Babylen Tatarsky has found a place for himself in modern times. He works at an advertising agency that introduces and adapts foreign brands for a ‘Russian mentality’. This clever and sometimes unbelievably funny film, rife with special effects and surprising revelations uses simple language to talk about a complicated situation, in which former Young Pioneers have to start a new life in the advertising industry.
The film is an adaptation of Victor Pelevin’s novel Generation ‘П’. Throughout the plot, many hallucinations are used, including Che Guevara’s speech on the degrading influence of television on humans. However, within this deformed reality a carefully reconstructed atmosphere of 90s Moscow (the background of the film’s action) can be clearly felt.
Cast: Владимир Епифанцев, Михаил Ефремов, Андрей Фомин, Сергей Шнуров, Владимир Меньшов, Иван Охлобыстин, Рената Литвинова и др.
Directed by: Виктор Гинзбург
Crime and punishment – this theme is immortal. Boris Godunov is about conscience and existential choice, connected to the history of a nation. Pushkin himself has stated that in this work, they are tangled in a mysterious knot or pattern. Our choice can also be history’s choice. One wrong individual decision can cause a fatal chain of events. Furthermore, if this person has been granted power, it can affect the whole country.
Cast: Максим Суханов, Ольга Гутшмидт-Остроумова, Михаил Козаков, Андрей Мерзликин, Петр Федоров, Дмитрий Певцов и др.
Directed by: Владимир Мирзоев
He is a clerk, she – a museum employee. He has come to a small provincial town to help the district governor seize the museum’s land in order to build a new residence. But his meeting with Her changes not just his opinion on the situation, but his entire viewpoint on life...
Cast: Федор Бондарчук, Ксения Раппопорт, Ирина Розанова и др..
Directed by: Авдотья Смирнова
This story is about a love between a journalist.. and a Yeti. Six months ago, somewhere in the Ural taiga, TV journalist Larisa Debomonova disappears. No one knows where she has gone. But let’s watch this hour-and-a-half film to the end. We might be able to detect some tracks...
Cast: Александр Стриженов, Екатерина Вилкова, Кристина Бабушкина, Павел Деревянко, Юрий Колокольников
Directed by: Григорий Константинопольский
There is no theatre-goer who would refuse to go backstage. Rehearsals and creative talks in the wings, parties and intrigues, flirts and tears, success and failure… This is what Viktor Shamirov’s comedy is about. Ironically and skilfully the film tells about the life of a touring company of actors – that life which is hard and cruel, mysterious and attractive, ridiculous and tragic. A small group of Moscow actors goes on tour to several large Russian cities. The circumstances, events and motifs of the heroes are largely borrowed from real events which happened in the lives of the authors.
Cast: Viktor Shamirov, Gosha Kutsenko, Konstantin Yushkevich, Pavel Savinkov, Ksenia Radchenko
Directed by: Viktor Shamirov
Black and white 1960s style. Zhuzha likes the twist and Gerard Philippe movies. Petya plays the dulcimer and loves his Moskvich with the engine of a Zaporozhets. The third person doesn’t like talking about himself, and in his presence everyone else should shut up too...
The film Indifference was created as a declaration of love. Filming began in 1989, but it could not be completed, and the director returned to the material 20 years later.
Cast: Fyodor Bondarchuk, Aleksandr Bashirov, Olga Shorina, Sergey Bragin, Artem Prokin, Alexei Taratorin, Yuri Pavlov, Alexander Sazonov, Andrey Abramov, Andrey Romanov, Dmitri Nezhvedski, Inna Vikhodtseva, Nikolay Kokhturev, Elizaveta Buzdakova, Vera Panfilova, Aleksey Kozin, Oksana Litvinova, Yulia Sokolova
Directed by: Oleg Flyangolts
The passengers of an evening flight have fastened their seat belts and are ready for take-off. But the flight is postponed until the morning. The passengers unfasten their seat belts again and leave the terminal. Drops of slanting rain gleam under a streetlight. In a puddle two female silhouettes are reflected. Two women, casual fellow travellers, embark on a journey into the Moscow night... They change cars and their mood changes; they race along the ring road and the boulevards; they cry and laugh: it seems they can do anything during this strange night, as if they had dropped out of real life. They can do anything: suffer, love, hate. There is only one thing they cannot do: part. One single idea moves them, one passion: its name is MAN.
Cast: Vera Voronkova, Nadezhda Mikhalkova, Sergey Gazarov, Mikhail Porechenkov, Artur Smolianinov, Pyotr Fedorov, Anton Shagin, Mikhail Yevlanov etc.
Directed by: Alisa Khmelnitskaya, Rezo Gigineishvili
The legendary Shamahanskaya Queen, who has driven many kings and mere mortals mad, has her eye on the king of Kiev. He falls ill with a strange affection for her. But in order to deliver this wonder-goddess safe and sound to Kiev, three strongmen receive an urgent call on their vacation: Alyosha Popovich, Dobrynya Nikitich and Ilya of Murom. Now they have to decide what to do - all kinds of gossip are circulating about the Shamahanskaya Queen, but they are sorry for the king too.
Cast: Dmitri Bykhovski, Valeri Solovyev, Oleg Kulikovich, Sergey Makovetskiy, Anna Geller, Konstantin Bronzit etc.
Directed by: Sergei Glezin
Bibinur is already of age, and her last dream does not bring happy tidings. She sees herself, aged five, walking through a blossoming orchard, beckoned by her dead relatives sitting in the trees. Bibinur realizes she has only five days left, and she must use this time to set the old debts straight to pass on to the other side peacefully. Suddenly the usual quietness of the village is disturbed by the arrival of businessmen and landowners who start fixing shady deals. One of them spends the night at Bibinur’s house, where he is about to have several surprising revelations.
Cast: Firdaus Akhtyamova, Ernest Timerkhanov, Ruslan Mustafin
Directed by: Juri Feting
It is Saturday, April 26th 1986, and a reactor has just exploded in the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. The Party leadership is silent, the population clueless. Only the loyal Party member Valery attempts to flee the invisible danger with his girlfriend Vera. But the vitality and high spirits of his merry-making friends keep him firmly in their grip... The story of the apocalypse in the Ukrainian village Prypiat has stirred the fantasy of the acclaimed Russian scriptwriter and director ALEKSANDER MINDADZE (Russia, 1949), who has created a surreal drama about the dance on the edge of a volcano. One of the most exquisite qualities of the film is its cinematography by the distinguished Romanian cinematographer Oleg Mutu.
Cast: Anton Shagin, Svetlana Smirnova-Marcinkevich, Vasilij Guzov, Aleksej Demidov
Directed by: Aleksander Mindadze
A year later the men are still talking, but this time on the 31st of December and still about the women (there are more women now: Alena Babenko, Nona Grishajeva, Jekaterina Vilkova,), football, children, and, of course, about the approaching New Year’s celebration. But what can they do, if their beloved wives and girls are waiting for them at Kamil’s, busy with New Year tree decoration and cooking, and the husbands are accidentally got stuck in the advertising agency office? Will they manage to get home in time to celebrate the New Year together?
New brilliant New Year’s comedy from ‘Quartet I’ ( What Men Are Talking About, Day of the Radio, Election Day) – What Else Are Men Talking About. The same characters, more humour, more funny jokes! New New Year’s Comedy in the cinemas starting 30th of December!
Cast: Леонид Барац, Ростислав Хаит, Александр Демидов, Камиль Ларин
Directed by: Дмитрий Дьяченко
Russia is celebrating New Year again! This time, it’s 2012, probably, the last New Year in the history of mankind! And as it should be, Russia is celebrating even crazier!
This comedy is a mix of comic and heartfelt stories. Nastya the little girl is writing a letter to Santa Claus about how she wants to desperately meet with her farther, whom she never met before. Some teenagers are planning to ride the city in a bathtub, and an evil official is looking for another victim to spoil their New Year’s mood. And wealthy businessman Boris is trying to find the meaning of life, for which he would literally need to go through a total recall. And, as he always does, his best friend Zhenya will give him a hand with that task!