Valentin Samokhin

The Master and Margarita

A writer in 1930s Moscow has his work banned and is expelled from the official union, leaving him without income. He then writes a novel about a mysterious dark visitor and gradually starts confusing his real life with the story.

Fidelity

A successful obstetrician living a seemingly stable married life begins to question her relationship when emotional and physical intimacy fades. Suspecting her husband of betrayal, she seeks connection elsewhere, stepping into a hidden world that offers desire, control, and escape. As she navigates this parallel existence, the boundaries between loyalty, loneliness, and self-discovery slowly begin to blur.

Russian Shorts. Vol. 1

Five unusual short stories. Two heroes are fighting for the heart of a mysterious beauty in the tragicomedy Olesya. In the parable "Milk" in the high-rise kitchen a real cow appears. The heroine of the comedy without the “Not Fit” dialogues is torn between the desire to lose weight by the alumni meeting and the modern food cult. The eccentric Rita Hurricane rushes into the life of the security guard of the Leo shopping center and changes it forever. And the hero of the story "Carpe diem" solves an important question - to lie or not to lie, when everyone around is lying.

Leo & Hurricane

A monotonous and predictable life of a supermarket backdoor guard is forever changed after an eccentric drag queen, named Hurricane Rita, with her daring escapades turns the guard's night shift routine into a night of exciting adventures.

The End

Director Mitya escapes from the set of the next television series. In this he is helped by the ghost of Marcello Mastroianni. The decision to escape launches a chain of events with the participation of Mitya's family and friends, which can only be unraveled by the answer to the question of what kind of director he wants to be: great, talented, or just normal.

The Scam

Andrei Davydov, a successful businessman and former physicist, plots an unprecedented scam aimed at causing a downfall on the world’s financial markets. He has no doubts that he will succeed, but speculating on an ecological catastrophe is a dangerous gamble. Especially when love interferes with his carefully thought-out scheme of the operation…

Ambivalence

Two friends, young psychiatrists, perceive life in different ways. One wants to do the right thing. The second is to experiment. One is a diligent student. The second is the troublemaker. One loves, hating. The second hates, loving. It's a pity that they have only one passion - Katerina Sergeevna. For one, she is Mom, Dad's wife. For another - a lover.

In Your Head

Ironic reflection about the power of our thoughts, of temptation and its overcoming. In secrecy from his girlfriend, a young man goes to a city beach with its seductive female visitors to take pleasure in the sun. Unexpectedly he learns that his dreams and imagination are all too obvious: the husband of one of the women accuses him of adultery. The hero, caught unawares and discouraged, manages to pay off the man. But it appears not only the jealous husband has seen the hero’s thoughts.

The Master and Margarita

A writer in 1930s Moscow has his work banned and is expelled from the official union, leaving him without income. He then writes a novel about a mysterious dark visitor and gradually starts confusing his real life with the story.

Fidelity

A successful obstetrician living a seemingly stable married life begins to question her relationship when emotional and physical intimacy fades. Suspecting her husband of betrayal, she seeks connection elsewhere, stepping into a hidden world that offers desire, control, and escape. As she navigates this parallel existence, the boundaries between loyalty, loneliness, and self-discovery slowly begin to blur.

Russian Shorts. Vol. 1

Five unusual short stories. Two heroes are fighting for the heart of a mysterious beauty in the tragicomedy Olesya. In the parable "Milk" in the high-rise kitchen a real cow appears. The heroine of the comedy without the “Not Fit” dialogues is torn between the desire to lose weight by the alumni meeting and the modern food cult. The eccentric Rita Hurricane rushes into the life of the security guard of the Leo shopping center and changes it forever. And the hero of the story "Carpe diem" solves an important question - to lie or not to lie, when everyone around is lying.

Leo & Hurricane

A monotonous and predictable life of a supermarket backdoor guard is forever changed after an eccentric drag queen, named Hurricane Rita, with her daring escapades turns the guard's night shift routine into a night of exciting adventures.

The End

Director Mitya escapes from the set of the next television series. In this he is helped by the ghost of Marcello Mastroianni. The decision to escape launches a chain of events with the participation of Mitya's family and friends, which can only be unraveled by the answer to the question of what kind of director he wants to be: great, talented, or just normal.

The Scam

Andrei Davydov, a successful businessman and former physicist, plots an unprecedented scam aimed at causing a downfall on the world’s financial markets. He has no doubts that he will succeed, but speculating on an ecological catastrophe is a dangerous gamble. Especially when love interferes with his carefully thought-out scheme of the operation…

Ambivalence

Two friends, young psychiatrists, perceive life in different ways. One wants to do the right thing. The second is to experiment. One is a diligent student. The second is the troublemaker. One loves, hating. The second hates, loving. It's a pity that they have only one passion - Katerina Sergeevna. For one, she is Mom, Dad's wife. For another - a lover.

In Your Head

Ironic reflection about the power of our thoughts, of temptation and its overcoming. In secrecy from his girlfriend, a young man goes to a city beach with its seductive female visitors to take pleasure in the sun. Unexpectedly he learns that his dreams and imagination are all too obvious: the husband of one of the women accuses him of adultery. The hero, caught unawares and discouraged, manages to pay off the man. But it appears not only the jealous husband has seen the hero’s thoughts.

Pagans

The drama based on hidden implicit faith in miracle unfolds between the members of the family with an unhappy love story of a desolate teenage girl who tries to withstand this family madness after their devotee grandmother came to their flat from upcountry.

Fedor's Journey Through Moscow at the Turn of the XXI Century

A long time ago, Prometheus was cursed by the God's for bringing fire to mankind. Today, Fedor finds himself in Moscow for the first time and falls in love with Masha.

The Blooper

The production designer Kostya’s workday snowballed since the early morning. The studio’s Accounting Department informed him that he was fined. Shocked by the fact, Kostya goes to see the producer, to sort it all out.

Splendore

USSR, 1979. A guy meets a girl at a party. The girl is a hairdresser, the guy helps his father at a meat-processing plant. Soon a son is born and the couple become a family. The beginning of 2004. The boy has grown into a lyric poet but, nevertheless, follows the father’s footsteps and works at the meat-processing plant. A reflection on happiness gets him into a dead end, from which, apparently, there is no way out. But here in his life enters the accountant Liubov, or Love, and there comes the time of the wedding…

Lead Anna

The 60-s of the past century. A school cleaning lady, who dreams of being a ballet dancer, miraculously learns to perform the most complicated jumps. The one who helped her was a strange teacher who taught music and dancing at that very school. The outcome of their relationship was more than unexpected.

For All I Died

The main character is a young girl Nastya who studies in one of the Moscow universities and lives in a usual dormitory. She is not happy with herself and her life. One night , Nastya finds a mysterious website «No man- no problem» and orders her death.

Volchok

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.

Crimean Bridge. Made With Love!

A Russian propaganda film about the Crimean Bridge being built in Kerch. Dima, a young and daring builder, has a hobby: from every change of female students-archeologists choose the most beautiful and win it. And this time would have happened the same, if not for Moscow PR man. He brought to the construction of television crews from America, and, of course, it is he, a luxurious careerist on a white convertible that will win the Varya's heart. While the two contenders charm her, the hot Caucasian Bernard Is trying to realize his dream to marry an American and go to Hollywood.

Кто-то должен умереть

When Yulya learns of her beloved husband's betrayal, she decides to poison both him and his mistress. Now, to get the antidote, the cheaters must prove that they truly love each other, otherwise death is inevitable.

Billion

An influential banker is doing everything possible not to share the property with his illegitimate sons. But when he is deprived of all the money, it turns out that only they can help Matthew ... To regain his fortune, the billionaire will be forced to rob his own bank in Monte Carlo. And for this, he will have to perform an even more difficult task: regain the trust of children who grew up without a father ...

Love of the Soviet Union

The film is about a generation of brave and beautiful people who did not see the destruction of the revolution and the chaos of the civil war, who dreamed of building a new life in which there would be no place for death, but only incredible love that opens the way for them to great achievements and discoveries. About exploits and glory, betrayal and loyalty of those who were heroes in heaven and on earth. About the time of immense trials that fell on their short but bright lives. About a woman who was the dream and true love of the Soviet Union.

Extraordinary

Eight-year-old Nikolai suffers from a congenital illness that leaves him unable to walk or speak. His doctors and even his own mother, Tatyana, have given up hope of treating his ailment. When Tatyana’s new friend Yuri tries using his own physiotherapy techniques to treat Nikolai, he discovers that Nikolai has a gift for music and teaches him to play the piano. With every note he learns and every melody he masters, Nikolai’s condition improves. He not only gains mobility, he also becomes an outstanding musician. Nikolai and Yuri travel to China together to take part in a piano competition, with a view to taking the grand prize. This is a humor-packed story about the healing power of music and fatherly love.

Dovlatov

Dovlatov charts six days in the life of a brilliant, ironic writer who saw far beyond the rigid limits of 70s Soviet Russia. Sergei Dovlatov fought to preserve his own talent and decency with poet and writer Joseph Brodsky, while watching his artist friends got crushed by the iron-willed state machinery.

100 Minutes

100 Minutes is the tale of thousands of Soviet soldiers who fought the Nazis and whose only ‘crime’ was to get caught. Stalin’s justice meted out on the prisoners who returned home was swift: ten years of forced labour in the Siberian camps. Why then would prisoners like Ivan Denisovich fight to stay alive to face another day of hell?

Invisible

Single mother Maria lives with her son and daughter in a science city, which is being prepared for liquidation. She believes that her physicist husband, who disappeared six years ago during a scientific experiment, is somewhere nearby — just in another dimension. A former colleague of her husband arrives in the city in search of the missing person's records, and Maria has a boyfriend-trucker Stas, ready to take her away with her children and start a new life together. Faced with a choice, a woman can not decide to leave her invisible husband.

Prefect

The story of a hipster who has reached power, who has become the prefect of the fictional metropolitan area of Vostochnoe Medvedkovo. Finally, talking about tile, cycle paths and the rescue of old estates can be supported by real deeds! Or not?

The Ivanovs vs. The Ivanovs

Sometimes it seems to parents that their child has been replaced... and two Ivanov families from the south of Russia are simply sure of this: after 16 years, namesakes will find out that their children were confused in the maternity hospital. What if your beloved son is not really your own, but your blood is being raised by strangers? And in a luxury that you never even dreamed of. And how will he accept his new, but painfully poor relatives?

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Investigation Held by ZnaToKi

School

9 "A" was an exemplary class, while their class teacher was Nosov Anatoly Germanovich - a strong and experienced teacher, recognized in 2009 as the Teacher of the Year. After his sudden illness, 9 "A" is left without a strong hand. The myth of the exemplary class is crumbling, discipline is cracking at the seams. Nosov's granddaughter, Anya Nosova, is perhaps the most difficult teenager of the school. A new student Ilya Epifanov provokes situations in which students manifest themselves from unexpected sides, turning upside down the usual idea of ​​them as classmates and teachers. None of the teachers want to take on the class, which of the model has become the most difficult.

Guests From the Past

Moscow, year 1982. Scientist Matvey Pyotrovsky creates a time machine and conducts a scientific experiment, which divides the apartment in two parts. It's first part is left in the 80-s with the professor, while the second one is transported to year 2020 to a modern family: businessman Sergey, his wife Svetlana and daughter Kristina. This kind of coliving creates a lot of trouble for everybody, since layering of two times means each of the families has lost access to the other part of the apartment. But problems don't end there: inventor's grandson Pavel, after waiting for 38 years, tries to prevent one tragic incident.

The Oligarch's Wife

Albina's life changes in an instant: under threat of arrest, her oligarch husband leaves her, taking all the money with him. All that remains of the spouse are two children and a Russian factory on the verge of bankruptcy. Now Albina is forced to forget about the luxurious life in a London mansion and remember what she was told in business courses. Just to start life from scratch in a provincial town without a penny in her pocket, no one taught her.

Hussar

1812. Lieutenant Grigory Rylsky must deliver secret documents to Kutuzov. As soon as they reach the commander, the Russian army will begin its offensive. But on the way to headquarters, the lieutenant catches sight of a village girl and suddenly finds himself in the future, in the apartment of a young scientist, Dmitry Zhuravlev, and his wife, Katya, who are on the verge of divorce. While trying to return Gusar to the past, the time machine breaks down, and the lieutenant is forced to remain in the 21st century until the scientist repairs the machine.

Penultimate Instance

Maxim and Valentina work in the Department for the Distribution of Souls — 24 hours before the death of a person, they must determine where he will go — to hell or heaven. And since both are guaranteed paradise under an employment contract, Maxim is trying to earn extra money and sell a place in paradise to oligarchs, and Valentina dreams of returning her husband from hell.

A Perfect Family

Aleksei stumbles upon a secret about his employer, an unscrupulous pharmaceutical company, that allowed it to amass millions of dollars. Fearing for his life, he finds no better place for his family to hide than the set of a… reality show. Now they will have to live under the watchful eye of the cameras and pretend to be a Perfect Family for 4 months.

The Golden Calf

The history of Bender's hunt for the underground millionaire Koreiko develops in the 1920s. Bright characters, adventurous adventures and a light veil of a bygone era in a new version of the classic work of Soviet literature.

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Zorge

Winners

1895. The name of the famous Moscow lawyer Nikolai Andronov, who has not lost a single trial yet, thunders throughout Russia. His friends Victor Rocevic and Michael Zavarzin – also brilliant lawyers. They win in the most complex criminal cases, sometimes not only justifying their clients, but also exposing the true criminals right in the courtroom. In difficult situations, lawyer friends always come to each other's aid. They are still quite young (the eldest, Nikolai Andronov, is only 35 years old). All three are completely different, but everyone is ready to sacrifice a lot for the sake of friends... Their long-term friendship, and the realization that there is someone to count on in a difficult situation – not least, makes all three winners. Both in professional and personal life.

Minute of Silence

Russian businessman Valery Korolev is going to the Middle East, to Naristan. A powerful earthquake occurs there, as a result of which the man loses his memory, but over time he manages to restore some memories. But before it turns out that this is one of the richest people in Russia, he and Maria Streltsova, a psychologist at the Ministry of Emergency Situations, will have to escape from the persecution of the special services in an attempt to understand who he is and why he came to Naristan.

Azazel

The main character, an official of the 14th grade, Erast Petrovich Fandorin, serves as a clerk in the Detective Department and secretly dreams of becoming a detective. By the will of circumstances, he finds himself involved in the investigation of a mysterious suicide.

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Money

The action takes place on "Like a Radio". The rating of the radio station is approaching zero, the Agency that places ads on its air is suffering losses, advertisers are demanding a change of managers and are going to determine the station's policy themselves, the management staff is really changing, but the new bosses will not blindly obey the instructions of the advertising Agency.