Mikhail Orkin

The documentary is dedicated to the Strugatsky brothers, iconic Soviet writers who are still incredibly popular and relevant in Russia. There were queues for Strugatsky's books in the USSR, magazines with their stories were resold on the black market. The brothers were not dissidents: they began their writing career as convinced communists; the world of the future they described is the world of a communist utopia. It is all the more surprising that their entire creative biography is a fierce struggle against censorship. Which they lost.

“The True Biography of Nikita Mikhalkov” is the story of one of the most famous Russian directors (and one of the most adored actors by the public), told unbiasedly - that is, not from the words of Mikhalkov himself.

The film tells the story of Roman Abramovich, the world's most famous Russian businessman, and after February 24, 2022, one of the key participants in Russian-Ukrainian negotiations. Despite the fact that the international press constantly writes about Abramovich, we still lack a deep understanding of his biography.

Avenue, university and even an asteroid bear his name. Academician Sakharov is known all over the world: someone as the creator of the hydrogen bomb, someone as an outstanding public figure and human rights activist. All his life Andrei Sakharov lived between two fires - science and humanism - and this dualism formed the basis of the film. The picture will show the scientist as he saw himself, through his dialogues with the Conscience.

The author of the film, Evgenia Zobnina, tells in detail about the life and career of Tamara Morshakova, a legendary Russian lawyer, retired judge of the Constitutional Court and a former member of the Human Rights Council.

Igor S. Kon was a prominent Soviet and Russian sociologist, psychologist, and educator. He pioneered sex education in the USSR, worked extensively with teenagers and queer people, and supported those affected by the HIV epidemic. Despite living through times of repression and censorship, Igor S. Kon never gave up his scientific and educational work, and defended the ideas of individual freedom, equality, and tolerance until his final days.

Biography of Soviet/Russian dissident and liberal politician Valeriya Novodvorskaya, an attempt to rethink her heritage in the light of the historical events of recent years.

A biographical film about the popular rap artist Detsl, whose real name is Kirill Tolmatskiy. The rap artist passed away at the age of 35 in 2019.

He gave us an unforgettable and unique childhood. What was the great Russian storyteller really like? A documentary film about Eduard Uspensky.

In an exclusive concert for VotVot, the master visits the most diverse periods of his legendary discography.

In recent years, Viktor Pelevin has been releasing a novel every year, each with a circulation of about 100 thousand copies - this is one of the best results in the country. At the same time, he has not given interviews for almost 20 years, does not appear in public and, according to rumors, does not live in Russia. Film director Rodion Chepel makes an attempt to combat hoaxes. To do this, he studied the archives, the early works of Viktor Pelevin and interviewed people who knew him.

The plot of the film is based on the second stage of the expedition "North is nearby." In the spring of 2019, daredevils on three all-terrain vehicles over 29 days covered more than 6,000 km along the northeastern coast of Russia from Novy Urengoy to Anadyr. They chose directions, and powerful Arctic vehicles carried them directly.

A story about the work of the elite segment of the sex industry in modern Russia on behalf of the representatives of the illegal business themselves.

The world of simultaneous interpreters looks absolutely hermetic, and they themselves are representatives of the “old” cultural elite. It began as almost secret knowledge, Soviet diplomatic staff and brilliantly educated Russian émigrés, forced to earn extra money as taxi drivers, largely created simultaneous translation on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Since the Nuremberg trials and the first UN meetings, simultaneous translation has been an important part of world diplomacy. But it won't always be like this. Perhaps, even during the lifetime of those who witnessed his birth, simultaneous translation will give way to machine translation.

Where are the boundaries of permissible self-defense when it comes to the civilian use of firearms? Does a person who is not going to use it need a weapon? The author's investigation helps to take an objective look at all these issues, to study in detail the position of people who have somehow encountered the use of firearms in everyday life.

Investigation of the causes of death of Vladislav Listyev. 25 years passed, but the perpetrators of the highest-profile contract murder in Russia in the 1990s were not found. Or didn’t you want to? Or found, but silent? Rodion decided to conduct his investigation. He wants to know the name of the customer. Six months of work, dozens of interviews with colleagues, friends and relatives of Listyev, investigators who conducted the case. And everyone answers the main question: who killed Vlad Listyev?

The film restores the panorama of the centuries. Journalistic narration with extensive use of artistic reconstructions, computer graphics, animation shows that the business tradition in the region was not interrupted. She manifests herself in different ways in different eras. A key trick used by different types of screen technologies is animation. Monuments to great people, buildings, industrial structures, landscapes of the Volga and Oka, film and photo chronicles are transformed, change in time and space, acquire a different dimension in order to somehow interact with the present, enter into a dialogue with descendants.

Being slim and married to a great love, preferably before 30 - that's what Sasha Zaitseva dreamed about when she was 13. Sixteen years later, in her wedding dress, she stands on the bridge, crying and can’t decide what to do next.

A new crisis in a few days rewrote all plans, canceled business, destroyed dreams. How have we changed and our ideas about the world? What will happen next? Will it happen again? There are two views on the situation here: from April and August 2020. And the five key topics are work, family, medicine, debts, and the second wave of the epidemic. Journalists Alexander Urzhanov and Igor Makarov, together with experts, entrepreneurs and ordinary people, understand the new reality.

In 1959, nine hikers had disappeared in Ural Mountains of Soviet Union. Even after 60 years, the mystery of their death remains unsolved. On February 2nd, 1959, nine hikers had disappeared in the Ural Mountains of Soviet Union. What the rescue mission saw was hard to believe: the tracks of barefoot prints were heading away from the cut open tent. During the period of several months the bodies had been located in 4 kilometers radius, some frozen to death wearing nothing but underwear or just one sock, others had their head or chest broken, eyes popped out or the tongue torn out. The mystery of Dyatlov group death remains unsolved for over 60 years. The official investigation hit the dead-end while dozens of private investigators and researchers around the world are proposing new versions of what had actually happened ranging from runaway prisoners’ attack to yeti involvement, from secret military tests to aliens. One of them is mountaineer and traveler Teodora Hadjiyska.