Aleksandra Ursulyak

March 1965. In the heat of the Cold War, the USA and the USSR are competing for supremacy in space. What both superpowers aim for in this race, is to be the first to have a man walk in outer space. To accomplish that, no price is too high and no risk is too great. Now it’s up to the unlikely duo of a seasoned war veteran and a hot-headed test-pilot to fulfill this mission. Two men in a tiny spaceship, without proper testing, facing the complete unknown. They were supposed to do what no man has done before—and no man imagined what would happen next.

18 directors, 18 novels, 18 short stories about Moscow...

Post-WWII Russia, industrial city of Sverdlovsk. Former opera singer and mother to four children, Nina Levitskaya knows nothing about the fate of her husband. Communist party functionary Alexander disappeared almost a year ago and is now rumored to be in Moscow. With life becoming increasingly hard for the family, Nina decides to risk it all in hope of a reunion. She hastily sells everything she can, gathers her children, and sets out for the capital.

Leo and Tig set off on a journey to faraway Lake Baikal to bring back home the lost seal pup named Lufi. Along the way, they make new friends with Zhu, a red panda, and Wukong the Monkey King. They also cross paths with the evil chieftain of a horse herd Tengri-Khan, who wants to seize the seal. For whoever brings Lufi home will be granted any wish by the Master of Baikal – the great dragon Lusud.

Young Oksana puts her newly born Denis in a baby box. Sixteen years later she steals him away from a children's home, intent on making amends for her maternal neglect, and to exploit him to earn money in a corrupt legal system.

A Russian remake of the '80s cult classic "Commando", where a retired special forces operative has to go on a final mission to rescue his daughter from the clutches of his old nemeses.

A lonely girl with a scythe appears in a Moscow street on New Year's Eve.

Anya, an exemplary housewife, devoted her life to taking care of her family. Relatives are used to the fact that mom is always alone at home with three children, while dad Sasha disappears at work. One day, offended by her husband's inappropriate antics, Anya decides to leave him with the children and find a job, starting an independent life. It doesn't work out all at once. And at this time, the children, being alone at home, make a real commotion.

In the search for a single good person in the province of Sezuan, three gods finally find only poor street girl Shen Te, whom they reward with a large gift of money. Now wealthy, Shen Te is now so exploited by all men that she has no choice but to slip into the shoes of her hard-hearted cousin, Shui Ta. Accused of murdering the missing Shen Te, the supposed Shui Ta confesses his dual role and the gods avoid a conviction. But Shen Te aka Shui Ta is now abandoned by all humans and also by the gods – helpless in the world.

The major of special forces Ilya is young, beautiful and, we can say, happy! He marries, and for him it is a profitable party — his wife is not beautiful, but the daughter of rich parents. However, on the wedding day begins a nightmare. Yana Yanovskaya — the former mistress of Ilya who came to congratulate him is killed, and he is suspected of murder. The investigation begins, during which it turns out that Ilya is innocent. However, the shadow of suspicion still hanging over him, and, wishing to prove that he is innocent, Ilya begins his own investigation. He finds the real killer — and this discovery will stun him…

A difficult night for everyone at the mobile police group — Ermakova and Mosin. First their car was struck by three bandits, one of whom died, and two escaped. Soon the body of the second criminal inexplicably appeared in a Luggage carrier of patrolmen, and with it the bag filled with money. Around prowling suspicious people, and certainly the third thug among them. But who killed the other? Entangled in the dark streets and mutual suspicion, the characters find themselves in a ring of enemies, where they are waiting for an unexpected bloody denouement…

Moscow in a not so distant future where human beings share their daily lives with robots. Georgy, a forensic who has a robot assistant, suddenly finds himself caught up in the first murder committed by a new kind of experimental humanoid.

Ksenia has ambition, lots of it. She wants to make it big in hospitality. Chasing her goal she comes to Moscow where she meets a new eccentric hotel owner of The Grand hotel. Not someone to let the truth stand in the way of an opportunity, Ksenia presents herself as a professional, ready for a management position. Her lies are caught out and she’s packed off to the rather unglamorous laundry to begin her career in hospitality. Will Ksenia be able to tame her adventurous nature and to fit into the tight-knit hotel team at The Grand? Or will she blow it?

The Masked Singer (Russian: Маска, romanized: Maska, lit. 'Mask') is a Russian reality singing competition television series based on the Masked Singer franchise which originated from the South Korean version of the show King of Mask Singer. It premiered on NTV on 1 March 2020.

A story of three estranged sisters, Irina, Olga, and Maria, who are brought back together following their father’s death to run his car service business. It was their father that had driven them apart, but now they must resolve their issues in order to manage a team of forty men in a business they barely know or understand. The situation is further complicated by the fact that the sisters are very unlike. Irina is a self-made businesswoman from Moscow, Olga is an airy and impractical literature teacher from a small town and Maria is a hairdresser from Saratov, who dreams of earning a lot of money but is forced to live with her alcoholic husband.

Zakhar is the head of a big family who spent all his life living in a village in a private house. He is also the only one who refused to sell the land for the construction of a new residential complex. After all, not only his right to private property but also his happy memories are under threat: the old forest he knew since he was little was cut down, and the pond where he used to fish with his father was drained. Moreover, his grandson fell in love with the developer's daughter! While life seems to fall completely apart, Zakhar, together with his family, decides to stand his ground to the very end against urban developers, dissatisfied tenants of the newly built high-rise, and total injustice.

The action takes place in Victorian England in the last quarter of the 19th century. 27-year-old amateur detective Sherlock Holmes becomes a bystander to a crime along with Dr. John Watson, a military doctor who has just returned from the war in Afghanistan. During the investigation, Watson, not yet having an apartment in London, settles with Holmes in Mrs. Hudson's «half board», and then takes part in the affairs of his new friend. Watson gives Holmes boxing lessons. Watson himself is an experienced boxer, able to deal with several opponents with his bare hands. In addition, he is an excellent marksman. Considering Holmes a genius, the doctor decides to tell the whole world about his talent and the mysteries he revealed in his stories, where he often embellishes the events («the true story» of which the series presents). Watson is taught to embellish events by the editor-in-chief of the «Morning Chronicle».

Every day of Roma and Zhenya's teenage brothers goes the same way, on the machine: alarm clock, study, cigarette behind the garage, a warehouse with weapons ... wait, what? The guys decide that this is a chance to quickly cut down easy money, because all you have to do is sell the machines on the darknet. But where there are weapons, there are dangerous people — that's where the fun begins. Very soon, all the residents of the town are involved in the story: single mother Svetlana, pawnshop owner Albert, tattoo artist Lelya, policeman Basov, his blogger daughter Milena, as well as the capital's bandits.

At the center of the story are two couples of young people with relationship difficulties. Poliamor Georgiy does not know how to explain to his new beloved Alice that she will never be his only one. The marriage of another couple - chef Sergey and accountant Elena - is bursting at the seams: after the pandemic, Sergey's business collapsed, he fell into a deep depression and wants - literally - nothing. Georgiy proposes a plan to his wife Elena: together they open a bar called AMORE MORE, where they will hold parties for couples. Sergey will return to work, Alisa will be able to reconsider her attitude towards polyamory. But the plan collapses - real feelings interfere in the matter.

Leo and Tig are two young friends living in the wild nature of the Far East. They are always excited to discover something new in the world around them with its beauties, dangers, and legends.

A group of work colleagues miss their flight by accident and avoid a plane crash, which prompts each of them to consider the paths their lives have taken and their unrealised dreams.

Unsuccessful actor Alexey Vyazintsev learns that his father was killed under mysterious circumstances. Alexey travels to Shironino, his father's hometown, to sell his apartment, but instead finds himself embroiled in a series of dangerous events. Locals believe that the books of the long-forgotten Soviet writer Gromov have magical properties. Each of these books gives a specific effect: Rage, Patience, Power, Joy, Strength or Memory. The secret world of readers of Gromov's books is divided into Libraries that hunt for books all over the country and are ready to kill competitors for the sake of their strength. Vyazintsev will have to become a part of one of the Libraries, reveal the secrets of his own family and go in search of the rarest of magical books — the book of Meaning.

Within one day, Alice's life changes. Her husband, prosecutor of the Leningrad region Pyotr Filippov, becomes the hero of several high-profile scandals. The reputation he had built for so long was destroyed. Now Alice must provide for the whole family herself. Years later, she returns to her legal career and begins work in the law firm of her university friend Vitaly Kalinin.

This is a story about commitment and dedication to one's talent which resonates with the difficult topic of the mother's love deficit that is relevant for many.

Ivan, who just turned 50, has two daughters: the eldest, the heroic Mary, and the youngest, the novice sorceress Sophia. Everything in Belogorie goes on as usual, but the visit of the sorcerer Severin, who dreamed of a terrible disaster, brings confusion to the measured life of wizards. To save both Belogorie and her own father's life, Sofia will have to go to Moscow of the past, where a young and unsuspecting Ivan still lives, and Marya will have to fight evil in the city itself.

Zhora, along with his parents, moves to another city, where he cannot establish relations with classmates in any way, and teachers openly find fault with him. Tired of enduring total injustice, Zhora decides to fight it, and in a non-standard way: a student puts a helmet with a camera mounted on his head and begins broadcasting everything he sees at home and at school to the Internet.

Somebody founds a body of 40-year old woman in the park in Moscow. Police closes the case thinking that she died by natural causes. But her husband Sotnikov, who is a financial analytic and mathematic is sure that she was murdered. Having no legal or medical skills, he starts his own investigation and finds the proof of the murder but also he finds out that his wife had an affair.

Anton Ageev is an operative with one of the highest detection rates in the city, which is why the leadership turns a blind eye to his harsh, quarrelsome nature and unusual manner of work. And only Kira Kirillova, who appeared in the department 5 years ago, was able to find out the truth about the reclusive Ageev. But one day a murder occurs, which Ageev and Kira witness. Watching the video of the moment of the murder, Ageev realizes that Kira is involved in the case and is hiding something.

Shtapich got a family early and also lost it quickly, managed to put an end to his career and was already out of work at the age of 25. Once in the search and rescue squad, he gets the opportunity to realize himself in a new professional environment and acquire not just friends, but like-minded people ― people who are truly passionate about their business.

The head of special operations of the FSB, Denis Krechetov, receives an important task — to catch and deliver to Russia a hacker nicknamed Prism. After she steals the formula for a secret chemical weapon, she is hunted by an international arms dealer and American intelligence. Denis finds out the location of the Prism and goes there with his squad to intercept it. However, unexpected difficulties arise during the operation and Denis has to face a difficult choice — to act in the interests of the Motherland or to save his family.