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Zlodiy

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Thirst and hunger push the country boy to a seemingly innocent act: he drinks steamed milk right from under a neighbor's cow. But the family of the local rich regards the boy's act as a crime and decides to teach the audacious.

Flights in Dreams and in Reality

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Oleg Yankovskiy, Oleg Menshikov

On the eve of his fortieth anniversary Sergei Makarov looks back at his life and learns that he has achieved nothing. He was not able to be happy and to bring happiness to the closest people in his life, neither to his long-suffering wife nor young mistress nor friends nor work... It is about the men who never grew up and could not find themselves in the time of stagnation – gifted, charming, but infantile and lost, they never were able to realize themselves...

Kashtanka

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Vyacheslav Borisov, Lev Durov

The lost dog Kashtanka is picked up on the street by circus actor Monsieur Georges. He gives her a new name - Aunt and, having prepared a number with her, begins to perform in the circus. Their performances are very successful.

Храни меня, мой талисман

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Oleg Yankovskiy, Tatyana Drubich

The setting for this off-beat drama of love and jealousy is the Pushkin Poetry Festival in Boldino. Liosha and his wife Tania are walking through the plush forest around Boldino when a mysterious figure pops up from behind a tree and asks the couple a question on an esoteric point of Pushkin scholarship. From that strange beginning, the man, whose name is Klimov, starts to ease himself into the couple's private space, and trouble ensues. Complementing this story is the festival itself, enactments of Pushkin's works, and emotional debates among the festival-goers over the meaning of his poetry.

Бирюк

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Mykhaylo Holubovych, Oleg Tabakov

Based on one of Turgenev's Hunter's Sketches: the Lone Wolf of the title is a forest caretaker for a flippant aristocrat. Though he lives in absolute misery in a hut deep in the woods with two small children to take care of, he's feared for his merciless stalking of the starving serfs who sneak in to cut firewood.

Ночь светла

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Olga Sutulova, Vladimir Gostyukhin

Two young teachers In a home for deaf-mute and blind children decide to see if the children they are in charge of are capable of falling in love, but their experiments have unfortunate consequences.

Поцелуй

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Oleg Yankovskiy, Aleksandr Abdulov

The film is based on the short story by Anton Chekhov. Gentlemen invited to tea by the local landowner, a retired major-General von Rebbeca.. Lieutenant ryabovich lost in the darkness, in the rooms of the old house, suddenly kissed a stranger.

Филёр, Filyor

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Oleg Yankovskiy, Aleksandr Vokach

1916: on the verge of being evicted from his apartment, unable to find a job, with a desperate wife and a sick child, a man wrestles with his conscience about whether to turn police informer for money.

Леди Макбет Мценского уезда

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Natalya Andreychenko, Aleksandr Abdulov

Katerina Izmailova, a beautiful and uneducated merchant's wife, feels lonely and bored somewhere in the Russian provinces while her older husband is often away. Years go by in her childless marriage, without an outlet for her youthful energy, resulting in constant idleness and frustration. Along comes Sergei, an unscrupulous young worker who is happy to improve his lot by seducing Katerina as he has done with others before. Katerina falls for Sergei, and this love quickly becomes her only reason for living, turning to destructive passion and ultimately to tragedy for many.

We Are Here. We Are Close

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Akhtem Seitablaiev, Kateryna Molchanova

Alex, an experienced surgeon, makes a mistake in the diagnosis of his seven-year-old godson. The boy dies on the operating table. Stunned, the man tenders his resignation. One autumn morning he is sitting on the riverbank in a favourite place where he used to fish with his godson. Suddenly he notices the figure of a shapely semi-naked girl emerging from the fog. She is shivering with cold. Alex spontaneously offers his help, and thus becomes part of an incredible adventure story.

Райские птицы

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Oksana Akinshina, Oleg Yankovskiy

The events of the film take place in the Soviet Union in the early 1980s. It is forbidden to listen to foreign radio stations, it is not safe to voice one’s opinions in front of strangers. Words of truth are spoken only in private kitchens behind the curtained windows. The KGB tap phones, survey the ‘unreliable’ and consistently step by step destroy all forms of decent. The protagonists challenge the inhumane state machine, putting on stake their very lives and proving that nothing and nobody can stop a person who is on his way to achieve a true freedom.

Эффект Ромашкина

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Mikhail Derzhavin, Roman Tkachuk

A musical comedy about the adventures of four friends who are trying to film a yogurt commercials.

...Первая любовь

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Marina Neyolova, Anna Mikhalkova

Based on the story of the same name by I. Turgenev. A story about the romantic feeling of falling in love with a young man for whom everything is for the first time.

Две луны три Солнца

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Vladimir Mashkov, Elena Shevchenko

A prosperous and calm life in an instant explodes into a monstrous event, and nothing will ever be the same again. A terrible bleeding scar remains in the soul forever. One fine day, a young and charming archaeologist Alexei, five minutes later a doctor of science, learns that his sibling was buried alive. And the brother’s killer is alive and left unpunished. Blinded by grief, Alex decides to kill ...

A Night at Paradjanov's Museum

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The film is a unique tribute of the director to his master. The space is empty, in the sense, there are no people there, but the items live their peculiar life until the rooster cries out. And that is be the rooster Parajanov made, God knows of what kind of improvised material at hand. It feels like the wind is a night walker here and it turns over the pages of the books. Glass breaking can be heard. The good thing is there are enough collages made of phials and luxurious tableware set fragments. The dolls sit on the frames, letting their legs hang, just like they do in daytime, but something mystical, something fateful appears in them. And Parajanov is close, built-into some other life, in epaulets or even with the people of past epochs. The lamps are switched on, even the oil stoves – everything is the way Parajanov liked. But then it is daybreak already, the rooms are filled with sunlight, and everything changes.

Verbnoye voskresen'ye

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Impressionistic short student film set on the title day.