leave for big cities in search of happiness. Others wait and believe that happiness will come to them itself....
