Donbass. The Tormented Heart of Russia

The film’s plot tells the story of how two young men, Grant and Sasha, lifelong friends, accidentally end up at a film studio for a casting, where the director takes notice of them. When asked at the casting: “Who are you?”, Grant replies: “I’m a hooligan and a scoundrel.” The director proposes an unexpected experiment to these otherwise ordinary guys. The friends get a camera in their hands and an enticing offer — to make a film about their lives. And they did, hiding nothing from the camera. Three friends form a kind of “syndicate of good fortune”; they have more than one way to get money or seduce someone of the opposite sex. Guys like Grant and Sasha can be found in every courtyard, street, and city in Russia; in their view, the 90s were a romantic time, but they’re living in the present, and they’re not destined to go from rags to riches. However, they will find love — love that, by the way, they didn’t seek out; it found them.

The film’s plot tells the story of the multifaceted life of Baron Eduard Alexandrovich von Falz‑Fein.

He dedicated sculpture all his life. But today he sculpts the figures of his neighbors in a nursing home, as lonely as he is. Every day, observing around himself the extinction of the life and suffering of the elderly, he creates realistic images in his works that compel empathy and cause sympathy.

On the activities of partisans and underground fighters during the Great Patriotic War.

A film about the tragic fate of the priest Ilya Popov.

During the Great Patriotic War, the Nazis recruited police officers from local residents of the occupied territories. They were entrusted with the dirtiest work: arresting innocent people, escorting them to concentration camps, and also killing neighbors and acquaintances, and sometimes even family members. In 1943, when Soviet soldiers entered the Rostov region, hundreds of traitors were arrested. The court sent many of them to penal battalions, and 11 executioners were executed.

A documentary drama about mothers who lost their children during the armed conflict in Donbas

The film showcases the main tourist attractions of the Don region – Azov, Starocherkassk, Taganrog, Novocherkassk, Ust‑Koysus, Kamensk‑Shakhtinsky, Veshenskaya, the Alexandrovsky Forest, Rostov‑on‑Don, and others.