20 years old Lenya lives in ordinary country town - there are a lot of such tows in Russia: town, which has only one kinder garden, one school and one factory. Therefore while man is growing up, he doesn't have to choose nor kinder garden, nor school, nor factory: everything is already defined. Lenya is ordinary boy: like other boys of his age, goes to discos to dance with girls, after fights with local hooligans. Everything is fine, because everything is clear.
Suddenly factory closed, and order leaves the main hero's life. For the first time he has to make choice - for the first time he seriously starts thinking, what he would really like to do in this world… Further life forms from sequence of meetings with different people. Lenya is seeking for a job, and without any difficulties gets the best variants, each of them provides future, prospects and new world: friends, teachers and geography.
But because of different, more casual, reasons Lenya doesn't agree to accept any of these jobs. Only a place of learner in the road worker brigade has interested him - too charming and unusual seemed brigadier Roslov. But idol appeared not so honest and fair proletarian…
Cast: Aleksandrs Jacenko, Darja Jekamasova , Jevģēnijs Sitijs, Pjotrs Zaičenko, Boriss Petrovs, Tagirs Rahimovs, Ņina Semjonova, Aleksejs Ošurkovs
Directed by Boriss Hļebnikovs
An explosion in Moscow will happen in exactly 48 hours. This is the last piece of information an agent passed before his death. All special forces are called to help the investigation, but most are hoping the recently established independent operations group will aid the rescue. A young woman- hacker, who once broke into the Pentagon server; former special forces agent who loves speed and adrenalin; a woman psychologist, whose looks take over her brains and her Major rank for most; and a blind man, whose intuition and sense of smell replace him vision…
And the Boss- the only one who managed to get them together and who can control them. This team are the only ones who, knowing WHEN, can figure out WHO, and most importantly WHERE…
He was condemned to death, but survived to wreak revenge for the murder of his clan. The last member of the clan of the Grey Dogs became a fearless warrior by the name of Wolfhound. After cheating death in the mines, Wolfhound sets out on a journey with his constant companion, the Earthbound Bat. Wolfhound has but one desire - to destroy the Maneater, a merciless warrior who slaughtered the village of the Grey Dogs.
New epic fantasy movie from Russia has the biggest budget in the history of post-USSR cinema history!
Cast: Alexander Bukharov, Oksana Akinshyna, Igor Petrenko, Andrei Rudensky
Directed by Nikolai Lebedev
Summer of 2006. The asphault melts down from an unexampled heat, exhausted townspeople hide under the trees. Four bosom friends, ex-classmates, meet with each other after a long separation. During those three years they lived their lives differently… But this hot day will become a lucky one for them. In 24 hours each of them would find what they have desired the most.
The crew and actors of Russian blockbuster "9th Company" present a new lyrical comedy "Heat". The film features Fyodor Bondarchuk, Aleksei Chadov, Tigran Keosayan, Konstantin Kryukov, Mikhail Porechenkov, Irina Skobtseva, Artur Smolyaninov, Timaty.
Once a mad mother drowned her three little daughters overnight.
Some years later, already in a mental hospital, she was herself murdered with three types of cold steel. Witnesses said that it was done by three teenage girls...
The ghosts of the dead daughters took vengeance on their mother, but neither was their thirst of revenge quenched, nor did their hatred dispel.
A deadly chain reaction was put into action: for three days they watched the one who saw their victim last. As soon as this person did anything wrong, the ghosts held their merciless trial.
They have great power. And this power is growing.
They cannot rest in peace. Maybe they're not just ghosts.
They are...
Cast: Jekaterina Seglova, Mihails Dimentjevs, Artjoms Semakins, Alisa Grebensikova, Mihails Efimovs, Elena Morozova, Nikita Emsanovs.
Directed by Pavels Ruminovs
Europe, 1709. Russia and Sweden are at war. Two French duelists are exiled by King Louis XIV of France: one to the side of Czar Peter the Great of Russia, the other to the side of King Charles XII of Sweden. Although separated by war and allegiance, fate has not finished with them.
Cast: Dmitry Miller, Alexander Bukharov, Nikolai Chindyaykin, Darya Semyonova, Alexei Chadov.
Directed by Oleg Ryaskov
Janu Nakts (St. John's Night) is a traditional Latvian celebration during which family and friends gather to build bonfires, barbecue, drink and generally have a good time. According to legend, lovers and those who would like to fall in love, can search the woods for the "magic fern" on this night. This magic fern serves as the focus and pivotal point of the six stories in "Midsummer Madness" It is also a metaphor for the film's underlying theme - finding love. "MIDSUMMER MADNESS " is reflected in the recurring element of the magic fern, a metaphor (both in the film and in real life) for love. The question posed by the film is: can a search for love ever be successful? Each story deals with this question. An answer is provided at the film's conclusion in a humorous and unforgettable way: we see the legendary fern, glowing magically in a meadow. It exists after all! Then a cow ambles along and eats it. The deeper message, which is not obvious to the audience, is therefore: Yes, a search for love can be successful, though we are generally unaware of how to deal with it.
Cast: Maria de Medeiros, Dominique Pinon, Orlando Wells, Tobias Moretti, Chulpan Khamatova, Gundars Abolins, Aurelija Anuzīte, Janis Blums, Birgit Minichmayr
Directed by Alexander Hahn
Fjodor unexpectedly find out about his black brother who is living in children's house and has a lot of bad habits. Fjodor and Gena have to go a very hard way to understand each other. When Fjodor took away Gena from children's house he begins to fight against prejudices which surround his own world and even with some very close people.
Casting: Andrei Panin, Done Lema, Gennadi Nazarov
Directed by Andrei Panin, Tamara Vladimirceva
Script: Natalya Nazarova
Producer: Ruben Dishdishyan
Russian language with latvian subtitles.
Contemporary Moscow. Danya, a struggling actor, has just lost his girlfriend. His troubles soon multiply when his younger brother Dima shows up at his apartment with a friend who has a bullet in his stomach.
Russian legendary director Nikita Mihalkov presents the new historical epic about Distemper times in Russia, when, in 1612, people's home guard drove away Polish conquerors from the Kremlin and the legendary tsar dinasty of Romanovs was established... After tsar Boris Godunov's death, his widow and young heir Fyodor were killed. Russia went into chaos...
Cast: Mikhail Porechenkov, Artur Smolyaninov, Andrey Fedortsev, Alexander Baluev, Marat Basharov
Directed by Vladimir Khotinenko
"12 angry men" (working title) - remake of original american movie by Sidney Lumet. Play, on which is based movie, was first theatrical event for young student of the Schukin theatrical masterschool - Nikita Mikhalkov.
New movie is a story of 12 jurors, who must decide is 18-years old boy guilty in his futher's death. Film is a reflection about what is freedom. The main character is Chechen boy.
This is a chamber movie, the act takes place in one room. Mihalkov is convinced that nowadays the film, which was revelation of world cinematograph of 60-ties, needs quiet new movie language that won't leave modern audience indifferent. All the roles will play Russian movie stars.
Cast: Ņikita Mihalkovs, Sergejs Makoveckis, Sergejs Garmašs, Aleksejs Petrenko, Valentīns Gafts
Directed by Ņikita Mihalkovs
The film tells the story of Natalia, 35, who at the age of 16 was married off under compulsion, directly from the orphanage. In an isolated house in the countryside Natalia lives a hard and solitary life together with her spouse, a brutal and narrow-minded man. After the death of her unloved husband Natalia gains a second life, the real one. She opens her eyes to a new world, free from habit and prejudice, imposed by the will and force of others. Natalia changes rapidly as the world around her begins to play an important role in her story. The open spaces, the river and the forest participate in the creation of a new Natalia; the same does her encounter with the trucker Sergei. From now on she is in the mood for love… This ingenuous story told in a contemporary cinematographic language conceals a kind of parable: whatever happens to you, there still remains a possibility for happiness and freedom.
Cast: Ksenija Kutepova, Dmitrijs Djuževs
Directed by Vera Storoževa