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The Battle for Sevastopol

Lyudmila Pavlichenko was only 25 years old when she became the most effective female sniper during the Second World War. Her meeting with Eleanor Roosevelt and delegates from friendly countries who decided to help the Soviet Union was a turning point for the course of the entire war.

Battle for Sevastopol

The story of Lyudmila Pavlichenko, the most successful female sniper in history.

Таксистка

Playing the Victim

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.

Vocal Parallels

Vocal Parallels is a surreal, impressionistic concert of classical opera pieces performed by several retired Soviet opera divas: Roza Dzhamanova, Araksiia Davtian, Bibigul’ Tulegenova, and the late Erik Salim-Meriuert (Kurmangaliev), a fantastic countertenor.

First Oscar

The film follows two student cinematographers who, as the war approaches Moscow, refuse to be evacuated and instead volunteer to be front-line cameramen capturing the horrors of war and heroism of the soviet soldiers. At the same time, we witness another storyline taking place in the US. After the premiere screening of the already completed documentary “Moscow Strikes Back”, one of the members of the Academy Awards selection committee is trying to persuade his fellow colleagues to establish a new category of Best Documentary in the upcoming Oscars event.

My Dad Baryshnikov

Moscow, 1986, the heat of Perestroika. Borya is an average clumsy teenager who is miraculously admitted to the legendary Bolshoi Ballet School. The boy is convinced that he will become a ballet dancer like his father, Mikhail Baryshnikov. But is this father real or imaginary?

Shake Your Cares Away

Following the death of her multi-millionaire husband, Alma is left alone in their luxurious villa. Driven by a compulsion to do good, she invites homeless mother Marina to take shelter in her house. This simple act gives a new meaning to Alma’s life: she decides to turn the entire property into a refuge for people in need. Alma is prepared to pour everything she has into this fragile utopia, but reality can fracture even the deepest convictions.

Love Without Size

Masha is over thirty. Rented apartment, no husband, no children, no lover. A few years ago, she conquered Moscow and shone on stage, but the years go by, and the body is not getting younger, and the size leaves much to be desired. Fate in the person of the “former” takes her to the foot of Elbrus, where Masha meets old acquaintances and new great feelings.

Bayazet

Based on the Valentin Pikul's novel "Bayazet".

Shift

A young seismologist, who lives in Amsterdam, along with a popular journalist, accidentally become the participants of a deadly game, lead by an international syndicate that plans to take over the power (with the help of a seismological weapon) in the republics of the former Soviet Union. Russian Secret Services, that provide security for the heads of the summit of the region of the Kaspiiskoe Sea, intervene in this case...

Protest Day

A day in the life of a typical character of Russian history, "the little man": a school teacher of Russian language and literature. An intellectual and his problems at the beginning of the 21st century. A day in the life of the country which Yesenin loved. About a country that still has hope...

A Rough Draft

Young Muscovite Kirill is a talented designer of computer games. One day, he is completely erased from the memory of everyone he knew and loved. Kirill learns that he has been chosen for an important and mysterious mission: to become a customs officer between parallel worlds, of which there are dozens in the universe. Will Kirill unravel the mystery of these worlds and who controls them? And is our Earth really just an imaginary "draft" -- a parallel world -- which in reality does not exist ...

Diamonds. Theft

This is a poetic film set in the times of Lenin's NEP. A ballet dancer steals a brooch and gives it as a present to another dancer. This is a crime of passion. A mysterious black ball is after the heroine. She runs away from it and manages to give the brooch in an exquisite pirouette movement, as shiny as diamond facets. What gives a stone its dazzling luster are its polished facets. But the real gem is love, and it's much harder to get than any diamond in the world.

The Bottomless Bag

Based on Ryunosuke Akutagawa's In a Grove, story takes place during the times of Tsar Alexander II. A lady-in-waiting tells the Emperor in his bedroom a metaphysical story about a 13th century prince who is killed in the woods under mysterious circumstances. Fairy tale characters who have witnessed the terrible death, all share their version of the events, gradually shedding light on what really happened.

Four Ages of Love

Four novels: "Spring", "Summer", "Autumn", "Winter" - four very different love stories...