Valery Kravchenko

The invasion of a village in Belarus by German forces sends young Florya into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family's wishes. There he meets a girl, Glasha, who accompanies him back to his village. On returning home, Florya finds his family and fellow peasants massacred. His continued survival amidst the brutal debris of war becomes increasingly nightmarish, a battle between despair and hope.

A large government official from Moscow, having come to rest at home, falls into a trap organized for him by two sisters working in the former state house. Sincerely falling in love with one of them, he does not suspect that he is becoming the object of blackmail ...

This charming comedy tracks the lives of several romantic pairs through trials and tribulations. The main focus of the story is a young soldier with a good heart but little ambition and his fiancée, who feels torn when a charming and sophisticated intellectual enters her life and sweeps her off her feet. There are also several side stories, also all dealing with relationships, most significantly the soldier's mother, whose comfortable but unexceptional marriage is threatened when a past love returns to her life.

About the incredible adventures of hallucinating teenagers from a children's colony, who, as a result of a scientific experiment by their teachers, end up in the "Wild West", among space monsters, in a world of fantastic nature and all sorts of political situations. Some become a cowboy, some become Hitler, some become Emperor Paul I, etc. Three colonists, with the assistance of one of the teachers, actively resist these experiments...

​Young soldiers in the Soviet Internal Troops are subjected to systematic abuse during their dedovshchina (hazing). The plot unfolds primarily aboard a prisoner transport rail car guarded by a unit of paramilitary conscripts.

About the first expedition of Shura, a graduate of the Geological Institute, and her first love.

A train passenger discovered a bag containing money from the sale of a house was missing. All passengers on the train are suspects.

A story of a Moscow's apartment building that is slowly falling apart, literally. First, the hot water has been cut off by an old man from Asia, who could not stand it being wasted. Then the roof is starting to collapse. Finally, the electricity has been cut off. All the tenants of the building, no matter how different they were, find themselves in the same situation.

Ivan Mazaev finds out that some children were left behind in a sinking school, and is slowly driven mad as he tries to save them. A parable on the theme of The Last Judgment, numerous catastrophic events reveal a certain ambiguity in their origins, accompanied by the terrible suspicion that the things going on are some kind of a performance or theatrical production.

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On the same day, Andrei's wife Nina asks for a divorce, his colleague Natasha tells him she's attracted to him, he's assigned a new project under the direction of Philip (a well-dressed, authoritative, and even arrogant stranger who keeps touching him), and he fights a gang of homophobes to protect a young gay man, Oleg. The next day, Philip takes Andrei away from the office on an odyssey into a space that is charged with spirituality and homoeroticism. Philip is no businessman, and the disclosure of who he really is forces Andrei into a series of choices that involve Natasha, Nina, belief, and love.

Three astronauts (two Russians and American) find a very Soviet-alike small town on the fourth planet from Sun.

In 1942, the Far North was home to an icebreaker, almost devoid of weapons. Despite this, it stood as a formidable force, blocking the path of a German cruiser. Led by Captain Anatoly Kacharava, a small detachment of sailors held back the enemy for over three hours. This daring act thwarted Operation Wunderland, a meticulously planned Nazi operation aimed at preventing a Soviet convoy from delivering essential supplies to Arkhangelsk.

The political drama is set in the Stalin's Soviet Union after the Second World War. A British archaeologist Andrei Miller is working in Iran. He is mistakenly kidnapped and arrested by the KGB. He is falsely accused of spying and wrongfully sentenced to a Gulag prison-camp in Siberia.

The unexpected death of his brother, a fishery inspector, changes the life of a drunken former athlete who was predicted to have a brilliant career. Suspecting local poachers, he decides to take revenge...

Nikolai (played by Sergei Dontsov) has been fired from his job as a music teacher and has to live in the gym until he finds a place to stay. Finally, he gets a communal room in the apartment of Gorokhov (Victor Mikhalkov). The room's previous inhabitant, an old lady, has died a year ago, and yet her cat, Maxi, is still in the locked room, healthy and fat. Soon, Nikolai and his neighbours discover the mystery: there is a window to Paris in the room. That's when the comedy begins - will the Russians be able to cope with the temptation to profit from the discovery?

An almanac of short feature films based on stories by Mikhail Mishin from the collection of short stories "Pause in a Major".

A young man is abducted by mafia and forced to work in the underground factory.

Upset after a failed audition actor "vote a ride" driven by a pretty young woman. Suddenly they become hostages of the bandits seeking to get out of the city with the cargo received at the airport…

A young fitter at a bus stop accidentally pushed a girl, and she fell. This is how they met, although both are dating their other halves. One day, he gathers friends to build his dream house overnight. He found her at a roadside restaurant, and they walked through the forest all night, and in the morning he puts her in the car and takes her away.

Based on V. Chachin's short story "Ilyich's Smile".

The hero of the film, a Komsomol member of a large youth construction site, decides whether it is possible to sacrifice people's lives in the name of a great goal.

Vasily Kutuzov, the namesake of the famous commander, ends up in a mental hospital because of his talent for making up jokes. Everyone in his family had this gift, and many suffered because of it. The authorities didn't like that the Kutuzovs were bothering people. Vasily's neighbors in the ward are all famous people who left a mark in history. So he amuses them until the doctors decide to cure him of this "disease"...

The film tells the story of the life of an Old Believer community at the beginning of the last century. The drama of an unusual life, a story of love and human passions.