Natalya Kolyakanova
1955 (70 лет)Taxi Blues
Pavel Lungin
Pyotr Mamonov, Pyotr Zaychenko
Ivan is old Russia: thick, dour, hard-working, often brutish; he misses Communism. He drives a taxi and one night meets Alexi, a new Russian, a musician, an alcoholic, irresponsible. Alexi stiffs Ivan for the fare, so Ivan tracks him down and a love-hate relationship ensues. When Alexi lets the bath water run over in Ivan's flat and Ivan must pay 500 rubles for repairs, he tries to force Alexi into day labor to repay him. It's hopeless. Then, suddenly, Alexi is discovered, goes on a jazz tour of America, becomes a celebrity, and returns in triumph. Ivan longs to renew the friendship, and it looks as if he may get what he wants.
Taxi Blues
Detskiy sad
Evgeniy Evtushenko, Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Galina Stakhanova, Svetlana Yevstratova
The movie reminiscence of the Soviet poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko about the military childhood when he one reached the Siberian Winter station where he was waited by the grandmother. The way was unusually long, cold, hungry and angry.
Kindergarten
The Wedding
Pavel Lungin
Marat Basharov, Mariya Mironova
The beautiful Tanya returns to her small mining town, after supposedly working as a model in Moscow. She decides to marry her shy school sweetheart Mishka, who now works in the mine. The miners finally receive some pay, but Mishka still ends up with no money to buy his bride a gift, so he seeks the help of his perpetually drunk buddy Garkusha. Mishka's poor working-class family all help to put on a fine wedding with copious amounts of vodka, even though they are suspicious of Tanya's occupation in Moscow, and of her connection with her Mafia ex-boyfriend Borodin.
The Wedding
Слушатель
Vladimir Zaykin
Dmitriy Dyuzhev, Nikita Vysotsky
Жизнь 32-летнего президента преуспевающей фирмы Сергея Петрова рушится в одночасье. Он теряет все: деньги, социальное положение, дом, семью, работу — и оказывается на улице. Однажды, скитаясь по городу, герой встречает своего бывшего однокурсника, а ныне мелкого жулика Кулему. Вместе с ним Петров приходит в бюро по трудоустройству, где ему предлагают работу… «Слушателя». Так он попадает в семью Федуловых, где и начинает «работать» — выслушивать брань и оскорбления всех обитателей дома, не рискующих открыто высказываться друг перед другом. Вскоре в доме появляется старшая дочь Федуловых — Марина, сбежавшая от подлеца-мужа. Стычки Петрова с Мариной незаметно перерастают в нечто иное… И когда беды и неприятности героев доходят до предела, когда все буквально подходят к грани отчаяния, как это всегда и бывает в новогоднюю ночь, свершается чудо… Открываются неожиданные факты, которые круто меняют ход событий и дарят героям долгожданное счастье!
Listener
Anna Karamazoff
Rustam Khamdamov
Jeanne Moreau, Yelena Solovey
This film is of interest primarily because it contains within it the entire surviving footage of an unfinished 1974 film by the same director, Slave of Love, which was successfully remade shortly thereafter by another director, Nikita Mikhalkov.The "cover" story is about a woman (Jeanne Moreau) newly released from prison camps in the 1940s back into Russian society, who finds that there is no place for her in the world she has come back to. However, this painterly film is so filled with striking and surreal imagery that it would be misleading to say that the story is of any great importance in relation to that.
Anna Karamazoff
Tycoon
Pavel Lungin
Vladimir Mashkov, Mariya Mironova
During the Gorbachev years, Platon Makovski and his four buddies are university students who jump on the private capitalism movement. Fast-forward 20 years, Platon finds himself the richest man in Russia, having sacrificed his friends to get to the top. But with this cynical rise, comes a brutal fall.
Tycoon
Прорва
Ivan Dykhovichnyy
Ute Lemper, Aleksandr Feklistov
Драма бывшей дворянки, ставшей в 30-е годы женой сотрудника НКВД, и почти анекдотическая история о том, как для парада маршалу Буденному готовили ретивого жеребца и, в конце концов, "подсунули" проверенную кобылу. Показаны реалии жизни верхушки Госбезопасности, их обычная и "сладкая" жизнь со своими радостями, интригами, изменами и трагедиями... Россия, что прорва, которая засасывает и уничтожает.
Moscow Parade
Ленинград. Ноябрь
Andreas Christoph Schmidt, Oleg Morozov
Mikhail Dementyev, Gregory Hlady
After a ten year long stay in West Germany, Max returns to the Soviet Union to visit his deadly ill father in Leningrad. There he finds a friend in a man who calls himself Igor and he begins a love-affair with the deafmute Lena. Around Max' relationship to his father, Igor and Lena, losely held episodes give a many fasetted portrait of Leningrad and its inhabitants. In the eyes of the returning Max, the city is at once well-known and foreign. Lyrically saturated images and sophisticated editing contributes to making the film an expressive description of a changing city.
Leningrad. November
Москва
Aleksandr Zeldovich
Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė, Tatyana Drubich
Moscow, the 90s ... A city without a past and without a future. A city that doesn't forgive mistakes. Showing Moscow bohemia, the criminal business: nightlife, easy money, excitement and confusion form the surface of this life. The main characters of the film are businessman Mike and his friend and partner in smuggling Lev, a psychiatrist Mark and his school friend Irina who became the mistress of a nightclub, her two daughters - a crazy Olga working in the same club as a singer, and Masha - the “Moscow Princess” on the threshold of her thirtieth birthday. Love stories smoothly flow into a crime drama.
Moscow
Бедные родственники
Pavel Lungin
Konstantin Khabenskiy, Natalia Koliakanova
Shameless slimeball Eduard "Edik" Letov - clad in an everpresent Hawaiian shirt - puts the sting on alien travelers hoping to connect with their roots, by having local phonies pose as the visitors' long-lost relatives. Complications abound when Letov attempts to pass off an entire village under the guise of a community wiped out during the Second World War. The arrival of a group of trouble-causing misfits, among them mobster Barukh - who wishes to bury his mother's remains, only to discover that someone keeps exhuming them - and the lech Simon - a Canadian with an insatiable fetish for his sexy translator - turn Letov's latest scheme into a veritable cat's cradle.
Roots
Похороны Сталина
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Denis Konstantinov, Evgeniy Platokhin
1953 year. Moscow says goodbye to the leader. In the funeral crowd, Eugene met with Elya. During the long hours spent in the funeral procession, they managed to learn a lot about each other ... But Elia absurdly dies. So Zhenya begins another, adult life ...
Stalin's Funeral
Дама Пик
Pavel Lungin
Kseniya Rappoport, Ivan Yankovsky
Once upon a time, the great soprano Sofia Mayer conquered the world with her voice, her beauty and the legend she carefully built around herself. Now only the legend remains — the diva herself hasn't performed for years, nor been seen in the glittering circles of society she once dominated. But the woman who fascinated and thrilled the world for so long would like to crown her career with one more triumph. And she'll use every dirty trick she knows to achieve it.
Queen of Spades
Постельные сцены
Kirill Serebrennikov
Aleksandr Sirin, Iya Savvina
Seven interconnecting stories that take place in Russian bedrooms. These include a son visiting his complaining bedridden mother, a middle-aged couple bickering, one soldier bullying another in an army barracks, a rich childless housewife picking up the soldier for rough sex while her husband has a tryst with another man arranged by computer, and a wife who asks to be handcuffed to her bed while being videotaped by her lover.
Bed Stories
Отдамся в хорошие руки
Nataliya Novik
Ekaterina Kudrinskaya, Denis Nikiforov
Meet the Solntsevo family - three crazy kids with no parental supervision, living in a hovel in the middle of Nowhere-on-the-Black-Sea. When their shack blows up, what can they do? Flee to Moscow in search of food, love, happiness and Mom - with one of their fathers locked in the trunk and the police close behind. Take this scenic road trip, Russian-style, starring some of the cutest soon-to-be-international stars and a hairless dog.
Get That Girl
