Artyom Bystrov

In 1944, a courageous group of Russian soldiers managed to escape from German captivity in a half-destroyed legendary T-34 tank. Those were the times of unforgettable bravery, fierce fighting, unbreakable love, and legendary miracles.

The Fool is a movie about a simple plumber. An honest man, he is up against an entire system of corrupted bureaucrats. At stake are the lives of 800 inhabitants of an old dorm that is at risk of collapsing within the span of the night.

After the devastating Spitak earthquake of December 7th, Konstantin Berezhnoy, a 50-year-old Russian, and Robert Melkonyan, a 28-year-old Armenian, work together to rescue the desperate survivors.

It takes one little big eared hero to bring back the sun and smiles to the adult world! Amazing adventures await a fluffy restless animal from a distant orange country when he gets to a small sea town. There he will find friends, home and finally a name. Helped – and hindered! – he will be by a unsociable old gardener, a strange fashionista aunt and her capricious granddaughter, a boy who can’t start talking in any way and his mother, who has a hard time, although she cooks the most delicious chocolate in the world. And many, many others, whose lives, along with the aroma of oranges, are about to burst into magic and adventure.

The final part of Mikhalkov's trilogy about Divisional Commander Kotov finds him returning home during World War II having been betrayed, narrowly escaped execution for treason and nearly reduced to dust in a prison camp. Only to discover that everything has changed and he will have to fight again for his name, for his honor, and for his love.

Sisters Maria and Anastasia are best friends, and they cope not only with a grumpy mother, but also with ancient magic, because of which winter has not come in their village for many decades. The girls manage to overcome all obstacles, drive away the evil witch, melt the heart of the Lord of Cold, and also find love.

100 years ago, the Russian Empire ... Christmas Eve. December plugs, holiday celebrations, balls and modest luxury holidays, titled nobles and ordinary peasants, the royal family and the soldiers of the First World War, progressive poets and the first skaters - everything was different, except ... the holiday. People prepared, lived, believed dreaming and waiting for this miracle - Christmas!

The protagonist is invited to take part in a video flash mob featuring a hundred famous actors. However, he begins to look for a deeper meaning behind it.

In the early days of the Great Patriotic War old Kuzmich from the village of Kurakino guesses that a long war lies ahead. As the village falls under German occupation and repressions intensify, he keeps aloof, arousing suspicions. Following the execution of fellow villagers and accusations of betrayal, Kuzmich agrees to serve as a guide for the German detachment, ostensibly to get a horse and save his family. In reality, however, he is planning a sacrificial deception: through his grandson Vaska, he conveys information about the enemy's route to the Soviet troops. At the critical moment, Kuzmich leads the German mountain troopers into a trap, repeating the feat of Ivan Susanin. At the cost of his own life the old man leads the enemy to perdition, becoming a symbol of the people's resistance.

Cheburashka gradually gets used to life with Gena, but like any growing child, Cheburashka begins to show excessive independence, and sometimes even become a hooligan. They live happily until their peaceful life is disrupted by an incredible event. In the second part, not only the already beloved heroes will remain, but also new, unusual characters will appear.

Late one night — two days behind schedule — the enigmatic Dmitry Zorin arrives at the climbers' base camp, immediately rubbing everyone the wrong way. No one knows who he is or what brings him there, yet as part of a ten-person amateur group, he is set to ascend the mountain peak under the supervision of three guides. The seasoned guides know that the weather is taking a turn for the worse and the expedition ought to be called off, but the desire for financial gain proves stronger. On the treacherous path to the 5,200-meter summit, blizzards, avalanches, wild animals, extreme cold, and internal conflicts await them. Yet danger is not the greatest obstacle facing Zorin and the others; for the closer they draw to the summit, the more starkly evident it becomes: one cannot escape oneself—the time has come to face one's fears and past mistakes head-on.

Igor, a senior manager at a furniture showroom, dreams of being promoted. One morning, after an office party, he finds the showroom completely trashed. The staff claim that when they left the night before, everything was in order. This is a disaster for Igor, whose career is now at stake. Trying to reconstruct the events of the fateful night, Igor learns some shocking details about his colleagues' nocturnal escapades...

An ordinary man’s life takes an unlikely turn when he saves the life of a high-ranking security officer in an accident.

What is to be a child to whom parents ask the same question every day: whom does he love more? Mom or dad? What should mom do if she madly loves her son, but circumstances force him to take the child away from his father? What should be done to dad if his son is taken to America forever, and he cannot imagine his life without him? This is a story of choice. When deciding for a child, a parent often does as he is comfortable with. The child agrees, afraid to hurt the parent, but time will pass, he will mature and at some point he will decide for himself. Only the parent from this will be much more painful.

Siege of Leningrad, 1942. Despaired Nina Voronova evacuates from the city, leaving her little son along in a deadly cold apartment. He is found by Katya, a teenage girl from next door. She claims he’s her brother, and manages to get extra food provision from the district administration. When Alexey Voronov arrives to the city, he realises this little boy is his son.

Sergei, always hanging out on business trips, dreams of being on a "desert island" with his beloved Masha. A pandemic that suddenly hit the world gives him this chance by locking his lovers at home in quarantine. “In a cage,” lovers, having gone through five stages of accepting the inevitable, are forced to get to know each other anew and accept themselves and the world around as it is. And everything would be fine if not for the invasion of aliens.

Young survivor of the siege Yura Tyukalov came to sports after the war, when it seemed he had no strength to live, let alone to conduct grueling training in academic rowing. But after meeting coaches Mikhail and Vera Savrimovich, Yura gets a second wind and starts life anew. Fates, burned by the war, unite in a team where everyone supports and inspires each other. Victories are not easy, but Yura has love, talent and a native team that is unstoppable: their goal is the Olympics in Helsinki.

Four best friends. They've been to war, they've seen life, but they are still passionate, young and willing to serve their country. They found their place at OMON - Russian Special Police Squad. They can count only on each other, and their real family is themselves. After working hours they become simple guys with ordinary dreams like family and comfort. But life changes when once in a night club the friends incidentally get in a fight with the local mafia. It turns out that they have no fear and they are ready to stand for each other whatever happens.

Nadya, a young girl from St. Petersburg, is living and learning in London. Suddenly she decides to pay an unexpected visit to her boyfriend Zhenya.

Olga, Katya, and Andrey have known each other since childhood. They moved to Moscow many years ago and have become successful. Olga is an actress, Katya works for a large-scale PR agency, and Andrey is a political analyst. They buy cars, take mortgages, build country houses. Just like everybody else. But their lives bring them neither happiness nor content. The feeling of "something's not right but I can't put my finger on it" underpins the lives of today's thirty-year-olds. Their childhood took place during the Soviet era, when kids dreamed of becoming heroes, believed in spy stories and a bright future. Yet nobody expected that the dream of becoming a hero would be replaced by the dream of stable and predictable existence. People have stopped dreaming of truly grand things. They just play their roles.

Vitya Kasatkin has an unusual hobby - he is engaged in Japanese sumo wrestling. His love for sumo was instilled in him by his father, who left the family 8 years ago and went to Japan. For many years, the boy has been living with one dream - to get to a youth tournament in Japan, in the hope that his father will see him, understand that he was wrong, and return to them.

An ordinary city boy comes with his dad to visit his grandfather in the village. There he is met by not very friendly local guys and a girl with whom he immediately falls in love. Grandfather constantly tells funny stories about his glorious military past, which open up a completely new, magical world for him, teach him the main values ​​​​of life and make a real man.

A 13-year-old albino girl nicknamed Muk, the only witness to the mysterious disappearance of a peer, falls in love with the main suspect, and goes from an outcast to a person on whom other people's fates depend.

Rita, a fragile-looking chemistry teacher, remains out of work for having connections with a student. But thanks to her skills, she manages to earn easy money by cleaning the cottage. However, this cottage turns out to be a crime scene, and Rita herself finds herself in the epicenter of criminal showdowns by local bandits. However, Rita is not so simple — all this time she has been living undercover on someone else's passport. A few years ago, she already had to flee from her native St. Petersburg to a seaside town to save her life. After all, Rita is the only living carrier of the formula that her pursuers really need.

About what leads to sex, and what happens immediately after it. In one of the novels, a guy agrees to have a child with his best friend, unaware of her insidious plan. In another, a casual acquaintance makes a vegan wonder if sex contradicts her beliefs. And the dispute between two strangers about feminism is resolved in bed, where a woman is not going to remain in debt to a man. The heroes of the stories tell not about sex, but about what surrounds it.

Half-brothers Yura, Ruslan, and Pyotr form a close family with their mother Flora. In 1995 Russia, greed and violence threaten their bond as they navigate underground clubs, fights, and the collapse of their once-secure world.

Sasha makes her living as a professional surrogate mother. Contrary to the usual practice, she moves in with her new customers until the baby is born. She finds herself in a different world — in the house of rich government official Vadim and his wife Marina. For them, Sasha is merely a “container” – their new toy. But what was intended as a safe way of caring for the future child turns out to be a test for everyone involved. Behind the luxurious facade of the elite hides unsightly secrets. And Sasha has a secret of her own. Container was selected by 2021 MIP Drama Awards, the annual premium drama showcase offering international buyers an exclusive first-look at a curated selection of the most anticipated series in production around the world.

Figure skater Ksenia returns to her hometown to finally find out the truth about the tragedy of a decade ago, when her figure skating partner died. Having become a children's coach at the same sports school, she quickly realizes that behind the brilliance of "elite sports" there is still silence, pressure and fear. Coaches maintain the illusion of well-being, parents nod approvingly from the stands, and children's destinies continue to break under the weight of other people's ambitions. In this world, injuries are inherited, and every family has secrets they don't want to talk about out loud. And it is among these carefully hidden "skeletons in the closet" that the answer lies — the one that Ksenia has been afraid of all these years.

A post WWII criminal drama, masterfully filmed and produced. Fantastic performance, great historical details and ambience immerse the viewers into the atmosphere of post-war USSR. At the same time, the show has a modern edge thanks to the detailed characters’ psychology and backstory. The war is over but the life is far from being back to normal. It is now the war on crime and Lieutenant Denis Zhuravlev must unholster his gun and protect the safety of civilians. He has to go undercover and become a member of a brutal local gang. He is in and he’s risking his life to stop the murders and heists, but then the plot takes a very dangerous, unpredictable turn. The project is a true gem for audiences worldwide.

Khabarovsk region. Taiga. Pavel Likhovtsev, a senior ranger and bear hunter, keeps an apiary in the taiga and brings up his eldest son Zhenya as a real peasant. However, with the advent of the nineties, the apiary is ruined. Pavel and his family are forced to go to Khabarovsk in search of a better life. At this time, in Khabarovsk, there is a redistribution of spheres of influence - all power and all resources are transferred to the OCG "Obshchak" - a gang that will soon become the largest criminal group in the world.

The early 1960s. The Soviet Union is experiencing a bright Khrushchev-era, full of hope. A group of young diplomats at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs come face to face with world-changing global events. Before long, these wide-eyed idealists find themselves deep in the breathtaking world of spy games, mortal dangers, and brilliant political maneuvering.

Three friends, three six-year-old children. And only one place in the best school in St. Petersburg. Poor, but smart and arrogant divorcee Tanya, a careerist and the wife of a police major Anya and the beautiful wife of a businessman Lena - for the sake of their beloved child, each of them is ready to risk relationships, friendship and even self—esteem.

Six friends are just starting their adult life. They fall in love, dream, and make plans for the future. When a tragedy strikes troubling issues and secrets are revealed, and their parents wonder if they know their children at all.

The life of Arina Alferova, an official of the regional Ministry of Health, is very prosperous: a nice apartment in the city center, a decent foreign car, morning styling, shopping trips to Moscow, jewelry, expensive shoes. After all, the head of the finance and economics department can afford something. And sometimes even more than that. Especially if your lover does business with the largest pharmaceutical company in the region. What's in return? Put a couple of signatures on the contracts. Carried away by her personal life, she does not notice what each of her signatures is worth. One day, a bitter reckoning will come too close to her — a loved one dies from fake pills. So the official decides to integrate herself into the corrupt chain in order to get to the very top — to the minister — and drown everyone.

On a snow-covered highway near the northern town of Kostomuksha, police find the frozen corpse of a woman in a frozen car. The victim is the wife of investigator Evgeniy Rudin. The rage that has taken possession of the hero leads him along the path of senseless cruelty, the victims of which can be both innocent people and those close to Rudin. Evgeniy finds unexpected support in the face of a strange boy Mitya. Meanwhile, the killings continue.

Anna, a plastic surgeon leading a perfect life, sees her world crumble when her husband's affair is exposed. Seeking revenge, she goes down a dark path with unforeseen consequences.

For a long time, Masha Roshchina, a young doctor, did not want to introduce her chosen cosmonaut, Andrei Izotov, to her mom and dad, especially her dad. Masha's father is police lieutenant Colonel Dmitry Roshchin, and Masha's chosen one detests law enforcement officers and treats them with irony bordering on hatred. The meeting of the parents and Andrei eventually takes place right in the wedding palace, and the wedding is disrupted. Masha sets a condition: the future husband and father should get along. Andrey, who loves a girl, gets a job as a police intern and, together with Lieutenant Colonel Roshchin, rushes in pursuit of the criminal Taktarov, who stole the American diplomat Harrison. The criminals manage to leave St. Petersburg, the case becomes international, and now all police forces are deployed to catch the adventurer holding the diplomat. Taktarov is heading south, with endless fun adventures ahead for the pursuers and the escapees.

Rita, a fragile-looking chemistry teacher, is out of work for having a relationship with a student. But thanks to her skills, she manages to earn easy money by cleaning the cottage. However, this cottage turns out to be a crime scene, and Rita herself finds herself in the epicenter of the criminal squabbles of local bandits. However, Rita is not so simple — all this time she has been living undercover on someone else's passport. A few years ago, she had to flee from her native St. Petersburg to a seaside town to save her life. After all, Rita is the only living carrier of the formula that her pursuers really need.

Moscow, 2014. Maxim Pozharsky, a successful financial analyst, helps already well-off people get rich. Without asking unnecessary questions, he just takes his course. But everything in his world changes when the only person close to him, Nina's sister, disappears in the Middle East and ends up in captivity.

In a Siberia village in the years following the war. Nastya, the most beautiful girl in the village, is waiting for her beloved husband to return from the frontline. The women sympathize her, but spread the rumors that Nastya is off her head out of head: she starts every time someone knocks on the door, hoping that her husband has finally found a way back home, or that at least there is some news of him. Expectation and faith are now the life for Nastya, her little son Misha and the father of the missing husband, Vasily Prokhorovich. A story of one family, a story of one village unveils the story of the entire country.

At first glance, the most ordinary provincial town of Veliky Guslyar is actually a unique point on planet Earth, where communication with parallel worlds and civilizations of other planets is open. Time travel, teleportation, talking animals, and parking flying saucers are commonplace for locals. The Gusliarians are so used to them that they hardly notice them.

The October Revolution hadn't happened, and the Bolsheviks had never risen to power. The year is 2023, and the rule over the Russian Empire is divided between tzar Nikolai III and a forward-thinking PM, Dmitry Orlov. Erast Fandorin, a 20-year-old police servant, has just been hired in the criminal investigations unit at the Petrograd Metro. His job is not that exciting, but the latest news is: right at the heart of the capital, a young and wealthy oil company tycoon has just shot himself in front of dozens of men. His suicide was captured on the patrol robot cameras. Fandorin can't help but suspect that this case is far more complicated than it looks and takes on his very first major investigation