Aleksandr Khvan

When you love, your life changes beyond recognition. When you are loved, you may not even suspect it. But if your life turns into a continuous nightmare, if every minute you are waiting for news of the death of another loved one - such love cannot be overlooked. It is only necessary to calculate the lover. And as soon as possible.

Masha, who works for a radio station, and Maxim, a street sweeper with an architectural degree, cross paths with each other when they are at an indecisive point in their lives.

Anthology film in two parts based on Ray Bradbery's stories "The Black Ferris" and "The Scythe".

Crickets, It’s Your Turn is a darkly absurd feminist parable in which a young photographer’s private theatre of imagination begins to invade reality. Merey enters a mountain house governed by hierarchy, male solidarity and the logic of the strongest. She follows another logic: beauty, play and creation. Through white-room tableaux, grotesque humour and deliberate ruptures between realism and theatre, an ordinary gathering becomes a study of collective complicity. The danger comes not from a single monster, but from reasonable men who protect one another until violence becomes ceremony.

Kristina, a student at an English university, comes on vacation to the house of her father, a successful businessman. A man has long lost his wife and introduces his daughter to his new love Natalia. However, the flighty, spoiled, accustomed to luxury and easy money, Kristina does not want to accept her.

The history of the confrontation between two worlds: the Grand Duchy of Moscow and the Ural Parma, the ancient Perm lands inhabited by pagans. Here heroes and ghosts, princes and shamans, Voguls and Muscovites will clash. At the center of the conflict of civilizations is the fate of the Russian prince Mikhail, who fell in love with the young Tiche, a witch-lamia capable of taking on the form of a lynx. Passion for the pagan and fidelity to forbidden love, a campaign against the Voguls, bloody battles and a short peace, the battle between Muscovy and Parma, the hero will face trials in which it is not so terrible to part with life as to commit treason.

A young Russian girl is in love with show business and wants to leave her small town for Moscow and make it big in the big city. She encounters her long missing, remarried father and gets a boy friend who uses her and then leaves her.

Two childhood friends, and if you're being honest, then two trash with a criminal flavor get into a situation in which long-term friendship is not taken into account. What kind of trash is "trashier", the one who is trying to throw a friend for a certain amount of bucks, and in a very primitive way (they say the money was stolen while he was driving), or the one who, in an effort to return the money, takes the wife and child of his sidekick and companion hostage?

Evgenia, a metropolitan woman with a strong character, works as the head of the investigative department. After the divorce, she built a protective "shell" and cannot find a worthy companion. Kostya is a milker on a farm in a small village. His personal life is also not going well, and it seems that no changes are expected. By chance, the characters get acquainted on a "Blind Date", where Zhenya appears to be a kindergarten teacher, and Kostya is a rich entrepreneur. Deception entails a lot of incidents and contradictions, and the further it goes, the more difficult it turns out to get out of it..

Vera and Vasya are students of the Pedagogical University. At first glance, they are so different – an excellent student and a boxer. But they have something that brings them closer – this is faith in love, in friendship, in a person. Very soon Vera and Vasya realize that they love each other. But not everyone is happy about their happiness.

Young architect Anna Zavyalova is betrayed by her lover. Pavel not only abandons her for a profitable marriage, but also appropriates her project. It is at this difficult moment that Anna meets pensioner Markova. This meeting forces the heroine to decide to fight for justice. Anna intends to return her project and help Markova get her rightfully assigned apartment.

Almanac of five short stories commissioned by ROSKOMKINO to celebrate the 100th anniversary of cinema.

Marina, a beautiful and talented professor's daughter, drags out a miserable existence. After the death of her father, she threw all her strength into helping her married lover Yuri to advance in the service. And after becoming dean, Yuri, in order to avoid gossip, left Marina as a laboratory assistant.

Homeless, all thrown Mephistopheles is suffering from idleness and boredom. In a market where you can buy everything - from gralic to books on Russian history, he manages to find the soul of a ballet dancer.

Police is investigating a series of explosions in Moscow subway.

A young and handsome prison guard falls in love with a beautiful lady-prisoner. She makes him hooked on sex and manipulates him into becoming a gang member. He kills and steals under her control.

Andrei's ex-girlfriend Tania (Anzhela Belyanskaya) has been constantly in danger of going to jail since he knew her. Their breakup was not his doing, and he is determined to keep her out of jail. Andrei (Oleg Menshikov) has a notion that, if he can raise enough money, he can smuggle her out of Russia into New York, where all will be well. While Andrei's grasp on reality may be tenuous, his ability to maneuver and scheme is unimpaired. He is a student filmmaker, and the kind of money he needs to save Tania with doesn't grow on trees. He begins raising funds by mugging men at public toilets, and graduates to stealing the drug money accumulated by more serious gangsters. After he has raised the money to accomplish his goal, his girl, the light of his life, confesses that she despises him, and then goes out and gets arrested.

The simplest Russian woman unexpectedly gets in the way of a violent criminal. She must at all costs give them the required (and for her just incredible) amount of money, otherwise her daughter is in danger. How to find a way out? Tormented by this question, she makes a difficult decision.

A detective-dramatic chronicle of love adventures of the famous Russian ballerina Olga Spesivtseva, nicknamed by contemporaries Red Giselle. It was Giselle who immortalized her name in 1924. It was "Giselle" that caused the psychic catastrophe in 1942.

Pavel Shnyrev is a professional killer. He has a lot of enemies and a lot of problems. He is rushing, he is driven... Pavel's mother goes to the hospital, from her he learns that his father is alive. Pavel goes to a distant village and finds his father. Pavel's father has been blind for a long time, but this does not prevent him from living. He is always accompanied by a faithful assistant – a guide dog. Another life opens up to Pavel - the villagers, their simple way of life, the cares of the father. The mother also arrives, pursued by Paul's enemies, to take her son to a quiet place to "sit out". But Pavel does not leave the old man like a blind man, having felt a guide in him.

Marina is over 40, she works as a dressmaker in an atelier, lives with her adult daughter Leroy, whom she raised and brought up alone. Mentally "giving up on herself," Marina does not notice that a client falls in love with her - a solid businessman Veligorov, only very shy...

Confident, determined, successful Oksana is realized not only in work. In her personal life, too, everything is fine. It was. Until Vera appeared in Oksana's office, concerned about the problems of her wards from a boarding school for minors. In addition, due to Oksana's fault, Vera was hospitalized. Verina's problems need to be solved urgently - and Oksana gets down to business, rolling up her sleeves. To expose corrupt officials, to find lost children, to cope with a teenage riot - this is the plan for the week. I have to call for help from my ex-husband, who still cannot understand why he is an ex. This is how this story begins, which will teach Oksana to believe, forgive and love.

A woman's view of the generation of thirty-year-old men, who fell to the lot of Afghanistan, and the "criminal revolution", and the drug wave, and AIDS...

Set in the Soviet Union in the 1930s, it tells the story of Sasha Pankratov, a student and loyal Komsomol member from the Arbat neighborhood of Moscow who is unfairly exiled to Siberia. As his family and friends, including his love interest Varya Ivanova, grapple with Sasha's sudden detention and departure, the series shows the growing fear and paranoia that gripped Moscow in the years before the murder of Sergey Kirov and the start of Stalin's Great Purge.

Few days before his retirement, an experienced chief investigator gets assigned a new case, where a corpse mysteriously disappears from the morgue. The mortician swears that the man, killed by a train while saving a woman’s life, just got up and left. The woman happens to be a well-connected neuroscientist and she wants to know what happened to her rescuer. The elderly detective and the young doctor make an unlikely duo and their terse relations often get in the way of the investigation. But to get to the truth they have to work together. Intricate plot lines mix three different stories that unravel the mysteries of hundreds of WWII soldiers’ deaths, and even a terrorist plot.

The black room. Enclosed space. The action unfolds as if slowly. You understand that every word, every gesture of the heroes have a special, secret, as yet absolutely incomprehensible meaning. But you feel: you can't miss a single nuance. There are two or three heroes in each novel. There is a real drama between them, which ends with an explosion. Sometimes figuratively, and sometimes literally. Time is continuous: there is no yesterday and tomorrow.

As a child, Liza Zaretskaya saw her parents die. She couldn't speak for two years after that and learned to hear people's thoughts. Liza grew up and became a therapist. Her daughter Dasha inherited her gift. Dasha has just graduated from school and wants to study psychology. Albert Kling, a friend of Liza's, is doing complex psychological research and performs tests on Dasha, much to Liza's displeasure. Suddenly Dasha's classmate Ksenya, who was also Liza's patient, goes missing. Police Captain Mikhail Zhikharev asks Liza and Dasha to help his investigation. Dasha's boyfriend Mitya, Kling's assistant joins the search. But Dasha goes missing too.

They are charming. They are lucky. They're devilishly resourceful. They are real professionals. This couple skillfully changes their appearance and styles, enters the image with great artistry and leaves no traces behind.

Anya, a kind hardworking girl, lives with her mother Irina in the village of Opushkino. Irina has been working tirelessly all her life to ensure a happy future for her daughter, but the family is barely making ends meet.

MURA operative Konstantin Troshin returns from the front after the victory in the Great Patriotic War and finds out that he no longer works in the police. The reason is a conflict with an influential general of the NKGB of the USSR. But Troshin cannot imagine his life without the police. He manages to get a job as a precinct officer in the most disadvantaged area of Moscow — Maryina Grove.

1979. In a seaside town, in a fishing port, Mikhail Fedorov, an investigator of the OBKhSS, dies under mysterious circumstances. His best friend and colleague Alexander Kostenko learns that Fedorov's death was not an accident. He was about to take up the investigation himself, but suddenly, without explanation, he was suspended. In search of justice, Kostenko flies to Moscow for an appointment with the Prosecutor General. At Sheremetyevo Airport, he becomes an unwitting witness to the illegal transportation of a large amount in foreign currency. Vigilant Kostenko initiates the detention and arrest of the "currency courier" - a senior employee of the Ministry of Fisheries Arkady Lipman. With his professional acumen, rare integrity and meticulousness, Kostenko attracts the attention of not only the leadership of the General Prosecutor's Office of the USSR, but also party officials and the leadership of the Ministry of Fisheries, who are directly related to the currency scandal…

The watchman is a joker of the garage cooperative, he is happy to tell funny stories from his life to the guests. He tells a variety of people who come to his lodge. By nature, he is such a philosopher, with an incomprehensible confusing past. He is an expert in many fields. And as the film progresses, it becomes clear that he understands art, philosophy, cinema, and is able to express his opinion effectively. And so he tells the guests different stories. And each story is a separate series, with its own beginning, culmination and denouement. And the main character unites all these stories. And an ironic attitude to all these events.

The village blacksmith was expelled from his native village. As a result, he finds himself in Moscow, more precisely, on Khitrovka. However, he does not submit to fate, but makes a career — becomes a millionaire breeder.

Maria and Andrey Bystrov are investigators of the Investigative Committee. After learning that her husband cheated on her, Maria meets with a former admirer to spite him. Soon she realizes that she is pregnant. The Bystrovs' marriage is collapsing, but they have to conduct a new investigation together. A businessman was poisoned. The poison was in a cake that his wife Elena brought him from work: she explains that the dessert was left to her as a gift by one of the patients. The suspect is quickly located. But when the case seems solved, a new drama occurs in Elena's life. It becomes clear that she has a secret enemy who has come up with a sophisticated revenge plan. But Elena can't remember who she crossed the road to.

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.

Country cottage. Bosom school friends — an investigator, a doctor, a rich housewife, a businessman, a drunkard and an actor, people of different professions and lifestyles, gathered to celebrate a modest date — 15 years since graduation. Suddenly, near the house, on a holiday, there appears ... a terrible crank bear. A shot rings out. The dangerous beast is dead.

The whole family rests on the shoulders of the young Ira Kalacheva. The girl studies, works, completely forgetting about herself, and this has long become familiar – both for Ira and for all the household.

Lyuba is a kind and modest girl, brought up in strict traditions. Since childhood, she has been unrequited in love with the handsome Rodya, a spoiled and selfish guy. Rodya sees in Lyuba only a friend and is infatuated with the local Greek beauty Aella, but the heroine patiently tolerates everything and continues to believe in happiness.

About young psychologists who open their own business - psychological trainings. But they help people with somewhat unconventional methods: their therapy is role-playing games, "performances" that clients do not know about. Despite the fact that these are certified specialists, their idea is adventurous.

The main character of the film is an actress. At the request of her investigator friend, she enters into the proposed circumstances and helps him find criminals.

After the death of his father, whose murder case remained unsolved, law student Denis Petrovsky decides to find and punish the perpetrators himself. After graduating from the institute, he voluntarily becomes a secret agent of the special services. At this time, his peer Sergei Kurlov is being forced to cooperate with the KGB. Two young men begin to carry out secret assignments. While one is working in the prosecutor's office, the other is infiltrating a commercial firm that is allegedly engaged in drug smuggling. Professional and personal interests of both are about to collide…

Elena, an Italian language teacher, once came to the conclusion that there is no more simple female happiness in her life. She is married, there used to be passion and love between her and her husband, but, alas, everyday life mercilessly ate them. Only daughter Katya keeps Elena from divorce.