Konstantin Kryukov

Russian army recruits complete training and take their posting in late 1980s Afghanistan, where the insurgents are slowly gaining the upper hand.

The story takes place in 18th century russia. empress elizabeth’s confessor, monk named Lavr, is exiled to a monastery in a haunted mountainous region, taking his secret ancient knowledge with him. Years later, the empress sends her godson Andrey to bring the monk back. Andrey travels to the ill-famed place and meets with Lavr, but before they can return to St. Petersburg they must face evil forces and creatures of the dark side.

Eleven comedic vignettes featuring conversations – some important, some less so – held in restaurants over coffee and cigarettes (how quickly time flies – cigarettes are banned in Russia’s restaurants now). The conversations are candid, and even veer into the territory of murder. In the final credits, the director apologizes to Jim Jarmusch, whose work (in the anthology Coffee and Cigarettes, which Jarmusch shot in pieces over many years) Oldenburg-Svintsov is clearly indebted to. Sex, Coffee, Cigarettes’s kinship with Jarmusch’s film extends to the fact that superstars play tiny roles in almost all of the vignettes.

Four good folks from schools got reunion in a summer café on the bank of River Moskva, and they had an unthinkable trouble to deal with check, though one of them is so rich. One by one, a friend left the table to find solution and everyone of them met with different stories. The rich one got caught, ended up in jail for a night with the help from other folks. Friendship never ends...

An elusive hater wages a destructive game behind the guise of anonymity. Their provocations gradually draw a wide range of people into conflict—from public figures to ordinary users. Online bullying extends beyond the virtual space and begins to impact real-life lives, destroying relationships, careers, and trust between people. While those around them try to understand who is behind this torrent of aggression, it becomes clear that exposing this person could have unexpected consequences for everyone.

About the life of a major guy who ends up in the army, rethinks his life and helps his grandfather save his house.

Set in the ground zero of gangster globalism and driven by a truly manic energy, Generation P is at once a comedy, a tragedy and a fantasy about the rise of a poet-turned-adman through Russia’s nascent advertising business during the Moscow roaring 1990s.

Artyom Golub was once a rich kid, confident his father would "solve" any problem. But life put everything in its place: after an accident, Tema joins the Airborne Forces. Upon his return, he works, raises his daughter, and tries to live by his conscience. Meanwhile, his grandfather, the legendary paratrooper Palych, grows apple trees and dreams of peace. However, businessman Vasiliy arrives in Podgorny, wanting to tear down the monument to the Liberator Soldier and build a shopping mall. Palych protests, then disappears. To save his grandfather and uncover the truth behind the conflict, Tyoma reassembles the paratroopers.

Yurka is a self—contained twelve-year-old schoolboy who is grieving the loss of his father. The ordinary course of his life changes when new students appear in the classroom — a brother and a sister. Together they will have to grow up and find out what true friendship is worth.

Vadim is an ordinary office worker with no prospects, desperate to somehow change his boring life. One afternoon, while pondering his life in a pub, a mysterious bartender offers Vadik a cocktail. Upon drinking this cocktail, Vadik's world is instantly transformed beyond recognition. He is now successful, attractive and interesting. However, Vadik needs to learn how to sustain this new mirage, once the cocktails run out.

As a result of mysterious circumstances, seventeen-year-old Olga from 2005 finds herself in 2024 in the body of herself, but already a thirty-six-year-old single mother. Having no experience of adult life, Olga behaves like a frivolous girl from the noughties, and dreams of returning to a carefree youth. But by the will of fate, she is forced to take responsibility for her high school son and play the role of a school principal, which she is completely unprepared for.

Unapproachable women, half a million dollars and four guys are to take part in a very funny game “Sexlotto” which is organized by an extravagant millionaire. The essence of the game is to seduce as many women as possible in the seaside resort within five days. Having received the task, the magnificent four rush into the battle.

Five real-life stories of Olympic athletes of Russia. Five stories which intertwined love, betrayal, friendship. Each of these victories worth hard work, respect and belief in yourself, in your family and to your country.

The boy doesn't remember his mother; she abandoned him and his father and moved to America. And the girl has no father. The children, behaving like adults, make the responsible decision to introduce their single parents and get them married.

Moscow, 1902. The famous director Konstantin Stanislavsky, in search of inspiration for staging a new play, decides to get acquainted with the life of the city "bottom". He turns to Vladimir Gilyarovsky, a recognized expert on the Moscow slums, for help.

A woman who works as a warden in a prison secretly aspires to be a singer. When an inmate posts a video of her singing online, she becomes a sensation and her desire to follow her passion intensifies.

After discovering a dark window which appears on the wall every midnight two boys decide to investigate the mystery of a dark room behind the window.

For Natia, firing bullets at her sister's head and narrowly missing is all in a days work. After taking over the family business, her sharp shooting act is the only thing keeping the declining Orbeliani Circus afloat. When a stranger and his dog drifts into her home town of Batumi, Georgia from the Black Sea, peddling his own act, Natia wonders if a change of fortune is finally on the horizon. As the circus's prospects begin to rise so do suspicions that the stranger is not who he seems. A fateful interaction forces changes upon Natia and she must leave her family to protect them from what she is becoming. Soon, she is traveling to a different city-by-the-bay, San Francisco, where confrontation and opportunity release a violent darkness rooting within her. Fighting against her loneliness and the rules of this new world, she is befriended by a troubled young artist with an innocent soul. Will this tenuous love lead her out of the darkness? Or, are they merely two halves of broken whole?

Polina has always been a skeptic. When her friends invite her to visit her psychic grandmother, she arranges her own exposure session there. As a result, the girl receives a magical prophecy, which causes her to have a series of failures in all areas. To regain her former life, and at the same time find a new love, Polina will have to risk everything she has left and defeat the higher forces.

A funny comedy about the unforgettable adventures of two young Moscow girls.

A modest girl Alena lives in the world, works in the library and dreams of playing Juliet in an amateur theater. She can not imagine that literally tomorrow her life will change dramatically. Faced on the street with a gorgeous blonde, she loses consciousness and ... wakes up in the hospital... in someone else's body.

The beginning of a new life in Moscow is going well for Alexey - until he gets into a lot of troubles...

Four novels of the film-almanac are united by a common theme - all the most important happens in reality, and not on the Internet. Politicians and housewives, students and stars, adults and adolescents all over the earth take millions of selfies every day. Perhaps these photos will remain a dead weight in the phone's memory, but sometimes they can change lives. However, the heroes of the tape do not suspect anything about it...

A funny story about the adventures of two tween sisters - TV star and boxing champion.

Seva and Oksana are over forty. They have three children, a large apartment in the center of Moscow, and both have established careers. An enviable life, they are an exemplary couple. Caught in the midst of minor conflicts, accumulated claims and low self-esteem, Oksana cheats on Seva for the first time in 20 years of marriage and ... confesses this to her husband. Instead of the inevitable drama, Oksana suggests that Seva try... an open marriage. Seva reluctantly agrees, because he himself has been living by double standards for a long time, he has a mistress, his youngest son's teacher. After all, it's a win-win for him. Spouses step into the uncharted territory of an open marriage — hello, freedom!

Ivan the Terrible is the most discussed Character in the Russian history. At the same time, Ivan is the most unsolved mystery of the Russian Czars. The scale of his political achievements has always overshadowed a living person, and the unparalleled cruelty that entered folklore literally ruled out the possibility of a more complex view of character. The series is an humble attempt to understand the origins of the actions of Ivan IV and look into the dark labyrinth of his soul. Ivan IV of Russia is gradually reborn into the same Ivan the Terrible - a cruel tyrant. And now rumors of his ruthlessness and violent temper are becoming true, and these changes in the character of the king are changing history. Enemies are approaching Russia - will the country be able to survive?

A well-known journalist is assassinated during the presidential campaign in Poland. The media pushes the narrative of Russian interference in the country's internal affairs, in order to support Silesian separatists and destabilize the situation. From a small spark, a geopolitical conflagration is ignited, capable of causing enormous damage.

Timofey Nazarov, the head of the colony in the remote taiga, still dreams of escaping to the capital — and is betting on cinema again. But Nikolai Videnin was released, and now Nazarov is transferring a new prisoner to his colony — the famous Moscow director Matvey Selyuzhitsky, who gets the nickname "Motor" and begins to reshoot iconic Hollywood action films.

After the unsuccessful attempt on the life of Baron Wrangel and the death of an intelligence agent, a new cunning plan is being developed to implement the "Crimean Mission". The best agent, Elena Golubovskaya, is appointed to this case. In Crimea, Golubovskaya appears already as El Ferrari - a gifted Italian poet. Her task is to eliminate Wrangel in order to demoralize the white movement, as well as control the operation to steal gold. Her plans are thwarted by Maximilian Ermler, a local newspaper journalist who turns out to be a British intelligence agent.

After celebrating his 35th birthday, time for Andrey begins to go in the opposite direction: every new day is the previous one for him. In order to return to the real flow of time, Andrey needs to correct the mistakes he made in the past.

Olga, a "self-made woman" who’d rather not gain than lose, she avoids risks and contact with the criminal world and law enforcement, seeing them as interfering freeloaders. The price of her company rises when mineral water is found on Olga’s land in property. The once-infamous crime boss wants to buy the land, but Olga won't do business with crooks. First, is persuasion. Then come threats. Her partner is killed, her son kidnapped. Despite she is not going to surrender. She gains 2 allies that have nothing in common: a former associate of the crime boss and an ex-cop, who are equally tired of living the gangster laws life. The only Olga’s hope now is the allies rule - “betray no one”. Seems that both single men are indifferent to her.

The main characters are five young girls who follow each other's lives on a social network. Veronica suffers from complexes due to excess weight, Ira is looking for true love, Olya is going through a crisis in family relations, Alyona is focused on creative realization, which is hindered by her husband, Dasha selflessly helps others, forgetting about herself. The desire to make their lives better leads them to the online marathon "Happiness is you!", which was launched by the psychology guru. But happiness is individual for each person, and universal advice does not always work.

Gosha, 20, who was born into a wealthy Moscow family, is "sitting out" his pants in the 4th year of medical university, but he really wants to become a director. One day, he tells his mother that he is quitting medical school and will go to film school. The mother is ready to let her son fulfill his dream, but only if he proves that he can live for at least three months without guaranteed financial support. As a result, adult life falls on yesterday's teenager: he needs, at least, to find a place to live and earn at least some money for food.

Colonel Alexander Volkov teaches at the Academy of the FSB, he is seventy, he is retired. Captain Igor Kamorin is an active operative, he is twenty-seven. Kamorin is a fan of electronic gadgets, while Volkov does not know how to use WhatsApp. Kamorin believes in progress and believes that Volkov's "tube brains" have become obsolete in the last century, while Volkov is sure that Kamorin's "clip thinking" is not even suitable for solving crossword puzzles. However, in tandem, these two will do the impossible: combine the old school and modern technology.

When genetic diversity became minimal and humanity was on the verge of extinction, the Heritage program was launched, designed to replenish the population. It was headed by bioengineers Alexander and Elizabeth Gordeev and geneticist Peter Sergeevich. A group of scientists spent a hundred years in cryogenic sleep in order to thaw healthy embryos in the future. However, scientists could not imagine what the first generation of new people and the last hope of mankind would turn out to be.

A Russian adaptation of the FXX show It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. It's Always Sunny in Moscow, and like the original, centers around four friends, who own a bar called "Philadelphia" in Moscow.

The main characters, the spouses Grigory and Raisa Groshin, live in the village of Zaprudy, their daughter studies at the regional center, and they themselves are engaged in farming, breeding steers. They live like everyone else, the old love is gone, money is constantly in short supply, and it's not easy to develop a farm because of crooked officials and bankers.