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 character beloved by them all, especially the women who take turns nursing him as he fades from this world. Their reminiscences of the dying man and of their lives in Russia are punctuated by debates and squabbles: Whom did Alik love most? Should he be baptized before he dies, as his alcoholic wife, Nina, desperately wishes, or be reconciled to the faith of his birth by a rabbi who happens to be on hand? And what will be the meaning for them of the Yeltsin putsch, which is happening across the world in their long-lost Moscow but also right before their eyes on CNN?

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 dreams of becoming a professional photographer. But suddenly luck smiles on Oreshnikov. He takes 20 rubles form the worker's mutual aid fund, buys a government lottery bond and wins 10,000 rubles. Oreshnikov wants to receive the win himself, but his colleagues object to him, because the money that he spent on the bond were public, hence the win should be divided equally among all workers. It creates a controversial situation, which is successfully resolved on the very eve of the New Year, under the chiming clock...

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 announcement is made that a new director has been elected and that he is arriving shortly. Comrade Ogurtsov arrives in time to review and disapprove of the scheduled entertainment. To him, holiday fun has a different meaning. He imagines speakers reading annual reports to show the Institute's progress over the year, and, perhaps, a bit of serious music, something from the Classics, played by the Veterans' Orchestra. Obviously, no one wants to change the program a few hours before the show, much less to replace it with something so boring! Now everyone has to team up in order to prevent Ogurtsov from getting to the stage. As some of them trap Ogurtsov one way or another, others perform their scheduled pieces and celebrate New Year's Eve.

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 eventually be defeated by the nobility, loyalty and love.

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 recibir una prima porque les parecía que no se la merecían.

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 grasp his brilliance. In fact, his brilliance is what underlines the faults with the society itself. It's a beautiful yet tragic story that is filled with dense and intellectual dialogue.

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 dog's black ear being a "shame of nature" to his breed. The man always took his dog, whom he called Bim or Bimka, to hunting in country. Later, however Ivan Ivanovich began to have problems with heart and when the disease became worse was taken to a hospital. His dog couldn't bear waiting for the only person that ever cared for him and set out to find his master. Thus began the story of a homeless dog and his many breathtaking and exciting adventures, encounters of many people, kind and evil, and leads to an unexpected and heart-rending end.

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 regreso a su hogar junto a esposa, se ve atrapado en el desierto en medio de una pelea entre una unidad de caballería del Ejército Rojo y rebeldes Basmachi. Sukhov termina custodiando el harem del caudillo Bashmachi, Abdullah, cuando sus camaradas del ejército lo persiguen. La tarea resulta ser peor de lo imaginado, y entre los ataques de los Basmachis y los ofrecimientos del harem, Sukhov debe lidiar con Vereshchagin, un borracho antiguo oficial imperial ruso que todavía cuida el puesto fronterizo comercian y el museo donde se cobijan...

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 Catherine; the Empress has died, and Pavel is to be anointed the new Tsar. Thought to be feeble-minded at best and crazy at worst, Pavel soon lives up to his enemies' fears: he dismisses long-serving courtiers, demands that peasants only work three days a week, and declares that state officials should start their days at 5 am. Soon, it seems that everyone who can is trying to hatch some kind of plot against him - including his own sons. Sumptuously designed, POOR POOR PAVEL constrasts the imperial splendor of the court with the sordid atmosphere of conspiracies and backstabbing that comes to define these characters' lives.

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 la joven Natacha Rostova) sufrirá un dramático cambio. Antes, los aristócratas, la gente corriente y los siervos vivían en mundos completamente diferentes. Ahora, la necesidad de defender la patria los ha convertido en compañeros de armas.

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 crimen, su vida se debate entre el amor que ha despertado en él Sonia, una joven prostituta, y el peso de los remordimientos que lo igualan al resto de los mortales...

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 torturas, crimenes y matanzas que tienen aterrorizado al pueblo ruso... La biografía del pintor ruso Andrei Rublev -Andrei Rubliov-, famoso por sus iconos, sirve de base para hacer un minucioso retrato de la vida social, política y artística en la Rusia de principios del siglo XV.

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 falls. The behavior of Protasov helps to bring his wife Liza closer to a longtime friend of the family, Viktor Karenin. Unable to endure the lies and humiliation associated with the upcoming divorce proceedings, Fedya pretends to commit suicide and seemed to forever leave his family. It is only due to the accident that it becomes known that Fedor Protasov is alive. Liza, reconciled with the death of her husband and became the wife of Karenin, is summoned to court on charges of duality. To stop the stupid and deceitful comedy of the court and rid the shame of innocent people, Protasov shoots himself.

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 honoring the drafting of a constitution for the Russian people. The revolution failed miserably and the conspirators (known as the Decembrists) were weeded out by the czar himself. One by one, each of the conspirators confess and are systematically exiled to the harsh winters of Siberia, slated to work and wither in a prison/mine. The wives of the conspirators are faced with the prospect of leaving the bosom of wealth and family (including their own children) to be with their husbands in the brutal Siberian locale. If they agree to this, they face having their illustrious social stations stripped away and certain disdain from everyone around them...

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 dirige al frente, mientras Veronika espera pacientemente, enviando cartas fielmente. Después de que su casa es bombardeada, Veronika se muda con la familia de Boris, en compañía de un primo con sus propias intenciones.

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 topical as before. The relations between a son-in-law and a mother-in-law are as everlasting a theme as love itself. Especially when the role of the son-in-law Stasik is brilliantly played by Yuri Bogatyryov, and that of the mother-in-law by the incomparable Nonna Mordyukova. Marusya Konovalova, a kind, simple-hearted country woman, comes to Moscow to visit her only daughter (Svetlana Kryuchkova) and tries to help “glue together” her broken-up family. Acting with best intentions, she cannot understand why her interference provokes a stormy protest… Ruscico.com

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. Hoping to transport her abroad, criminals wander with a circus troupe, and in their wake goes a tireless criminal investigator — Makar Ovchinnikov.

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 главе с директором трубозавода Дроздовым, пошёл на принцип, в конечном счёте сел за вредительство, но не сломался. У моральной победы, одержанной рационализатором, был и плотский, осязаемый символ — красавица Надежда Сергеевна, жена карьериста Дроздова, ушла к Лопаткину и осталась верна ему до конца.

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 acerca la noche, el coronel descubrirá el verdadero motivo de la visita. Lúcida denuncia de las purgas stalinistas.