A Small Giant of Big Sex

The author of The Kolyma Stories and many other works spent 17 years in the terrible GULAG camps on Kolyma. The term that Varlam Tikhonovich received in 1929 was for distributing Lenin's letter to the congress, in which he criticized Stalin. Nowadays, this letter is called the "testament of Lenin"…

Dmitry Gromtsev was a volunteer to go the front where he was wounded. He couldn't get back to his beloved profession of musician. The movie tells us about difficult destiny of a person who couldn't become an artist because of war.

The question is what to build — palaces designed to last for centuries, or cheap concrete blocks that offer a quick fix to the housing crisis. Behind each of these choices stand scholars, architects, and Party officials.

Multiply love stories are going around the young family including the newlyweds parnts and even... a grandmother.

The film includes three short stories based on the stories of Mikhail Zoshchenko: "Crime and Punishment", "Fun Adventure", and "Wedding Event" about the negative phenomena of the provincial life of the young country of the Soviets: stupidity, drunkenness, money-grubbing, lack of spirituality.

An old detective does not want to retire. The only way out is to prove to his boss that he still can catch criminals. The problem is that there were no crimes recently to work on. Together with his retired friend he decides to commit a perfect crime himself and then quickly solve it. Real problems start when a real criminal steals money he has stolen.

Drama of the penalty parts of political prisoners, who fought on the Soviet fronts.

The action takes place in our time: an exciting criminal intrigue unfolds in one of the major regional cities. In the center of it is the investigator of the prosecutor's office Paphnutiev, forced by the nature of his service to face not only the criminal elements of the city, but also the entire official city leadership.

When a charming crook sold fake archaeological treasures to a naive foreigner, he did not know what he was doing: an overseas guest turned out to be the director of a Russian-American pasta factory. The deceived American angrily orders his guard to find a thief. Unhappy fraudster awaits terrible punishment.

Fantastic story of the first half of the XIX century about a monk named Ivan who must fight the dark forces in his monastery.

In this gentle comedy, an unpopular resident in a Russian village has his life completely changed when he announces, entirely on a whim and just to upset things a bit, that he's moving to the Pacific coast.

Matyora is a small village on a beautiful island with the same name. The existence of the village is threatened with flooding by the construction of a dam. This is the story of the inhabitants of Matyora and their farewell to their homeland.

After a few years in a big world Kolya is returning to his village and life in the village is going wild.

The film tells about the complex relationship between two chemical scientists. Viktor Sviridov arrived from the province, where he works as an engineer at one of the factories, at the metropolitan institute in order to defend his project related to an urgent scientific problem. However, without the support of a longtime friend Alexei Grekov, he has no chance: most members of the academic council are opposed to his project and himself. But Grekov is also forced to choose between his wife's scientific career and obligations to another.

Goodbye, Boys! is the coming-of-age tale of three teenagers graduating from a Communist school during World War II. It's summer, and their main goals are swimming in the Black Sea and wooing the girl all three of them love. However, they are asked to become officers in the military, and slowly their worlds begin changing forever. Their parents oppose them, they begin fearing losing each other and their families, and the military tricks and maneuvers them into joining the army instead of the navy.

The film tells about the life of the Soviet country in the 30s of the twentieth century, based on the feuilletons and notebooks of famous writers Ilya Ilf and Eugene Petrov…