Svetlana Obidina
1975 - 2020The Island
Pavel Lungin
Pyotr Mamonov, Viktor Sukhorukov
Somewhere in Northern Russia in a small Russian Orthodox monastery lives an unusual man whose bizarre conduct confuses his fellow monks, while others who visit the island believe that the man has the power to heal, exorcise demons and foretell the future.
The Island
Prestuplenie i nakazanie
Dmitriy Svetozarov
Vladimir Koshevoy, Andrei Panin
Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-law student, kills an old pawnbroker and her sister, perhaps for money, perhaps to prove a theory about being above the law. He comes to police attention through normal procedures (he was the victim's client), but his outbursts make him the prime suspect of the clever Porfiry. Meanwhile, life swirls around Raskolnikov: his mother and sister come to the city followed by two older men seeking his sister's hand; he meets a drunken clerk who is then killed in a traffic accident, and he falls in love with the man's daughter, Sonia, a young prostitute. She urges him to confess, promising to follow him to Siberia. Will he accept responsibility? (From IMDB Crime and Punishment (1970))
Crime & Punishment
Belaya belaya noch
Ramil Salakhutdinov
Artyom Tsypin, Sergey Barkovsky
A detective film with some serious depth. Called back from Moscow on a search for a missing person, this is a story of a man forced to plunge into the past, reminded at every turn of the previous life he led in Saint Petersburg. He must come to terms with the present to move forward - and on top of it all, he's not even sure he's awake. The over-arching presence of St Petersburg, sometimes benign, sometimes threatening, bears witness to his journey.
A White White Night
The Edge
Alexey Uchitel
Vladimir Mashkov, Anjorka Strechel
The action takes place shortly after the end of the Second World War in the Siberian hinterland, among Russians and Germans with damaged personal stories and a strange transformation: the victors seem to be crawling into the skins of the defeated, and vice versa. Ignat, is the embodiment of the larger-than-life image of the Soviet victorious warrior who, in fact, proves to be shell-shocked, sick and broken, although not completely destroyed. Trains become fetish for the heroes of the film, and speed becomes a mania; they virtually become one with their steam engines, while the machines take on human names. The heroes set up an almost fatal race in the Siberian forest, risking their own lives and those of others.
The Edge
Dovlatov
Alexey German Jr.
Milan Marić, Данила Козловский
Dovlatov charts six days in the life of a brilliant, ironic writer who saw far beyond the rigid limits of 70s Soviet Russia. Sergei Dovlatov fought to preserve his own talent and decency with poet and writer Joseph Brodsky, while watching his artist friends got crushed by the iron-willed state machinery.
Dovlatov
The Duelist
Alexey Mizgirev
Pyotr Fyodorov, Vladimir Mashkov
Returning to Saint Petersburg after a long exile, the dashing Yakovlev, a retired army officer, makes a comfortable living by winning other people's duels. An enigmatic, focused, and extremely skilled professional, he leaves a trail of dead bodies behind him as he swirls through polite society, frequently called upon to wield a pistol as a surrogate in duels at dawn. But when Yakovlev meets the naïve young Prince Tuchov and his beautiful sister, Princess Martha, the normally cold-hearted mercenary is surprised by hitherto undetected emotions. What transpires uncovers a series of revelations about his past and his present self.
The Duelist
Суходол
Alexandra Strelyanaya
Yana Esipovich, Oleg Garkusha
This story unites the destinies of the landowners and their servants, and is considered to be one of the most complete portraits of the Russian life in the late XIX century. It takes place in Dry Valley, a village owned by the noble family of Khrushevs. The story tells about Natalia, a young and naive girl who serves in their country house. We see and experience her love, dedication to her masters, mysticism, exile, betrayal and faith, while the Dry Valley is falling to pieces, slowly but inevitably, as well as the lives of its inhabitants.
The Dry Valley
Связь
Avdotya Smirnova
Anna Mikhalkova, Mikhail Porechenkov
Ilya lives in Moscow; Nina lives in St. Petersburg. Ilya has a beautiful wife and a daughter; Nina's husband is an artist, and they have a young son. Nina occasionally travels to Moscow to see her partners in the publishing industry. Ilya sometimes comes to St. Petersburg on business. But more often they are in the train between St. Petersburg and Moscow just to see each other. Because they have an affair.
The Connection
Ничья
Elena Lanskikh
Olga Malakhova, Vyacheslav Baranov
A 15-year old Vika has to grow up. Only yesterday she was just a teenager and now she’s a mom. Catching sidelong scowls of adults, being mocked by peers, unbearable responsibility – it seems like the entire world is against her and Vika is all by herself. More truly, she has a child now, she’s not all alone.
Unwanted
Skaz pro Fedota-streltsa
Sergei Ovcharov
Konstantin Vorobyov, Andrey Myagkov
Fedot the Shooter is sent by the Czar to find some special food for the foreign ambassador's visit. During the hunt Fedot meets his love Marusya - the magical bird-woman. Evil Czar and his no-less-evil sidekick General with the help of the local witch Yaga try to eliminate Fedot by giving him more and more complex quests and to take Marusya to Tsar's palace. Marusya helps Fedot to solve the quests successfully.
The Tale of Fedot, the Shooter
Breaking Loose
Alexey Uchitel
Artur Smolyaninov, Aleksey Mantsygin
Four best friends. They've been to war, they've seen life, but they are still passionate, young and willing to serve their country. They found their place at OMON - Russian Special Police Squad. They can count only on each other, and their real family is themselves. After working hours they become simple guys with ordinary dreams like family and comfort. But life changes when once in a night club the friends incidentally get in a fight with the local mafia. It turns out that they have no fear and they are ready to stand for each other whatever happens.
Breaking Loose
Европа - Азия
Ivan Dykhovichnyy
Maxim Britvenkov, Dmitriy Dykhovichnyy
Где-то на Урале, там, где европейская часть России отделяется от азиатской условной границей, установлена стела «Европа-Азия». Это место облюбовали профессиональные аферисты. Который день подряд у дороги «гуляет свадьба». Под фатой невесты, в костюмах жениха и свидетелей прячутся обманщики, цинично и филигранно берущие в оборот каждого встречного путешественника. Мошенники «раскручивают» проезжающих на денежные подарки молодоженам, щедро потчуя гостей разбавленным спиртом. Под руководством «мамы невесты» группой разыгрываются невероятно смешные криминальные постановки, а их зрителями, соучастниками и жертвами становятся пиарщики и политтехнологи, китайцы и венгры, милиционеры и бандиты, нищие дети кочевой национальности и, конечно, иностранные туристы, ностальгирующие по когда-то покинутой России…
Europe - Asia
Яр
Marina Razbezhkina
Sergey Anufriev, Roman Artemyev
Yar is a place that keeps people, and they can't part with it. If they leave, they will die. The only one who wants to escape from the Yar is our main character Karev. But leaving the Yar, he thereby breaks with all traditional values, and unwittingly becomes the cause of the death of people dear to him...
The Hollow
