Elena Kostina

The Joke

Made in the tragic comedy genre, this film is about the dysfunctional Soviet management system in Azerbaijan SSR at the end of 1980s and about the decadence and corruption of the Soviet bureaucracy.

Subjects of the Revolution

It is dedicated to the memory of Heinrich Zveinek, the first commissar of the Inzen Division, who died during the defense of Lugansk and was buried on Red Square.

Capablanca

1925. José Raúl Capablanca, a famous Cuban chess player and employee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, arrives in Moscow for an international chess tournament. The trip, taking place under Machado's dictatorship, casts doubt on his future in this position. The film shows Capablanca's dramatic matches with Lasker, Tartakower, and Bogolubov, his tragic love for Bolshoi Theatre ballerina Sasha Mozhaeva, and a simultaneous game in which he lost to the very young Mikhail Botvinnik.

A Small Favor

Once a famous singer Valentin Ozernikov, returning from another tour, thinks about his fast flowing life and tried to formulate his criteria for figs further existence.

Flights in Dreams and in Reality

On the eve of his fortieth anniversary Sergei Makarov looks back at his life and learns that he has achieved nothing. He was not able to be happy and to bring happiness to the closest people in his life, neither to his long-suffering wife nor young mistress nor friends nor work... It is about the men who never grew up and could not find themselves in the time of stagnation – gifted, charming, but infantile and lost, they never were able to realize themselves...

Comrade Stalin Goes to Africa

A mockumentary mixing actual private footage of Stalin with reconstructed dramatic sequences featuring doubles.

Sharif and Marif

The father of the family and his brother go to work in distant lands. After working in Russia and seeing a lot, the heroes are confident that they can teach their fellow villagers a lot...

If I Die, Forgive Me

A soldier recently returned home finds it hard to scrape by, and the girl he loved married.

The Joke

Made in the tragic comedy genre, this film is about the dysfunctional Soviet management system in Azerbaijan SSR at the end of 1980s and about the decadence and corruption of the Soviet bureaucracy.

Subjects of the Revolution

It is dedicated to the memory of Heinrich Zveinek, the first commissar of the Inzen Division, who died during the defense of Lugansk and was buried on Red Square.

Capablanca

1925. José Raúl Capablanca, a famous Cuban chess player and employee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, arrives in Moscow for an international chess tournament. The trip, taking place under Machado's dictatorship, casts doubt on his future in this position. The film shows Capablanca's dramatic matches with Lasker, Tartakower, and Bogolubov, his tragic love for Bolshoi Theatre ballerina Sasha Mozhaeva, and a simultaneous game in which he lost to the very young Mikhail Botvinnik.

A Small Favor

Once a famous singer Valentin Ozernikov, returning from another tour, thinks about his fast flowing life and tried to formulate his criteria for figs further existence.

Flights in Dreams and in Reality

On the eve of his fortieth anniversary Sergei Makarov looks back at his life and learns that he has achieved nothing. He was not able to be happy and to bring happiness to the closest people in his life, neither to his long-suffering wife nor young mistress nor friends nor work... It is about the men who never grew up and could not find themselves in the time of stagnation – gifted, charming, but infantile and lost, they never were able to realize themselves...

Comrade Stalin Goes to Africa

A mockumentary mixing actual private footage of Stalin with reconstructed dramatic sequences featuring doubles.

Sharif and Marif

The father of the family and his brother go to work in distant lands. After working in Russia and seeing a lot, the heroes are confident that they can teach their fellow villagers a lot...

If I Die, Forgive Me

A soldier recently returned home finds it hard to scrape by, and the girl he loved married.

Zero Option

Police Major Golidze alone confronts a gang of gangsters, led by the notorious criminal Bagirov.

Love Conquers All

Based on the short story collection «A Moment Before Happiness» by Oles Honchar. A love story between a Hungarian girl, Lóri, and a Ukrainian soldier, Sashko, at the end of the Second World War. An unexpected meeting and a fleeting moment of happiness are overshadowed by the advances of a Hungarian man who is obsessed with her. Defending his beloved, Sashko kills the jealous rival. The scandal is then covered up by Sashko’s death.

Fools Train

Several passengers are rushing on a train to an unknown destination, each with their own problems.

Sunday, Half Past Six

A rookie detective is investigating a young girl death

Marraskuun harmaa valo

Kari Syysmäki, a Finnish Businessman is on a vacation with his wife in Tallinn. When his wife is away a young man enters their hotel room with a gun. He tells to the businessman that he has just tried to rob a bank, but accidentally shot one of the clerks. Now he's hiding from the cops. But when the bank robber forgets his gun on the table, Syysmäki grabs it and shoots him in the back. After that Syysmäki refuses to travel back to Finland with his wife. He stays in Tallinn and soon he's about to face both the cops and the mob of Estonia.

Man From The "Alpha" Team

Little-known facts about the activities of a special forces unit created to fight terrorists in the former USSR. The action takes place in Moscow in September 1993 during an attempt to seize the White House.

Zig Zag

Marti, the wife of a prominent American attorney in Moscow and Dimitri, a Moscow cop, are thrown into a web of greed and corruption in this Hitchcockian-type thriller.

Захочу - полюблю

Сибирский спас

Spawn of Hell

Late-Soviet screen adaptation of the novel "A Pale Horse" by Boris Savinkov. A group of anti-tsarist revolutionary terrorists plot to assassinate the governor of a provincial town.

Vertical Races

A drama about a psychological duel between a police detective and career criminal.

Investigation Held by ZnaToKi

Sunday, Half Past Six

Young lawyer Sergei Krasheninnikov is assigned to a case involving the death of a young woman. As he questions people who saw her on the day she died, Sergei begins to realize that there is much more to the story than meets the eye.

The Airport Incident

Major of the militia, Dzhuraev, is occupied with a rather mundane task — investigating the robbery of the apartment of the elderly actress Kurbatova, whose jewelry was stolen. The crime has already been confessed to by Bahor Murodov, a man who served his sentence. He intentionally "got caught" by breaking into a bridal shop without taking anything. And then — a sudden turn of events at the airport… Two officers from the private security service are poisoned, and their cargo — unique jewelry made of pure gold — is stolen...