The Criminal Quartet

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.

Contact between most towns on Earth has been severed. A small ring-like area in Eastern Europe still has electricity, and maybe even life is being reported from space. What military forces find outside the ring is shocking.

The propaganda film follows a romantic liaison between a young woman who is a supporter of the Euromaidan, and a man who joins the Russian invasion troops in the aftermath of Euromaidan‘s success.

On August 24, 1981, the newlyweds Larisa and Vladimir Savitsky stepped on board the plane following the flight Komsomolsk-on-Amur - Blagoveshchensk. 30 minutes before landing, the civilian aircraft AN-24 collided with another aircraft and broke into pieces at an altitude of more than 5 kilometers above the ground. No one was supposed to survive ... but a miracle happened. Larisa Savitskaya woke up in the middle of the wreckage of the plane in the impenetrable taiga. Now she herself had to create a real miracle, which only a strong-minded person is capable of.

The film covers the heroic defence of the Brest Fortress, which was attacked during the first strike of German invaders on June 22 1941. The story describes the events of the first days of the defence, including the three main resistance zones, headed by the regiment commander, Pyotr Mikhailovich Gavrilov, the commissar Efim Moiseevich Fomin and the head of the 9th frontier outpost, Andrey Mitrofanovich Kizhevatov. Many years later veteran Alexander Akimov again recalls the memories of the time, when he, then a 15 year old Sasha Akimov was deeply in love with the beautiful Anya and suddenly found himself in the middle of the bloody events of war.

Professor Gromov constructs a robot called Electronic, which looks exactly like Sergey Syroezhkibn, a 6-grader from one of Odessa (USSR) schools. The robot also acts a lot like a human, and its dream is to become a real man. Electronic escapes from the professor's lab and accidentally meets Sergey, his prototype. Meanwhile, a gang lead by Stump is trying to kidnap Electronic to make him steal pictures from museums. For this purpose they send their hitman Urrie.

When intoxicated by alcohol, Dasha inexplicably finds herself in the bed of a wealthy foreigner from a luxurious restaurant, where she and her friends visited the day before. The man offers the girl a marriage proposal. It seems that everything is set for a happy family life - a lot of money, a beautiful, intelligent and loving spouse, expensive clothes. However, for life this is not all that is needed.

Holmes receives a message from Inspector Gregson about a strange case in an abandoned house on Brixton Road: the body of an elderly American was found there, and the word "Revenge" is written in blood on the wall.

Two school friends have not seen each other for twenty years. During this time, one became an aircraft engineer, the other a gold digger. Quite by chance, they met in a small town in the far north, and this meeting leads both to incredible and amazing adventures.

Dr. Watson, who served in the English armed forces and was in the Afghan war, retires and returns to his homeland, in England. Since the financial situation of the doctor is very precarious, his long-time friend Mr. Stamford offers him to rent a room in the house at 221-B Baker Street, which is rented by an elderly lady - Mrs. Hudson. The second rented room is already occupied by another gentleman - the mysterious Mr. Sherlock Holmes. Holmes makes an ambiguous impression on Watson. He conducts complex chemical experiments with blood, plays the violin, has the deepest knowledge about cigar ash, London dirt and criminal law, but at the same time demonstrates complete ignorance of well-known truths (for example, the fact that the Earth revolves around the Sun), does not read fiction, as well as books on history and philosophy. At the same time, very strange visitors constantly come to Holmes, and on the table he has portraits of personalities of a disgusting appearance.

The fishery supervision employee is killed. During the investigation the public law enforcement official has looked out on the trace of the illegal grouping which has serious reasons for the commission of more considerable crimes than the illegal animals killings.

During the main withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, a company of hardened paratroopers under the command of Major Bandura are joined by Steklov, the son of a high-ranking officer.

Student Rodik Samarkin, grandson of the famous scientist-archaeologist, goes with friends to Kozary in search of ancient scythian graves. Not believing in the effectiveness of the expedition, the guys come back, leaving Rodik alone…

A film based on the story of the same name by Grigory Gorin. An employee of a certain SRI Potapov is a liar and an opportunist. But he does not even know that he is committing low things.

The classic story about a musicians from Bremen is told in not so classical way.

In the city, people disappear and die under mysterious circumstances. Commissioner Gard and Inspector Taratura believe that all these murders are the result of a war between two mafias. But journalist Chester has a different opinion. He is sure that the crimes are the result of the activities of "Adventure Firm" company. The company sells adventures to everyone who wants to tickle their nerves. The most expensive and interesting adventure is the “adventure without guarantee,” but in this case the company is not responsible for the possible death of the client. Wanting to understand the company's activities and write a report about it, journalist Chester buys himself the deadliest adventure....

A romantic and funny fantasy about the events occurred during the building of a first railroad in Russia.

Spring of 1584. The Magi predict the death of King John within 24 hours. Warring boyars are rebelling and are ready to unite against Boris Godunov. The royal court is in turmoil. The already unstable moral principles become completely unbridled. Moscow is filled with violence, drunken orgies and the wild revelry of tsarist power.

An ordinary working class boy, like all his peers, he played football day and night and dreamed of being a striker. But no matter which team he played for - in the yard, at the factory, or in the army - he was inevitably put in goal.

Arina is young, reach and independent woman. She's married to a wealthy businessman. But deep inside she's still looking for a true love.

A lonely old man wants to try to correct the mistake of his youth and find his disabled son, whom he abandoned 40 years ago.

A slice of life among Russian intelligentsia on the eve of WWII. A haunting reminder of Stalin's psychotic purge of 1938 and the nightmarish German siege of Leningrad.

A criminal story which started when a young bartender Mikhail lost all his money and decided to robe a private diamonds collection.

A funny musical based on the comedy "The Duenna" by British dramatist Richard B. Sheridan.

A young aristocrat, Aleksei Fedyashev, is languishing in his family's country estate, spending his days reading poetry and confessing his love... to a statue. Upon hearing that famous Count Cagliostro is touring Russia and has created quite a buzz in high society with his "magic", he decides to ask the Count to bring the statue to life...

The story how he will never see her and she will never forget him.

Oleg learns the intricacies of working in a bank, and here he meets the manager Veta. They begin a romance that will change the lives of both. Veta dreams of being close to Oleg, but for this he needs to divorce Katya...

Harry Palmer heads a private investigation business based in Moscow. His associates are Nikolai "Nick" Petrov, ex-CIA agent Craig, and ex-KGB Colonel Gradsky. They take on the job of finding 1000 grams of weapons-grade plutonium stolen from the Russian government, though they do not know the identity of their client.

An escaped prisoner, breaking the laws of hospitality, kills the dog of a boy whose grandfather gave him shelter. He placed a sharp piece of metal in a piece of meat. The police arrived and shot the dog. The boy grew into a small, pitiful, absurd, side-eyed man, who froze his genital organs while rescuing a dog, unable to have children, which his wife complains about very much. He works as a driver. While transporting a white piano from the collective farm to the club, he turns off the road so as not to run over the sheep, and the car falls into the river. A white puppy follows him everywhere and creepy and funny stories constantly happen. But he lives his dreams, writes poetry, his only friends are dogs - he gets kicked out of work, his wife leaves him. The real trouble comes - war.

Six novellas present eight people who resolve to commit suicide. The stories interweave moments from disparate lives, each born of despair and urgent choice.

The Battle of Moscow is a 1985 Soviet multi-part war narrative, presenting a dramatized account of the 1941 Battle of Moscow and the events preceding it. The battle was the first major defeat of German Wehrmacht in the Second World War.

The conflict between the young school teacher Studentsov and the head teacher Lukyanova divided the residents of the village of Zhukovka into two parts. The eighth graders supported their teacher, who was genuinely worried not so much about the fate of each pupil as for the future of the hopeless village.

The cartoon tells the story of a fabulous creature named Bambre. He lived completely alone and frightened everyone who was approaching him, and his tail was kind and prevented him from doing dirty tricks. Once Bambre found friends and became kind.

An emergency occurred in the tenth grade of one of the city schools. Disrupting the peaceful flow of a literature lesson, former student Sasha Tsymbaly burst into the classroom and slapped Sonya Zhuravleva across the face. The stunned principal ran to call the police, while the students sat at their desks as if nothing had happened. No one stood up for their classmate's violated honor. What was going on? Could it be love?

In Russia in the late 1960s, Elena will do anything to see that her son Yuri succeeds as a pianist: she longs for him to win a competition that will send him to Paris. To ensure his success, she denies her love for an iconoclastic painter for whom she models, prostitutes herself to a Party figure, encourages her son to break with his true love because the girl is a Jew, and, in general, behaves in paranoid ways, believing, for example, that a new lodger, Evgeny, is a KGB spy. She also has her own family secrets, which she will go to any length to keep her son from learning.

A wealthy American businessman, Mr. Clarke, forces his dissolute but charming nephew James to go with him to Russia, where he buys a Faberge watch that belonged to Nicholas II himself. He is received by Mr. Borsch, who dreams of becoming a minister by signing a lucrative contract. A representative of a Japanese company, nicknamed the Samurai during the auction, is hunting for the same watch. Borshch's wife also "laid eyes" on an antique watch, and a talented thief leaves the prison. All the participants of the future adventures met at the restaurant, where James met the beautiful niece of Borsch's wife. Mr. Clark flies to Namibia, instructing his nephew to put the watch in the hotel safe. Naturally, on the same evening, the watch is stolen...

A story about one day in the life of insurance agent Vissarion Bulkin. In the life of each of us there are days that turn our whole life upside down. Here and for the hero of the tape once came such a day.

In the late Soviet era, a poet faces a midlife crisis.

A film almanac consisting of two short stories, united by a common idea of the need to maintain harmony between private and public interests: “Suite” and “One Fine Day”. The hero of the story ”Suite" is a lifeguard on the shore. The events taking place at sea do not bother him at all. To the music of Bizet, he dreams of Carmen, her exploits, valor and strong love... The hero of the short story “One Fine Day”, a promising researcher, one morning saw a spaceship from his balcony. Do this a little restlessly to his mother-in-law, neighbors, acquaintances, boss and, finally, to a psychiatrist...

The fox takes advantage of the kindness of the animals. Cartoon in verse, voiced by Harry Bardin and Nikolai Karachentsov.

In the densely populated slums live large but poor family of charming and talented signor Leonido Popogatto. Under the guise of an important person he enters the secular parties and steals drinks and food from the tables.

Life and works of V.I. Lenin during the difficult period for the country of 1918.

Boy Borya reads a book about pirates instead of doing homework. He tears off the handkerchief from the parrot's cage, flaps it and exclaims: "I would like to be on an uninhabited island!" The mirror on the wall grows and opens directly to a tropical island, Borya's desire is fulfilled. Quite quickly, Borya discovers the magic properties of the scarf and calls friends to him: Yura and Mila.

A teleplay based on the play of the same name by E. Volodarsky.

With World War I, the Bolshevik Revolution, and the Russian Civil War as backdrop, it's an old-fashioned, blood-and-guts narrative, filled with earthly humor and a wealth of colorful characters. The story concerns the fluctuating fortunes of Grigory Melekhov, a young Cossack who is both a hero and a victim of the uprising.