Brother

Brother

Danila goes to his successful brother, Victor, in Petersburg to start a new life. Unknown to Danila, Victor is a contract killer, but is in hiding...

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Cargo 200

Cargo 200

While returning to Leningrad from a visit to his brother, Professor Artyom's car breaks down and he finds assistance at an isolated farmhouse...

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Peculiarities of the National Hunt

Peculiarities of the National Hunt

A Finn preparing a work on the Russian hunting traditions and customs, comes to Russia to collect materials and is invited to take part in a...

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Morphine

Morphine

The year is 1917. We are in the Russian countryside. It is the middle of freezing winter. A pale young, newly educated doctor arrives. Having to...

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A Woman in Berlin

A Woman in Berlin

A woman tries to survive the invasion of Berlin by the Soviet troops during the last days of World War II.

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I Am

I Am

The film tells the story of a young Russian in the early 90s, trying to escape the army in a psychiatric clinic. He's released years later, after...

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Chekist

Chekist

Srubov is a part of CHEKA, the secret police Lenin established after the Bolshevik Revolution. They arrest, interview for a minute, try in ten...

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Ivan & Abraham

Ivan & Abraham

In 1930s Poland Christian boy Ivan goes to live with a Jewish family to learn a trade. He becomes friends with Abraham, the son of the family...

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Operation 'Happy New Year'!

Operation 'Happy New Year'!

A comedy about a New Year Eve celebration in one very funny hospital.

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Zinky Boys Go Underground

Zinky Boys Go Underground

Thriller providing a chilling insight into the damaged psyche of Russian soldiers returning home from Afghanistan. Andrei is the drug-crazed leader...

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Tough Kids

Tough Kids

A former athlete runs a camp dedicated to reforming juvenile criminals, a tough job with no quick payoffs.

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Comedy of the Strict Regime

Comedy of the Strict Regime

The action is set in 1970 as the Soviet Union (and the entire progressive world) are preparing to celebrate Lenin's centenary. Not to be outdone...

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The Third Planet

The Third Planet

Drawing heavily from Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's 1971 novella 'Piknik na obochine' ('Roadside Picnic') as well as Andrei Tarkovsky's 1979 film...

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Once Upon a Time in the Provinces

Once Upon a Time in the Provinces

Sex, alcohol and violence define the people of a city in defeat in this downbeat drama from writer and director Katya Shagalova. As a teenager...

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Scream for Help

Scream for Help

Vocational school student, who took upon himself the guilt of another for a large sum of money, finds himself in a very difficult situation. None...

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Strangers

Strangers

A group of American doctors travel to a war-ravaged hot spot in the Middle East in order to distribute vaccines. They clash with the Russian...

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Living With an Idiot

Living With an Idiot

The main character is an intellectual from Russia, who sees it as his duty to bring an idiot from an mental institution to his house. He can pick...

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Act

Act

The film tells about the misadventures of an ordinary person who happened to have a suitcase with a lot of money... It turns out that it is not at...

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Argentina. Interview with a dead drug dealer

Argentina. Interview with a dead drug dealer

The philosophical parable of the spiritual rebirths of man. The plot is based on the life of a small drug dealer Ilya Krakowski, who sells drugs in...

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The Guard

The Guard

Young soldiers of the Soviet Internal Troops are brutally bullied during their time of Dedovshchina(hazing). The plot unfolds mostly on board of a...

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