A semi-fictional account of the life of Russian poet Joseph Brodsky, who was forced into American exile in 1972.
An elderly monk, while training the young novice who will succeed him, recalls the mysterious lost love of his past - just as his young successor appears to be encountering her himself.
An exploration of 20th century Russia, following the fusing of the Party and the state after the Russian Civil War, which opened the doors to corruption, resulting in the exiling of the left and right opposition. Described using a combination of historical settings, biographies and masterpieces from Russian avant-garde artists, composers and writers from this period in history.
An animated film based on the tale of Tonino Guerra, telling the story of the once famous circus duet - the lion and its owner, the story of how the famous lion Amadeo performed in the traveling circus of Signor Peretti.
Film by Andrey Khrzhanovsky based on the works of Joseph Brodsky.
The film is about the transformation and inner liberation of the protagonist, who found himself in the bleak sequence of everyday life of an office worker.
Trying to cure a patient, a psychiatrist falls into the fictional world of his patient.
A story of friendship and of how the tadpole transformed into a frog, the caterpillar into a butterfly, but the little rabbit didn't transform into anyone.
This is the amazing story of a pranky dwarf who helped Dr. Piatkine heal horribly obedient children who were over-educated.
A film based on Boris Shergin’s story “Mitya’s Love.” Mitya, a shipbuilder, walked to a theater in Solombala from Arkhangelsk. Along the way, he ran into a wind. Near him a girl, Maria Ivanovna, flew Mitya helped her fly to the theater and fell in love with her. They were able to confess their feelings for one another, but Maria Ivanovna then disappeared. What is Mitya to do? He decided to go around the whole city to find her. In the film, images by avant-garde Russian artists Mikhail Larionov and Natalia Goncharova and naïve artists Pavel Leonov and Lyubov Maikova are used.
Triumph and collapse of hope - the whole life of the Russian scientist Nikolai Miklouho-Maclay passes in an instant, at the last moment of earthly existence... Two worlds: the world of civilization and the world of nature exist simultaneously, next to one planet, but it seems that the distance between them is like from Earth to the moon. The film uses drawings and diaries of Nikolai Miklouho-Maclay, whom the Papuans called the "Man from the Moon" and revered as a deity.
On the eve of the wedding Mother Nyurka heats up the sauna, and the household spirit makes sure that the whole wedding company get their long-deserved thrashing.
This story is about two orphaned girls from a village who are brought to live with a distant relative in the city. Throughout the film, the relative is trying to decide whether to keep them or to hand them over to an orphanage. It is also about the boy Kolka, who has a dream that is completely incomprehensible to adults, which is driving his cantankerous grandmother up the wall.
When her parents are gone for their jobs, a little girl goes everywhere around the house to find her teddy bear, instead of playing the piano she was supposed to.
One day in the life of the strange inhabitants of a small village hidden in the rocks by the sea. A mysterious crime happens in front of witnesses.
Collective work of students Of the school-Studio "SHAR". In the summer of 2018, all of them were gathered by George Boguslavsky and sent around the city to observe Moscow life. And then I covered the Windows with a black cloth, and the students drew, smeared, and scratched on celluloid scenes from the life of summer Moscow.