Ivan Tverdovsky

To understand what is happening in modern Russia, it is not enough to go out and look around, or read news bulletins. If you want to get insight, the best way is to radically change the angle of view and look at everything, for example, with the eyes ... of a horse that serves in the operational regiment in the center of the capital.

As film specialists write: "From the roles played by Ulyanov, one can study the history of the country". Through his roles in film and theater, he has reflected all the periods, all the historical collusions of the Soviet Union. He has interpreted more than three hundred roles, from the simple peasant to the leaders and emperors. Being laureate of all state awards, rewarded with orders and medals, cherished by power, being himself in power, he could not "be bronze". Our film is about an actor and a remarkable man: Mikhail Alexandrovich Ulyanov.

Pianism is the occupation of piano music. Means masterly possession of the instrument. In the life of the main character, the honored artist of Russia, laureate of international competitions Sergey Musaelyan, this term takes a slightly different meaning.

Little novels from the life of the Leningrad poet Oleg Grigoriev. His fate, like his poems, is a flip-flop, where good and evil exist under the masks of each other.

Once upon a time, a stage director with German surname Dell read from Saltykov-Shchedrin that «Skopin is such city where any person has no reason to dwell». So he decided to create a real theatre there, in Ryazan region, in a small provincial town, «where any person has no reason to dwell».

Masha is a kept woman. She lives in Moscow with a support of her rich married lover. One day she begins to make her own video-blog on YouTube, advising other women how to behave with men. This blog starts very quickly to gain unpredictable popularity. The film follows the vicissitudes of Masha\'s life, her attempt to become independent, her travel to motherland (Ukraine) and her fails to find love without price.

Two young residents of Moscow, recently graduated, hire a car, buy tickets and drive... Their parents built communism, their grandfathers overcame fascism, but for them there is nothing to built and to struggle for. Two young residents of Moscow, recently graduated, spend time on the internet and do not clearly understand what they are living for, don’t understand their country and don’t see a perspective in the future. Television has plagued them with Big Winter Olympic Games in Sochi and they hire a car, buy tickets and drive throughout the country to see competitions, Black sea and Russian countryside.

The film tells about the founding of the city of Koktebel a real secret adviser Eduard Jung, who in 1890 left the service in Moscow and moved to the arid lands of the future Koktebel. Maximilian Voloshin in 1903 in Koktebel began to build his own house, which later became the center of the spiritual life of Russia.