Based on the novel by Booker Prize Winner Ludmila Ulitskaya, The Funeral Party is set in August 1991. In a sweltering New York City apartment, a group of Russian émigrés gathers round the deathbed of an artist named Alik, a charismatic...

Photo studio "Contemporary" in a provincial town lives with its everyday problems. The director is concerned over the failure to fulfill the planned targets, receptionist Alevtina wants to get married, and photographer Vladimir Oreshnikov...

It is the New Year's Eve and the employees of an Economics Institute are ready with their annual New Year's entertainment program. It includes a lot of dancing and singing, jazz band performance and even magic tricks. Suddenly, an...

The small town agog Hussars entry. Love between cornet and the young actress suddenly faces intrigue made by a St. Petersburg bureaucrat. The actress father dies after being involved in this game and perspectives look dark... But evil will...

Una situación excepcional que se ha producido en una empresa de construcción ha hecho que se convoque una reunión extraordinaria del Comité del Partido. Es inhabitual el tema a discutir: el equipo de Potapov al completo ha renunciado a...

A philosophical and poetic portrait of the famous (or maybe infamous?) Baron Munchhausen. His crazy, yet very merriment, stories, views and behavior is what sets him apart from others. He becomes alienated from the society that failed to...

An unnamed hero roaming the streets of St Petersburg is befriended by a beggar with a donkey and a slightly deranged prostitute.

A touching story about a white Gordon Setter with black ear, who became homeless because of his master's illness. His master, Ivan Ivanovich, a man far from being young, fond of hunting and nature, took a puppy to live with him, despite...

The heroes of the movie last seen each other on the Belarusian railway station in the summer of 1945. A quarter-century, they meet at the funeral of comrade.

La acción se ambienta en la costa este del mar Caspio, la actual Turkmenistán, donde el Fyodor Sukhov, soldado del Ejército Rojo, ha luchado durante la guerra civil durante muchos años. Tras ser hospitalizado y licenciado, durante el...

Lenfilm's most recent major production spins a kind of historical fantasy based on real incidents that's full of ominous implications for today. One night, a patrol rushes into the chambers of the Russian prince Pavel, son of the Empress...

Campaña napoleónica de 1812. Rusia contempla el implacable avance de las tropas napoleónicas hacia sus fronteras. La idílica vida de los miembros de la alta sociedad (el príncipe Andréi Bolkonsky, el soñador e idealista Pierre Bezukhov o...

A short movie and university exercise filmed in 1981.

Adaptación de la famosa novela de Dostoievski. Rodion Raskolnikov, un estudiante de San Petersburgo sin recursos económicos pero con síntomas de megalomanía, asesina a una usurera a la que considera una lacra social. Tras cometer el...

A comienzos del siglo XV, el monje pintor Andrei Rublev acude junto con sus compañeros a Moscú para pintar los frescos de la catedral de la Asunción del Kremlin. Fuera del aislamiento de su celda, Rublev comenzará a percatarse de las...

Based on the play of the same name by Leo Tolstoy. The Russian nobleman Fyodor Vasilievich Protasov cannot put up with the hypocrisy of his environment, but is powerless to fight it. He begins to drink, leaves the house and gradually...

In December 1825, distinguished members of the Russian military, most of whom were quite affluent and of noble lineage, took it upon themselves to stir revolution against the autocratic and tyrannical Czar Nikolai I in the wake of his not...

Veronika y Boris se juntan en Moscú poco antes de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Caminando a lo largo del río, ven las grúas volar sobre sus cabezas y prometen encontrarse antes de que Boris se vaya a luchar. Boris se pierde la reunión y se...

An unemployed astrophysicist finds a job of a docker at a grocery store, where he falls in love with a street-wise saleswoman in the produce department. But the groom runs away at the wedding reception.

One of the most popular movies tells, in an ironic manner, about complicated relationships between close people. Among the film’s achievements is not only splendid acting, but also the fact that “Kinfolk” remains as contemporary and...

Spring of 1918. Tarakanov, managing the estate of Prince Tikhvinsky, with the help of a former court fencing teacher Marquess and a street kid Keshka, is stealing a collection of paintings and sculptures from the abandoned estate owners....

Russian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin's Great Purge. Ivan Lapshin, the head of the local police, does what he has to do. And he does it well.

В послевоенные годы неимущий школьный учитель физики Лопаткин изобрёл революционный метод изготовления двухслойных труб для химической промышленности. Попытавшись внедрить изобретение, он столкнулся с враждебностью отраслевых бюрократов во...

Un condecorado y reverenciado héroe de guerra disfruta de la compañía de su familia en un tranquilo día estival, cuando de pronto recibe la visita inesperada de un hombre al que no veía desde hacía años. Conforme transcurre el día y se...