A story of a Moscow’s apartment building that is slowly falling apart, literally. First, the hot water has been cut off by an old man from Asia, who could not…
A guy called Harlequin and his company, who call themselves “wolves”, live at a stop near the city, where they often go to “relax” – in search of thrills. And…
Yevgeny Yevstigneyev, Georgy Burkov, Leonid Yarmolnik, Galina Polskikh in a sad comedy by Sergey Nikonenko based on Vasily Shukshin’s short stories “Touches on the Portrait”, “The Stubborn One”, “The Strong…
Daughter and husband of a teacher of the high school live in the old house at different floors of multifamily unit. When the former wife gets to hospital the girl…
Defeating the terrible dragon, the soldier Ivan returns from the war. The Far Far Away rejoices. The king, also Ivan, is very pleased. He awards the namesake with an order…
The final film of the television series “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.” It is based on the late and little-known stories of Arthur Conan Doyle, united by…
Four school graduates congratulate their teacher of mathematics Yelena Sergeyevna on her birthday and ask her to return them their graduate works on mathematics in order to change them before…
A starship crashed on an uninhabited planet and its crew had to abandon it. Years later the survivors and their children try to return to the ship and send a…
This bleak late soviet-era drama follows the career of Malyanov, a young medical school graduate who has been sent to work in Turkmenia. Here he runs into a hodge-podge of…
Roman Baskin’s debut as a film director is an allegorical story of a man (Sulev Luik) who happens to step out of a train in a small town named Vernanda….
Multiple-value and tangled relationships between servant and boss… Imperceptible displacement of recognizable reality… Metaphysical dimension of our lives…
Two parents put their child in his crib for the night and leave the room. The child starts crying, and the Cat comes into the room to keep him company….
This is a story of a war between two powerful criminal gangs and their ‘dons’ (vory v zakone) in the communist Soviet Union. Corruption, cynical rhetoric, deaths of innocent people.
Forty-year-old researcher Pavel is still single. And not because he likes to be free and unmarried, but because he is very indecisive – he does not know how to meet…
At the beginning of “perestroyka”, city authorities are getting ready for another event in keeping with the spirit of stagnant times. A director with a rather “unyielding” character is assigned…
A story about a young woman, Vera, who is somebody, living the life of a troubled teenager in the time right before the end of the Soviet Union. She lives…
In 1953, the year Stalin died, many prisoners (some political, but mostly common criminals) were released from the Soviet Gulags. This is the story of a remote settlement which was…
Moro returns to Alma-Ata to collect money owed to him. While waiting out an unexpected delay, he visits his former girlfriend Dina and discovers she has become a morphine addict….
Wandering minstrel Ashik Kerib falls in love with a rich merchant’s daughter, but is spurned by her father and forced to roam the world for a thousand and one nights…
Old Prof. Preobrazhensky and his young colleague Dr. Bormental inserted the human’s hypophysis into a dog’s brain. A couple of weeks later, the dog became “human looking”. The main question…
A crew of builders in charge of demolition of old buildings in Moscow find hidden treasure inside one of the houses scheduled for demolition. The plot evolves around their attempts…
With a brother dedicated to punk rock stardom at any cost and a drunken father who chases skirt between robotic dancing lessons from the TV, young Senka stands as much…
Five people who have recently reached their middle-ages are driving through Estonia to visit a famous witch-therapist to get rid of their problems. But isn’t it just weariness of life…
The animation is made using quotes of Medieval Persian Poetry, to tell a fairytale love story between an wandering poet and a princess. To win her (and half the kingdom)…
I know these were glasnost days, but still, I’m a little surprised filmmakers were out there doing stuff like this. There’s nothing overtly anti-communist in this piece, but it ain’t…
A 20 minute masterpiece with no dialogue necessary. A King of the Forest gathers elves, sprites, and other assorted woodland spirits for a night of festivities. The spirits frolic, dance,…
One of the most structured of Yufit’s reels with an elaborated montage work. This film combines three diverse worlds in an absurd manner to show the author’s passion for black…
In 16 X, the camera’s gaze is fixed directly upward. This is the reverse of the classic Rodchenko aerial photographs of the 1920’s. Here the Kopystianskys’ camera follows the route…
