Sergey Medvedev

Eleven comedic vignettes featuring conversations – some important, some less so – held in restaurants over coffee and cigarettes (how quickly time flies – cigarettes are banned in Russia’s restaurants now). The conversations are candid, and even veer into the territory of murder. In the final credits, the director apologizes to Jim Jarmusch, whose work (in the anthology Coffee and Cigarettes, which Jarmusch shot in pieces over many years) Oldenburg-Svintsov is clearly indebted to. Sex, Coffee, Cigarettes’s kinship with Jarmusch’s film extends to the fact that superstars play tiny roles in almost all of the vignettes.

"Gentlemen Golovlevs" is a social novel from the life of a noble family. The disintegration of bourgeois society, as in a mirror, was reflected in the disintegration of the family. The whole complex of moral relations that cement family ties and regulate moral norms of behavior is collapsing. The topic of family becomes topical. The attention of M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin in this novel is entirely devoted to the analysis of deformities, the study of causes and the display of consequences.

Before leaving Russia and moving to Western Europe, famous opera singer Lyuba travels to her hometown to say goodbye and show her teenage son around. But Andrey, Lyuba’s son, disappears and she must stay in the place she hates the most to search for him. A piercing exploration of identity and transformation, against the backdrop of a Russian hinterland, surrounded by Orthodox churches and snow.

Two classmates are trying to find a mysterious lake inhabited with a few feet long fishes.

The author's warning that the policy pursued by the governments of many European countries will in the near future lead to the destruction of culture, religion, accumulated knowledge and heritage. And Europe's rejection of traditional spiritual values ​​will lead to its destruction and the collapse of European nations.

A film takes a look at horror movies, featuring a police officer pursuing a criminal. This criminal, known as “Friday,” has caused the townspeople to stay indoors by midnight. Investigator Zakharov is determined to find him, thinking he understands Friday well. Lisa, a character in the story, walks through the quiet city to return a coffee grinder.

Five short love stories, which become a statement of the directors about love. A shoemaker, a reporter, a pavement hooker-in, a psychiatric patient and a young man released from prison are the main characters of the film, heroes in a time of no heroes. All of them have the important qualities of being openhearted and not afraid of loving.

The main character is a cute ambitious girl Rita from a provincial town on the Black Sea coast. She decides to break out of the routine of doing local weddings and matinees and arrives to conquer the capital, trying to enroll in a drama school. She is waiting for a lot of difficult tests, which sometimes turn into very funny stories.

Teenage boy Misha attends hypnosis sessions with psychotherapist Volkov to recover from sleepwalking. As a result, Misha falls under the influence of a hypnologist to such an extent that he ceases to understand where reality is and where illusion is. After the mysterious death of one of Volkov’s patients, Misha decides to conduct an investigation to get to the bottom of the truth. But what if the dream and reality merged into one, and in the end he becomes the main suspect?

A young man drops out of university and goes to the police. He's done nothing wrong he just wants a job. A particular job. Playing the victim in murder reconstructions. Maybe by getting close to death he can manage to cheat on his own.

The crazy comedy "City Day" tells about one day in the life of the inhabitants of the provincial Lyubyakino. Celebrating the City Day, people did not notice that the president himself had planned the working trip through the town. Sudden news plunges everyone into shock and creates chaos: the mayor, the district police officer, the priest and other heroes from this place, lost in the outback, forgotten by God and progress, must, in the shortest possible time, bring the city, actively celebrating, as the last time, into a decent look, in a hurry to mask the problems from the view from the guarded cortege and to depict that this is a place of high culture of everyday life.

A funny fantasy about mangers, hobbits and other surprising people.

On the day of the 150th anniversary of Konstantin Sergeyevich Stanislavsky, an evening dedication "Outside the System" took place on the Main Stage of the Moscow Art Theater. The production is based on documentary material — letters, memoirs, memoirs, diaries, recordings of rehearsals. The fate of the founder of the Moscow Art Theater is reflected in the testimonies of his greatest contemporaries, friends, students and opponents.

In ancient times, wizards fought each other for ancient artifacts that gave them power over the world. Many of them died in battle. And one of them, the Wizard, spent many centuries searching for the relics. In our days, schoolgirl Sonya accidentally discovers the artifacts, not knowing about their magical power. Without wanting it, the girl becomes a sorceress, not yet guessing what danger awaits her.

The Presnyakov brothers, playwrights, wrote a play about how terrorism arises. From what depths of the human subconscious? Or is he born in the usual rhythm of everyday everyday life? Kirill Serebrennikov turned the play into a tragic farce and made a powerful performance on the malice of the day.