The year 1829. Nikolay Gogol, a young Third Section clerk, is desperate: his own books seem shallow and mediocre, so he keeps buying entire print...

A mysterious Dark Horseman slays young girls near the village of Dikanka, and he has already butchered 11 ladies. Nikolai Gogol, a scribe from...

Aboard a ship early in the 20th-century, a middle-aged Italian tells his story of love to a Russian.

In a world after the nuclear apocalypse a scholar helps a small group of children and adults survive, staying with them in the basement of the...

Soon after Gogol's death, Binh names him guilty for the deaths of the Cossacks and the young women at the hands of the Dark Horseman, since he was...

Paul is agonising over his interpretation of 'Uncle Vanya' and, paralysed by anxiety, stumbles upon a solution via a New Yorker article about a...

Russian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin's Great Purge. Ivan Lapshin, the head of the local police, does what he has to do. And he...

A group of Russian noblemen want to maintain the monarchy and plan to kill Rasputin.

A young boy grapples with first love and his ambitions as a drummer during an eventful summer holiday.

A romantic comedy about a twenty three years old Kirill who suddenly decides to become a gigolo.

The protagonist finds out that some children were left behind in a sinking school, and is slowly driven mad as he tries to save them. A parable on...

Patients of an insane asylum, the last refuge of genuine feelings and, it seems, hopes that come true..

A junior employee of the Forest Research Institute is sent to collect mushrooms. In the forest, he meets a strange old woman, receives a silver...

Musical comedy based on the story of V.Shishkov "Divers", as well as Russian legends, songs, fairy tales and ditties. A scattering of mischievous...

Mother is eighty, Seva - sixty.That's the whole family right there. Seva spent his life looking after his mother. While he was at her beck and call...

The orphanage's pupils are sent by the district Komsomol committee to eliminate illiteracy in the remote village of Penki.

A young guy decides to try himself in a northern region of USSR after being honorably discharged from Soviet Army.

Dmitry Gromtsev was a volunteer to go the front where he was wounded. He couldn't get back to his beloved profession of musician. The movie tells...

TV director Pavel Prishvin is filming with his friend-filmmaker, whose film talks about Stalinism