Karen Badalov

Two up-and-coming friends, seeing themselves as the future elite of the new world, oligarchs, they sign up for a major deal, but it turns out that they have been drawn into a massive embezzlement scheme involving billions from the treasury. After his arrest, Andrei ends up in an overcrowded communal cell, a purgatory where he must transform himself into a different person in order to survive and return back to the real world, to his family.

One dark winter evening, the young tsar Saltan was lucky enough to find himself a tsarina from a simple Russian family. He was so impressed by the speech of the young charmer that he married her the same evening, and took her two sisters with him to the palace as servants. However, the treacherous girls do not share the happiness of their luckier sister and begin to plot. Saltan leaves for a long military campaign, during which the young queen gives birth to his son. The evil sisters write a dispatch to the tsar, where they brazenly lie about the child: they say, the queen gave birth to someone unknown, "neither a son nor a daughter." Saltan is upset, but orders to wait until his return. The sisters substitute the letter, and as a result, the girl and her son are sealed in a wooden barrel and thrown into the ocean in the best sadistic traditions.

Evgeniy Onegin lives in grand style: balls, receptions, theater premieres and other frivolities the capital can offer a young man. But social life has long tired him, so he perceives the news of the illness of his uncle living in the village as an opportunity to escape. However, having reached the estate, Onegin learns about the death of a relative, which, however, does not upset Evgeniy too much. His financial affairs are very sad, and his uncle is rich and has no other heirs. Onegin locks himself in the estate, living in aimless solitude until the owner, who has returned from abroad, appears at the neighboring estate – a young, enthusiastic Vladimir Lenskiy, not yet satiated with life, who introduces Evgeniy to sisters Tatyana and Olga Larin.

The talented and practical journalist German Krylov, in pursuit of sensation, finds himself in a company that sells a feeling of love. Unexpectedly for himself, he becomes the object of manipulation and falls into a trap from which it is difficult to get out.

Against the background of the war of 1812 and the conflicts preceding it, the fate of the Russian aristocracy unfolds.

The beginning of the 1960s, a period of aggravation of the confrontation between the USSR and the USA. In the most difficult weather conditions and with malfunctions on board, the first Soviet nuclear submarine K-3 sets off for a hike under the ice of the Arctic Ocean in order to surface exactly at the North Pole.

The village idiot lives in a hut with his sick mother. His neighbors are the Jewish family of the local blacksmith Mendel, and the guy is secretly in love with his youngest daughter Sonya.

It is the story of seven days in the life of the 70-year-old Peter who learns that he has lung sarcoma and that there is a faint hope that in a week the diagnosis may be ruled out by a medical luminary from Moscow. Peter spends the seven days summing up the results of his life which he considers worthless, in which he could not start a family, earn money, save his reputation. But time and again the events in which he becomes involved and which are filled with smiles, sadness, human destinies, let the viewer realize that the protagonist’s life is far from worthless.

In a nostalgic Moscow of 1976, an unlucky actor meets a charismatic writer, a living classic of Soviet literature, who turns his life into a tragicomic farce with the artistic bohemia, foreign-currency prostitutes, the KGB staff and agents of the CIA.

A Russian war propaganda film about a virtuoso violinist from Belgium witnessing war crimes.

A twist on the classic game of Mafia. 12 competitors take part in a game of life and death where the innocent must take out the Mafia in order to win the cash prize. Those that are voted out must face their biggest fears in a computer simulation.

1905. A Jewish Shtetl. Shimek and Buzya are two 10 year olds. Of course, she is a princess and he is a prince. They live in the same yard, in neighboring palaces. What Buzya really means to him, Shimek begins to understand only years later when, far away from home, when he receives the news that Buzya is about to be married off.

A continuation of a famous Russian comedy "Mamy" ("Mommies").

A group of friends decide to spend a weekend together at a country house, but an unexpected accident forces them to stop at a strange and remote estate. In this abandoned and eerie place, a rare antique camera is discovered. Slowly the camera draws them into a mystical and tragic chain of events that none of them could have seen coming. Anyone who has their picture taken by the camera sees a photo revealing their death. Many of them lose their lives in excruciating ways, as they race to solve the mystery of the camera.

Hijinks ensue when an amateur filmmaker, financially reliant on video piracy, must reshoot all the movies from a film festival before time runs out.

The famous conductor (Vladas Bagdonas) goes with his orchestra to Jerusalem to perform the oratorio "St. Matthew Passion." The day before he receives a telegram, stating the suicide of his son, who lived in Israel. Conductor at the time denied the artist's son, believing that he is living right. It's suicide, especially suicide note flip soul maestro's son, forced him to reconsider all their attitudes.

Film director Sergei Parajanov creates brilliant films. His nonconformist behavior conflicts with Soviet System. He is committed to prison for being eccentric. His indestructible love for beauty allows him to withstand the years of imprisonment, isolation and oblivion.

The continuation of a funny adventures of the heroes from "All Inclusive ili Vsyo Vklyucheno" (2011).

The action of the famous play about the inhabitants of the flophouse has been transferred to our days. The heroes live in a landfill, look for something to sell in the mountains of garbage, steal and drink. One day, Luka appears at the dump, who tries to comfort these people who have sunk to the bottom of their lives.

Based on the true story of the "death match" where the Soviet team "Start" scored its second victory over the German team «Flakelf» on August 9, 1942.

The story unfolds in Austria at the end of the 19th century. A young woman faces a choice: illusion or reality, the past or the future, to kill or to give life? But does this choice truly exist? And what is its price?

A story about the life of Sergey Pavlovich Korolyov, the lead Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer.

A corner of Hell hasn't been meeting its quota of damned souls, so Lila, a beautiful female demon, is sent to corrupt a moral man by making him irresistible to women. But Lila hadn't counted on falling for him herself.

The sea, August, interesting and simple people. They tan, swim, play volleyball, basketball, drink, dance and then find someone to spend the night with. Many grew out of their student phase and can afford a more comfortable holiday but when July comes they grab a tent, jump into their cars and come here. Here, nobody talks about work and the size of your wallet means nothing.

Mara Alexandrova is a woman with a complex character and an equally difficult fate. She is desperately fighting for every day that comes. One by one, men change in her life. Having received some support from her: moral, financial, they immediately leave. It hardens her.

The play is a compositional study based on a story by Boris Vakhtin. The desire to introduce the audience to the poetic world of Vakhtin's prose and to find an atmosphere reminiscent of the author led the creators to use the form of studies, stage sketches that are extremely conventional and open to the audience's perception. The search for intonation and the fine line between conventionality and authenticity of experience were central to this work.

Today’s twenty-something Russians are the first generation in the country’s post-communist history to have grown up free. Their twenties are the age of freedom, of fast-changing events and intense emotions. Perhaps only at this age they can live a whole life in one day. A young girl and her two accident companions walk halfway around St.-Petersburg; they flirt and tease each other, and for ninety minutes they act out a real-time romantic drama. This stroll is full of laughter and tears against a backdrop of the hustle and bustle of the streets.

A television adaptation of the Pyotr Fomenko Workshop Theatre's production of A.N. Ostrovsky's play. Recorded in 2004. The plot revolves around a promissory note scam and an attempt to woo a wealthier husband. This production, while respectful of the classic, reveals new facets of the play—Chekhov's impressionism, the poetry of a vanishing world, and the Russian estate.

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The story of a woman suffering from loneliness among her loved ones. Her family has long been no quiet safe haven: her husband has stopped being a support, and her teenage daughter doesn't give a damn about her. Even with her best friend, she feels unwanted and abandoned. And then true love appears in Nina's life...

Paris, 1930s. There is ferment among the Russian emigration: part of it is accumulating strength to overthrow the Bolsheviks, others are illegally, but actively working for the Soviet government.

The tale of the Snow Maiden is well-known, as are its numerous traditional arrangements. However, this version is somewhat different, as is the play by A.N. Ostrovsky, which served as the basis for the film.

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A provincial war vet arrives in Moscow and subsequently takes on a gang of bad cops.

Once Olga was told that she would meet her betrothed on New Year's Eve. Disappointed in her affair with Edik, who showed up on her doorstep on New Year's Eve, she no longer trusts anyone, and decisively changes everything in her life - her style, her job, her apartment. While Olga is getting rid of unpleasant memories of the past, the angels are not idle, they decide the fates of their wards. On another New Year's Eve, an uninvited and rather persistent guest from the far North appears on Olga's doorstep. From that moment (not without the help of the angels), the New Year for Olga and other characters in the film turns into a series of incredible events...

The Collector is using his massive collection of curiosities and arts to provoke and manipulate people into a different state of mind. The Collector's daughter is building her own collection, she is having an affair with three guests of her father, and they are about to make some strange discoveries.

Standing in front of a Police Station, mantra chanting Buddhist monks threw the officers into frenzy. The Buddhist monks believed the reincarnated Buddha resided in the body of one officer. This officer was quickly whisked away and reassigned to a small village, where to everyone's amazement he displayed uncommon, for him, behavior, doing good deeds.

Seven interconnecting stories that take place in Russian bedrooms. These include a son visiting his complaining bedridden mother, a middle-aged couple bickering, one soldier bullying another in an army barracks, a rich childless housewife picking up the soldier for rough sex while her husband has a tryst with another man arranged by computer, and a wife who asks to be handcuffed to her bed while being videotaped by her lover.

The plot focuses on an ordinary family living in one village in the taiga. Father works as a driller and mother as a nurse. It would seem that everything is fine with them, but suddenly father begins to drink and draws his wife into it, leaving his son without supervision.

During an anniversary dinner, an undertaker is offended when someone jokingly offers a toast to the health of his customers. He claims that he will hold a house-warming party with his customers instead of his neighbors, only to find out later that his invitation has been accepted.

Long before FW Murnau's head went for a little walk without his body, the most celebrated cinematic corpse-napping was the theft of Charlie Chaplin's remains from his Swiss grave.

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