Andrey Zvyagintsev

Cinema: A Public Affair

Tatiana Brandrup

Naum Kleiman, Maxim Pavlov

A cineastic journey into the world of Naum Kleiman, one of the most important intellectuals in Russia today. Naum Kleiman, an internationally acclaimed Eisenstein specialist, is the director of the „Musey Kino“, Moscow’s museum of cinema. Since 1989, the „Musey Kino“, has shown previously banned classics of world cinema and Soviet films. Many saw the „Musey Kino“, as Moscow ́s most important intellectual forum. In 2005, the Moscow municipality sold the „Musey Kino’s“ building and it became homeless. In October 2014, the Russian Minister of Culture fired Naum Kleiman as director. In protest, his entire team handed in their resignations. Scenes from iconic movies and interviews with Muscovites of different ages and social backgrounds form a documentary film collage which mirrors Russian reality today.

The Return

Andrey Zvyagintsev

Vladimir Garin, Konstantin Lavronenko

A story of two Russian boys whose father suddenly returns home after a 12-year absence. He takes the boys on a holiday to a remote island on a lake that turns into a test of manhood of almost mythic proportions.

Leviathan

Andrey Zvyagintsev

Aleksey Serebryakov, Elena Lyadova

In a Russian coastal town, Kolya is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. He recruits a lawyer friend to help, but the man's arrival brings further misfortune for Kolya and his family.

Loveless

Andrey Zvyagintsev

Maryana Spivak, Aleksey Rozin

Zhenya and Boris are going through a vicious divorce marked by resentment, frustration and recriminations. Already embarking on new lives, each with a new partner, they are impatient to start again, to turn the page – even if it means threatening to abandon their 12-year-old son Alyosha. Until, after witnessing one of their fights, Alyosha disappears.

The Banishment

Andrey Zvyagintsev

Konstantin Lavronenko, Aleksandr Baluev

While vacationing in the countryside at his childhood home, a woman suddenly reveals to her husband that she is expecting a child - but not his.

Elena

Andrey Zvyagintsev

Nadezhda Markina, Aleksey Rozin

Elena is a woman of a certain age, living in a chic Moscow apartment with her wealthy businessman husband Vladimir. While Vladimir is estranged from his daughter, he does not mask his contempt for Elena's own child, who seems to be in constant need of financial assistance. When Vladimir suddenly falls ill and his volatile, nihilistic daughter comes back into the picture, Elena must hatch a plan for her own survival.

What a Mess!

Vladimir Menshov

Valeriy Garkalin, Vera Alentova

The story starts in a Siberia where world's biggest diamond was found. It is so valuable that it may not only pay off the enormous national debt, but also allow every Russian citizen to move to the Canary Islands. However, Mafia plans to steal the massive gem but a notorious thief, Vasia, ruins their plans. Mafia and militia begin chasing him, but soon Vasia learns that he has brothers as between the chase he runs into well known Jewish conductor and a gypsy baron who are triplet brothers.

Apocrypha

Andrey Zvyagintsev

Carla Gugino, Quentin Mare

A young boy picks up his father's camera, with which he accidentally films a dying romance between a man and a woman-

Эксперимент 5ive: Тайна

Andrey Zvyagintsev

Igor Evseev, Irina Barinova

A very close-to-life story showing that some closed doors hide much bigger mysteries than you can imagine and it's better to leave them unopened. "Mystery" is the part of Experiment 5IVE.

Il était une fois... "Faute d'amour"

Olivia Mokiejewski

Andrey Zvyagintsev, Maryana Spivak

A documentary about the Russian movie "Loveless" by Andrey Zvyagintsev

Эксперимент 5ive

Pyotr Buslov, Andrey Zvyagintsev

Grigoriy Dobrygin

An anthology of five films of five minutes each by five well-known Russian directors, inspired and financed by the chewing gum company Wrigley.

Андрей Звягинцев. Режиссёр

Dmitry Rudakov

Andrey Zvyagintsev

Portrait of director Andrey Zvyagintsev against the background of the filming of his film "Loveless".

What Happens

Andrey Zvyagintsev

Котенок

Ivan Popov

Andrey Kuznetsov, Lyudmila Arinina

A kitten was bought for a girl at the bird market, and he became a favorite in the musician's family. But accidentally Tigrasha, as he was called, fell out of the window and hit the canvas roof of the Gazelle. As a result of a trip to New Year's Moscow, Tigrasha left far from his home. He was lucky - he fell into the hands of a lonely kind man who had already sheltered many cats in his little room.

Оставивший свет…

Evgeny Tsymbal

Anatoly Vasiliev, Andrey Zvyagintsev

Фильм посвящён памяти театрального режиссёра, актёра театра и кино Владимира Агеева. Его называли «главным алхимиком современной режиссуры». Ученик Анатолия Васильева, Владимир Агеев прокладывал собственный путь в искусстве. Поиски и исследования привели его к созданию своего творческого стиля, к «Театру тайны и радости». В фильме используются архивные записи репетиций режиссёра, фрагменты из спектаклей, в которых задействованы: Евгений Стычкин, Анатолий Белый, Агния Кунецова, Ольга Лапшина, Григорий Данцигер. В интервью своими воспоминаниями делятся коллеги и друзья гениального режиссера, среди которых: Анатолий Васильев, Римас Туминас, Андрей Звягинцев, Эдуард Бояков, Константин Райкин, Ирина Гринева, Алексей Багдасаров, Игорь Яцко, Ростислав Хаит.