Aleksandr Zhigalkin

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Aleksandr Zhigalkin

Born February 1, 1968 · Moscow, USSR [now Russia] (age 58)

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There is Only a MiGThere is Only a MiG · 2025
There is Only a MiG
★ 3.52025
MovieWarComedy
1944. After the hospital or because of problems with vision and speech, several officers are "written off" to a false airfield. The Nazis take this airfield for the real one, and pilot Ivan Polivanov learns about it at the most inopportune moment.
The Lion's ShareThe Lion's Share · 2001
The Lion's Share
★ 6.02001
MovieActionCrime
They were once a special unit of the FSB, carrying out particularly important missions. But after one unsuccessful operation - a portable nuclear charge was stolen - they were dismissed from service and narrowly avoided prison. However, all unfinished business sooner or later begins to create big problems - the "lost" charge turns out to be in the hands of bandits. And now a successful businessman, a private bodyguard and a drunken unemployed again unite in one team to return the old "debt". From the very beginning, events unfold contrary to the plan. Heroes are under the tight control of criminals, and it can only be due to betrayal...
VolchokVolchok · 2025
Volchok
★ 6.52025
MovieComedyAdventure
Thirteen-year-old nobleman and orphan Vanya Ogarev flees from Moscow to Nizhny Novgorod, fleeing assassins sent by his own uncle, who decided to take possession of the boy's inheritance. To protect himself, Vanya hires a random fist fighter named Volchok.
The Nutcracker and the MousekingThe Nutcracker and the Mouseking · 2004
The Nutcracker and the Mouseking
★ 6.42004
MovieAnimationFamily
The fairytale story revolves around a young prince who - along with his entourage - is turned into a nutcracker through his own ungrateful and selfish behaviour, and awaits a kindly soul who'll release him from the spell. The mouse-king seeks the magic that made this happen so that he can become all-powerful. The prince (now a nutcracker) finds hope in the form of a girl who risks everything to help him become real again, while the mouse-king and his armies do everything they can to steal the magic for themselves.
The Man from NowhereThe Man from Nowhere · 2023
The Man from Nowhere
★ 6.52023
MovieThrillerScience Fiction
In 1960 a secret rocket launch occurred, preceding the first manned flight into space. The spacecraft is damaged before it enters the orbit and crashes in the remote, frozen part of the world. After he comes to his senses, he realizes that it is the year 2023, and he remembers almost nothing about his life before flying into space. His only memory is the image of a girl from the past. He knows her, but she doesn't know him...
Return of the "Battleship"Return of the "Battleship" · 1996
Return of the "Battleship"
★ 4.51996
MovieComedyAdventure
The naive hero, having read clever books, marries a prostitute with the aim of re-educating her and collides with the famous Sergei Eisenstein, ending in the most unexpected and fatal way...
Encore, Once More Encore!Encore, Once More Encore! · 1992
Encore, Once More Encore!
★ 5.81992
MovieDramaComedy
A drama set at the end of the Forties and the beginning of the Fifties. In a distant garrison town, life proceeds at a measured past. The officers drink and debauch, while the soldiers serve. Meanwhile accidentally unleashed human emotions are suffocated by the atmosphere of cruelty and hypocrisy.
The Italian ContractThe Italian Contract · 1993
The Italian Contract
★ 4.51993
MovieMusicRomance
The Italians, conquered by the Tatar singer's skill, offer him a contract. By the will of circumstances, Renat gets first to Yalta and only then on the yacht of a drug dealer to Italy. Here the hero finds himself in prison, meets an Italian beauty and is carried away in a hot air balloon...

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Force MajeureForce Majeure · 2019
Force Majeure
★ 8.02019
SeriesComedyCrime
The story unfolds at a private clinic in a provincial town, where a local mobster is undergoing an illicit plastic surgery procedure to completely alter his appearance. Despite strict confidentiality and security measures, a hitman manages to slip into the patient's room and administer a lethal injection to the crime boss. Vitya, a male nurse on the night shift, hears a commotion in the room and finds the patient convulsing. He administers a painkiller, but the mobster immediately passes away. Convinced that the patient’s death was caused by his own medical error, Vitya turns to his loyal friend Artyom for help. Artyom proposes an unexpected solution—that Vitya impersonate the mobster, whose appearance has already been transformed—thereby dragging the young man into a risky scheme that will completely upend his life.

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