Yuri Belyayev

There is no single truth in love. Each treads their own path. Which should take precedence – passion or duty? How do we choose? And who gets to judge? These are the eternal questions, remorselessly thrust upon us by life. Anna Karenina made her choice, leaving her son Sergei to grow up struggling to understand why his mother took such a tragic and terrible path, and Count Vronsky haunted by the memory of the woman for whose death he still blames himself 30 years later. In 1904, in the aftermath of one of the battles of the Russo-Japanese war, Sergei Karenin and Alexei Vronsky find themselves thrown together in a remote Manchurian village, where fate offers them a chance to return to the events long past and, finally, to find the answers both have long been seeking.

Set in the 16th century, this is a story about Ukraine's Cossack warriors and their campaign to defend their lands from the advancing Polish armies.

Katya and her 6-year-old son Sanya, who, in 1952, meet a veteran Soviet officer named Tolyan. Katya falls in love with Tolyan, who turns out to be a small time criminal, but who also becomes a father figure to Sanya ...

Due to heavy snowfall that hit the city, aircraft flights were stopped for a day. Thousands of passengers crowded into the waiting room. Working together during this difficult shift, the previously conflicting bosses of the two shifts will evaluate each other, act in concert, and each will reconsider their professional and moral positions...

At the beginning of the last century, young Lillian, engineer Carter and policeman Simmons meet on an ocean liner, tracking Carter down to arrest him on murder charges. Suddenly , all three find themselves on lifebuoys in the open ocean...

A new doctor from Moscow arrives at a provincial mental institution. His interest is the peculiarities of the psyche of a patient who believes that he is Yakov Yurovsky, the man who assassinated the last Russian tsar. In the course of their conversations it transpires that the patient is a kind of philosopher, not without a gift for suggestion. In a while the doctor himself falls under his patient’s influence: he tends to relive that fatal night of June 16-17, 1918 when, without any investigation or trial, Tsar Nicholas II, who had recently abdicated, was murdered, together with his wife, daughters and incurably ill heir. Soon the doctor realizes that the tragedy of the last Russian tsar is in part his own tragedy, too...

VXII century. The Old Believer family lives in the sleepy Siberian taiga. They keep an ancient miraculous icon that has saved them from trouble more than once. The icon used to belong to the boyar Morozov and came to them after his arrest. In the 1970s, a group of researchers assembled an expedition to Siberia, to the place where Old Believers live. The icon seems to be in the skete of Karp and his daughter Agafia. Historians want to make sure that the rumors are true, they do not know that several more interested groups are also sent there - students, foreign agents and treasure-seeker criminals.

At the end of September 1941, Soviet artillery troops in besieged Leningrad realize that pretty soon they will fire their last shot, and after that the defense of the city will be doomed. The film is based on a true event: a small group of fearless soldiers transported a large supply of gunpowder through enemy lines to Leningrad.

Russian Empire, 1812. While Napoleon gathers his troops, a French spy infiltrates Admiral Fyodor Ushakov's estate. The great naval commander is ready to rejoin the fray, and his weapons will be his faith and love for his homeland.

The movie takes place in the first post-war winter in the Ussuri taiga, one of the protected areas of the Far East, where there are still tigers. Young biologist Vasily Belov attracts local residents to his side and defeats poachers.

An intelligent businessman from former engineers realizes that he is unlikely to be able to "turn around" in his homeland, and decides to emigrate. But for his beloved wife the question "to go or not to go?" is not so rhetorical. That's why the journey to the Sheremetyevo airport turns out to be unexpectedly long and difficult for both spouses...

A docudrama about the escape of Russian pilots after being taken hostage by the Taliban in 1996.

30 years after the end of World War II, a Soviet and an American journalist meet again for realizing post war paths of their countries.

Just yesterday Evgeni Vetrov had a completely different life. He had money, perfect reputation, was respected by his colleagues and most of all - he had love; but apparently he had enemies as well. One day Vetrov's wife was killed, being the only suspect he was soon found guilty. Now the only thing he can do is run, run, in order to find the real killer.

Mr. Fortescue, owner of a big company, unexpectedly dies. The autopsy shows that he has been poisoned. Nobody actually loved him, and even his family members had their reasons to kill him. But who really did it? And who is responsable for killing his young servant and his wife within the next couple of days? Of course the only person who can answer this question is Ms. Marple. And of course, the murderer is the person you least expected it to be.

This story take place in Moscow during the 1970s and unfolds around the love triangle between two young men and a girl who study at the same university. They argue, make up, and face their first disappointments and victories. While busy with personal lives and loves, they miss foreseeing that the country in which they were born and live will soon disappear from the map.

The legitimate heir to the throne in exile and the son of a murdered rebel — what do they have in common? Everyone has their own goal: one dreams of taking the throne and restoring his family to its former glory, the other - to take revenge on the murderer of his father, who serves the usurpers. Young men enter into a large-scale struggle for power and honor, in which those who seemed to be friends can betray, and former enemies can turn into allies. In order to achieve the goal, both the prince and the rebel's son will have to risk the most valuable and make the main choice in their lives — to go the preordained way or to oppose fate itself.

The end of the XVIII century. The reign of Catherine II. In the deep Russian provinces, among the vast steppes of the Ural escaped convict Yemelyan Pugachev proclaimed himself Emperor Peter III of Russia. Under the banner of the Pretender embarked detachments of Cossacks, fugitive serfs, and many spirited people. In these troubled times in the God-forsaken Belogorsk young officer Pyotr Grinyov meets his first love - Masha, the daughter of Captain Mironov. Recklessly passionate love with each other did not want to notice the signs of impending trouble. They did not know that soon they will be an ordeal. They could not imagine how bizarre way their fates intertwined with the fate of the self-proclaimed king, and what an incredible effort will be worth it to save their lives and feelings in the bloody chaos of Russian riot.

Vadim Golikov, a successful boxing promoter, travels to the taiga to visit his old friend Platoshin, a former boxing champion of the Soviet Union. There, due to a misunderstanding, he is knocked down by Platoshin’s granddaughter, Sasha. Immediately recognizing her fighting talent, Golikov invites her to Moscow, but Sasha initially refuses. After some thought, she decides to make the trip to the capital. Ahead of her lies a tough road to success and fame as Russia’s very own "Million Dollar Baby".

A juggler Valerian from a circus does not recognize his classmate, but she still loves him, and his son named Valerian ...

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...

In pre-Soviet Russia, Boris Savinkov leads a terrorist faction of Socialist-Revolutionary Party members responsible for the deaths of governors and ministers.

A woman and a young girl in different cities are struggling to find their way in this world. Will their paths intersect and will that change their destinies?

The history of the series develops around three Suvorov graduates - Ilya Sukhomlin, Stepan Perepechko and Alexei Syrnikov, who entered the Moscow Higher Military Command School at the end of the summer, where each of them is awarded the rank of junior sergeant. Along with the Suvorovites, graduates of ordinary schools, without a military education, called "schoolchildren" - Dmitry Krasilnikov, Gennady Varnava and Nikolai Kovnadsky, enter the school. The third side is made up of the so-called "army men" - Evgeny Bragin, Sergey Gonchar and Stepan Prokhorov - who have already served as conscripts in the army and have more practice than theory. Later, Maxim Makarov, transferred from St. Petersburg for a fight with a colleague, joins the main characters. Aleksey Syrnikov, meanwhile, is being transferred to the Ryazan Airborne School, which he dreamed about while still being a Suvorovite.

The TV show is about the Godunov family, which covers the period from the reign of Ivan the Terrible to the accession of Mikhail Romanov to the throne.

The son of the Turkish ambassador Mustafa, Gulhan, fascinated the Cossack from the border detachment. He orders the faithful servant, Janychar Altan, to steal Marysya.

Investigator Igor Zhuk arrives at his new duty station in Vyborg, but fate does not let him go. When the disfigured body of a young girl is found in the nearby forest, he realizes that he has already seen a similar case. The brutal murder has something to do with the fate of his dead wife, and Igor decides to find the perpetrators by all means. He teams up with police Captain Chagin, a talented detective who is used to acting not according to the rules, but according to justice.

A well-known journalist is assassinated during the presidential campaign in Poland. The media pushes the narrative of Russian interference in the country's internal affairs, in order to support Silesian separatists and destabilize the situation. From a small spark, a geopolitical conflagration is ignited, capable of causing enormous damage.

Sleepers (sleeper agents) are agents deeply incorporated into the structure of opposing forces. They are recruited before they get access to classified information, sometimes even before they start working in the field that interests the recruiting party. They are often recruited "to grow up". The action takes place in Moscow in June 2013 on the eve of major geopolitical events and upheavals that, as a result, will change the future life of the world.

1995-2003. A young ambitious oil trader Oleg Nesterov finds himself involved in espionage games between the special services of Russia and the United States during the reign of Saddam Hussein and becomes a direct participant in the historical events associated with the fall of the regime and the outbreak of the war in Iraq. Principled and inexperienced Oleg is constantly faced with difficult choices: a corrupt boss or a criminal partner, a betrayed bride or someone else's wife, indifference to the troubles of ordinary people or complicity in state crimes, money or love, truth or freedom…

Pyotr I is one of the key figures in world history. His indomitable energy, clear mind, incredible persistence, hard work and strict principled character allowed him to completely change the social structure of the Russian Empire. His path was thorny - he was faced not only with victories and success, but also with defeats, disappointments, mistakes and betrayal of those closest to him.

USSR, June 2, 1962. After the reduction of wages and price increases, residents of Novocherkassk went to a peaceful demonstration. But passions quickly heated up and led to a tragedy - the shooting of protesting workers, despite the protests of General Shaposhnikov. The authorities manage to hush up the tragedy, they take a non-disclosure agreement from witnesses, and all those who disagree receive prison sentences.

Paris 1578, France is in the middle of a struggle for power between king Henri III and his brother Duke d'Anjou. Court intrigues are intertwined with a love story between count de Bussy and a mysterious countess de Monsoreau.

Moscow, 1974. During the premiere show, Mila Nikanorova, the leading model, was found hanged in the back room of the Model House on Kuznetsky Most. Kirill Bessonov, a principled and stubborn investigator of the MURA, begins the investigation.

A wealthy and influential family hires Katya as a nurse for a dying father. Most unexpectedly, the young woman becomes his closest confidant and the only person in his life whom he can trust. Passions run high around Katya as a huge inheritance is at stake. From a modest nurse, whose only task was to care for the sick in the last days of his life, Katya involuntarily turns into an active participant of the family drama with all its hopes, fights and disillusions. It turns out that the seemingly happy and tight-knit family has its skeletons in the closet, and these secrets can come at a price of a human life.

The Cadets is a 2004 Russian TV series about a class of Soviet artillery officer cadets going through training prior to their commissioning and entry into the Battle of Stalingrad during World War II. The ten parts series are based on the memoirs of Pyotr Todorovsky and directed by Andrei Kavun. The US DVD release of the series was done as two volumes with two discs in each volume.