Whispering Pages

As an adviser to the emperor Nicholas II, mystic Grigori Rasputin holds great influence over the empire. However, many in St Petersburg begin to regard Rasputin, with his strange practices and mesmerizing qualities, as a liability and plot his assassination. When Rasputin, known to many as the 'Mad Monk', leads Nicholas to embrace an ill-conceived military strategy, a group of determined conspirators set down a plan to eliminate him.

After an alien ship crash lands in a Russian city, many who see the inside and the occupants start to question their own existence while others demand the aliens leave Earth.

The story of Lyudmila Pavlichenko, the most successful female sniper in history.

1899, the Christmas-time St.Petersburg. Ice-covered rivers and canals of the capital seethe with festive activities. On the eve of the new century those who should not be destined to meet, come together. They are people from different worlds: Matvey, the son of a lamplighter, whose only treasure is his silver-plated skates; Alice is the daughter of a high-ranking official dreaming of science. Each of them has his own difficult life-story, but having accidentally met they rush forward together in pursuit of their dreams.

A poetic essay on the city of St. Petersburg in the 18th century, based on poems by Alexander Pushkin and Alexander Blok and a novel by Andrey Belyi. The film contains reworked footage from Aleksey Batalov's "Overcoat", Eisenstein´s "Strike", Petrov's "Peter The First", Tikhomirov's "The Queen Of Spades" and others. Petersburg is an unbounded visual fantasy where reality and imagination merge into one. The history of the city represented in a digital form may live its independent life. Yevteyeva presents sights of St.Petersburg that have become the genetic code of the Russian culture in a particular manner in her film. Each shot of the film was hand-painted with special strokes.

A group of scientists is sent to the planet Arkanar to help the local civilization, which is in the Medieval phase of its own history, to find the right path to progress. Their task is a difficult one: they cannot interfere violently and in no case can they kill. The scientist Rumata tries to save the local intellectuals from their punishment and cannot avoid taking a position.

Based on Anton Chekhov's classic play, The Orchard is an eccentric comedy about class struggles in Russia at the turn of the 20th century. An aging aristocratic lady returns home to face the loss of her magnificent cherry orchard estate.

Before leaving Russia and moving to Western Europe, famous opera singer Lyuba travels to her hometown to say goodbye and show her teenage son around. But Andrey, Lyuba’s son, disappears and she must stay in the place she hates the most to search for him. A piercing exploration of identity and transformation, against the backdrop of a Russian hinterland, surrounded by Orthodox churches and snow.

December 1941. Leningrad. The story centers on the main character, who, together with other employees, saves zoo animals from shelling. The people themselves are on the brink of life and death, but they do not abandon the hippopotamus named Krasavitsa.

Three amazing stories about love and friendship, about faith in a dream and the connection of generations, about how not to betray yourself and remain human in any life situation. In the age of technology, people are used to rushing, running, making money, while forgetting about the main thing - about themselves and their true desires. It seems to us that we will become happier as soon as we have a new car or a high salary. And everything is much simpler - the secret of happiness is hidden in the soul of every person: in the ability to believe in miracles, make friends, love, be courageous, follow your dream!

In Russia, an introverted father and his teenage daughter live on the road in a van that contains their entire life, including the equipment for a travelling cinema: the source of their meager income. Povolotsky builds on the undeniable art of the long take, on both the scale of the imposing landscapes and the tight interior of their cramped vehicle. The nameless father and daughter rove around the extremities of their vast country, from south to north. On its margins, the pulse of independent drifters who endure and resist.

An old Russian grandmother or "babushka", who took part in the Battle of Stalingrad, sacrificed everything for her children and even sold her house to get money for her grandchildren, is shuttled among those very grandchildren--products of the "new" Russia--none of whom want her to stay with them since she's too much of a "burden" for them.

The governor asks his wife to stage this beloved folk ballet, which should be good PR for his upcoming elections. But it turns out that Swan Lake is also a ballet about two worlds. Trying to fulfill her husband's order, the governor's wife breaks out of the boundaries of the estate, regulated by the world of reconstructions. In the city, she encounters "ordinary people" unknown to her, sleeping swans.

Young doctors Bomgard and Polyakov, after graduating from university, go to work in the Russian outback.Finding themselves in a completely unusual environment for them, they do their difficult task as dictated by their medical conscience. Doctors always rush to the aid of their negligent patients...

A movie about two sisters - thirteen year old Sveta, poor and abandoned by her father, who longs to go off and be a sniper in the army, and spoilt eight-year old Dina, doted on by her gangster father...

Every day, the postwoman Manka goes through the forest to the fishermen on a long voyage. And every time an orphan girl, knowing with what impatience men are waiting for news, shouts out outlandish spells. And Manka does not know how to tell his beloved Porfiry that his Lenka was carried away by visiting sailors and forgot about the fisherman...

Based on the play by Ignatiy Dvoretsky. Television version of the play by the Lensovet Leningrad Academic Theater.

It shows the life of a man who lost his memory after a car accident. It's like a person is being reborn. But the new life does not bring happiness to the hero. Well-mannered, with good manners, he asks his friend, "What kind of person was I?" And gets an answer: "You were a heavy drinker." All the hero's attempts to establish contact with the world around him end in failure, and the final scene is very dramatic.

He's an unemployed guy who earns some money by giving lifts to strangers. She's a graphic designer who just got her first job. The film tracks their relationship - and the way it gradually melts away - throughout a year. A subtle, moving portrait of an immature love that breaks down easily.

In Leningrad, at the end of the White Nights, young and childishly naive Nina meets a young journalist Valery. She falls in love with that genuine first love, which is only possible when you're 19 years old. She does not suspect that for such an ambitious aesthetic as Valerik, this is just another episode in an endless celebration of life. The leitmotif of the film, which became a cultural landmark for several generations of people born in Leningrad - St. Petersburg, is the natural scenery of the beautiful city on the Neva river at the beginning of the sixties.

Inspired by Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, Sokurov’s Save and Protect recalls the most crucial events of Emma’s decline and fall: affairs with the aristocratic Rodolphe and the student Leon, the humiliation that follows her husband’s botching of the operation on the stable boy’s clubfoot. The universality of the theme of eternal struggle between the soul and the flesh is conveyed through the absence of specific reference to time or place: although the film seems to begin in 1840, its surreal mode effortlessly accommodates an automobile and the strains of “When the Saints Go Marching In” on an off-screen radio. Focusing on passion from a woman’s perspective and downplaying plot, Sokurov explores his subject in exquisite detail, capturing not only the heat of passion but also the quiet moments before and after and the innocent sensuousness of the body.

After a long prison sentence, former Nazi collaborator Shishkovich returns to the village, guilty of the deaths of his fellow villagers. Ivan, whose sister and mother were killed, cannot calmly accept his return.

He was betrayed by a friend and the woman he loved. His brilliant inventions were stolen through deceit. Thirty years later, he awoke from hypersleep. Both hatred and love were left in the distant past. But sometimes, those who never give up manage to find a 'door into summer.' Even if it means returning to their own past...

A person with amnesia writes down his memories in an attempt to reconstruct his life history.

On New Year's Eve, nine-year-old Vanya from Kirov, having learned of his parents' separation, sets off for Veliky Ustyug to ask Father Frost for a miracle.

On the threshold of 22nd century, furrowing the space, protagonist from the Free Search Group makes emergency landing on an unknown planet where he must stay. People who are living on this planet have remained at the stone level of the 20th century, with its social problems, miserable ecology and shaky world..

About the incredible adventures of hallucinating teenagers from a children's colony, who, as a result of a scientific experiment by their teachers, end up in the "Wild West", among space monsters, in a world of fantastic nature and all sorts of political situations. Some become a cowboy, some become Hitler, some become Emperor Paul I, etc. Three colonists, with the assistance of one of the teachers, actively resist these experiments...

The short film is based on the ballad of the same name by Vasily Andreevich Zhukovsky. The plot is based on Gottfried Bürger's ballad "Lenora."

Fantastic story of the first half of the XIX century about a monk named Ivan who must fight the dark forces in his monastery.

On a remote island in Southeast Asia, a team of scientists, studying the regenerative properties of the salamander, discovers what their Bangkok headquarters refer to as "The Priceless Gift": an elixir of life. News of the discovery travels quickly, and profiteers begin to circle the island, only to find out just how dangerous a discovery it is. During the research process, they also uncovered an unstoppable disease. When the research team goes missing, it leaves behind a warning: that the disease has spread, and is threatening to go global. Special forces and mercenaries from around the world descend on the island, making apparent that there is more at stake than just profit and ambition, but the survival of humanity.

After graduating from school, Seva Losev gets a job at a chemical plant. A lyrical film about the first experiences of independent life and first love.

The story of six-year-old Bobka, a kind and cheerful man who lives in Leningrad and desperately dreams of unexpectedly visiting his dad, who serves in the distant Caucasus Mountains. This is his most cherished dream, and it will certainly come true, but only after some adventures that are quite normal for this tomboy.

Journalist Mitchell Brown meets a tipsy woman at a bar and takes her to his house to spend the night because she is very drunk and cannot control herself. He looks for her documents, but finds only a checkbook with a strange number. The next morning the stranger disappears. Some time later, in the same bar, Mitchell meets her again in the company of a man who turns out to be her husband. She pretends not to recognize Mitchell. It turns out that there was a murder in the city that evening and she needs an alibi.