This biographical picture that was made for the 200th anniversary of Nikolai Gogol,is filmed in the unique style of the author Leonid Parfyonov...

Second part of Documentary project

Parfenov's documentary is about a brilliant scientist and engineer, born in Russia, but only known on the other side of the ocean. The invention of...

The «Eye of God» is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Pushkin Museum. It shows how progressive and pro-West Russians can be, when it comes...

The history of Jewish people in Russia up until the 1917 revolution.

Biographical documentary about Mikhail Gorbachev and the way he did not waste his inner freedom before becoming General Secretary of the Communist...

The film is about the historical role of Georgians in Russian, and later - Soviet politics, culture and science. The heroes of the film are...

Leonid Parfyonov travels to Georgia, where he studies how amphorae are made and grapes are crushed with bare feet, and learns why orange wine is...

The film restores the panorama of the centuries. Journalistic narration with extensive use of artistic reconstructions, computer graphics...

A documentary about Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky, a pioneer in color photography of early 20th-century Russia.

Nadia Kuznetsova is 28 years old, she lives in Veliky Novgorod, graduated from school and University here, and dreams of going to the sea - and...

Third movie in the series.

The second part of Leonid Parfyonov's project "Russian Georgians" will begin with a story about Stalin's design of the Russian patriotic upsurge in...

The film is about what children and teenagers of besieged Leningrad survived. 14 surviving heroes and dozens of those for whom only lines of...

From the place where Joseph Brodsky died to the place where he was born, the distance is now insurmountable: there is no country or city where the...

This Soviet general was in a special account with Stalin and was known as his favorite. In December 1941, together with Zhukov and Rokossovsky, he...