This time, in keeping with the best traditions of the first two parts, Mothers tells a beautiful, fascinating, lyrical and funny story of the three mothers that takes place in a small European town on New Year’s Eve.
The three mothers are flying to Prague on New Year’s Eve. However, due to the weather conditions, the plane has to land in a small Polish town. While waiting for their flight, the three women decide to get to the town centre expecting to witness some New Year festivities.
They see an ancient fairytale town... with empty streets. Nothing like the bustling feast of life as the characters imagined. The mothers refuse to accept that and decide to have a proper New Year celebration in the Russian style.
Cast: Anastasiya Zavorotnyuk, Olga Volkova, Maria Syomkina, Garik Harlamov, Andrey Urgant, Timur Rodriguez, Yevheniy Smorigin
Directed by: Georgy Malkov, Emil Nikogosyan
Shurik, a young anthropology student arrives to the Caucasus to write an essay on ancient local customs. He falls in love with a young girl who is spending her holidays to her uncle’s place, not knowing that the later has agreed to offer her hand to a rich man and has arranged her kidnapping. The uncle decides to use Shurik to realise his mischief by explaining to him that the girl agreed to the wedding and that the kidnapping is only a part of the local folklore.
A new teacher, Zane (Inga Alsiņa-Lasmane) tries to befriend the class she is mentoring, but she goes too far -- at Zane's parties and on her field trips, the border between the teacher and the students begins to blur and dissolve. When one of her students falls in love with her, Zane find herself in a tangled web of personal conflicts.
A Russian pupils planning they school graduation party. School graduates dreaming about an unforgettable party, but teachers and conservative parents have more traditional point of view. The opposite intentions of two different generations makes school a place of fight between youngsters and teachers.
In hope to hit the Jackpot, Natalia's stepfather goes for financial venture, substituting his business partners by that. Without any words they organize an attempt to kill him. The whole family cries for Boris Ivanovich...but he in the coffin sees all of this. All he needs is to lie there 3 days and survive funeral, after this family will dig him out and he can sleep peacefully. And everything goes according to the plan of survived stepfather, until his battle comrade arrives. Vitaliy Karavai immediately wins hearts of all family, taking all the attention to him. Because of that stepfather asks his family to make a luxurious funeral with Svetlakov...
Cast: Sergey Svetlakov, Yulia Aleksandrova, Egor Koreshkov, Yan Canpick, Sergey Lavigin, Elena valyushkina, Aleksandr Pal, Valentina Mazunina
Directed by Zhora Krizhovnikov
The film, based on Nikolay Gogol’s famous novel The Government Inspector (1836), is a comedy of errors, and a blame of the greed, stupidity and pervasive political corruption.
Ivan, a heavily indebted hotel doorman, pretends to have a wealthy father who would be eager to pay off his son's debts. Ivan and a debt collector embark on a journey to what is supposed to be Ivan's father's farm. Due to a minor car accident, the two men find themselves in a strange town where they are mistaken for government inspectors and enjoy a grand reception…
Cast: Aleksandr Lykov, Aleksei Vesyolkin, Aleksandr Vorobyov, Antonina Divina, Vladimir Markin, Sergey Pavlov
Directed by Aleksandr Baranov
From old to young, from aristocrats to peasants, in big cities and small villages, at grand celebrations, home parties and WWI front lines – everything was different. Apart from people. They had the same emotions and anxieties: awaiting Christmas with hopes and fears, with love and dreams, with happiness and joy!
It's 1914. Russia just entered a war with Germany, and the Orthodox Church suggested that Christmas trees be banned as belonging to the Protestant tradition. Several people living in different Russian cities and belonging to different social classes join forces to defend the beloved Christmas’ symbol.
Two dogs in love, a spaniel called Yoko, and Pirate, a mongrel, are placed in a pet hotel on New Year's eve as their owners go away on vacation. Feeling insulted, the two dogs escape and return to their home, where they can enjoy eating, playing and sleeping in their owners' bed. But the lovers’ paradise is brutally interrupted when two burglars break in...
After their victory over the Snow Queen, the trolls have developed a taste for freedom. Having played a major role in the triumph, the troll Orm has become a hero to all. This is not enough for him, however. Comically exaggerating his exploits and achievements, he creates spins a web of lies, claiming that he personally defeated the Snow Queen, and that he is destined to marry the princess and inherit great power and riches... But where will Orm’s stories lead him?
In this lively and perilous adventure, Orm learns that friends, happiness, and true love cannot be won through deceit!
At school there are three wonderful couples which ends with three wonderful weddings and crazy honeymoon on the exotic and hot Cuba. But the first day of the long-awaited honeymoon ended in a giant brawl, passing in the eternal war of men against women. And in war, as in love, there are no rules!
Cast: Alexander Golovin, Denis Kosyakov, Roman Yunusov, Maria Kravchenko, Nastasya Samburskaya, Natalia Rudova, Tair Mamedov, Oleg Vereshyagin, Karen Mantashyan, Alexander Shalyapin.
Directed by Tair Mamedov.
Based on a story of Countess Bathory, a serial killer in 16th century Transylvania who supposedly killed hundreds of children.
Cast: Svetlana Khodchenkova, Isabelle Allen, Ada Condeescu, Lia Sinchevichi, Claudiu Trandafir, Valentin Teodosiu, Pavel Derevyanko, Paul Diaconescu, Sandu Mihai Gruia, Lucas Bond, Alexandra Poiana, David Petchu, Vladimir Grosu.
Directed by Andrei Konst.