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- A father and his son live together in a roof-top apartment. They have lived alone for years in their own private world, full of memories and daily rites. Sometimes they seem like brothers. Sometimes even like lovers. Following in his father's path, Aleksei attends military school. He likes sports, tends to be irresponsible and has problems with his girlfriend. She is jealous of Aleksei's close relationship with his father. Despite knowing that all sons must one day live their own lives, Aleksei is conflicted; his father knows he should accept a better job in another city, perhaps search for a new wife, but who will ease the pain of Aleksei's nightmares?
- Third part in Aleksandr Sokurov's quadrilogy of Power, following Moloch (1999) and Taurus (2001), focuses on Japanese Emperor Hirohito and Japan's defeat in World War II when he is finally confronted by General Douglas MacArthur who offers him to accept a diplomatic defeat for survival.
- The men go fishing. Russian men.
- Young prince Aleksandr has to hold out against two enemies - the Horde in the east and the Teutonic order and Sweden in the west. He discovers that some boyars are plotting against him and are ready to betray Novgorod to the Swedes and the Germans to boost their trade. Meanwhile, his best friend falls under suspicion, as somebody tries to poison the young prince at his own wedding feast. Aleksandr has no way out - to defend his people against the invaders and to find the true poisoner.
- Kira Muratova's "Checkhovskie motivy", adapted from a couple of works by the famous writer, concerns a man who, in the middle of his wedding, notices that in the audience is his deceased ex-lover.
- The film focuses on the circumstances of a young Lieutenant in the Red Army, Grigori Anokhin, played by Yuri Tarasov, who is stuck in a sanatorium but eager to return to the front in order "to kill the Fascists", as he says. Traumatized by witnessing the massacre of his comrades, he has taken to drink, and he is ready to exact revenge. His attempts to return to the front, however, are frustrated, when he is assigned a different mission. With a team of soldiers unfit for duty at the front, he is ordered to take a group of fifteen German prisoners and their commanding officer to the remote village of Polumgla to construct a radio tower for use as an airplane beacon. With the ability to communicate only in rudimentary phrases and left to their own devices far away from the war, the villagers, soldiers, and the German prisoners slowly begin to coexist peacefully. The film ends with a detachment of NKVD soldiers arriving and declaring that the war is over, and that the radio tower the German prisoners of war have been working on for a year is no longer of any use. All of the German prisoners of war, many of whom have become intimate with the village women, are marched off into the woods and executed.
- A Jewish child deported to Kazakhstan is saved and adopted by Kasym, an old Kazakh railway-man. Kasym gives him a Kazakh name, Sabyr, that in Kazakh language means humble. The child grows up in the small Kazakh village along with other deportees Vera, a traitor's wife, and Ezhik a Polish doctor. The Soviet militia harasses the poor peasants and Vera suffered the harassment of a bully cop: Bulgabi. Finally Vera accepts the marriage proposal of Ezhik but the jealous Bulgabi tries to prevent the marriage. The result is a fight in which Ezhik shoots himself accidentally. The old Kasym decides that Sabyr is now old enough to go to seek his real parents. At the end Sabyr, now an adult, decides to return to the village, but the village no longer exists because it was destroyed by a Soviet nuclear test.
- An entomologist and painter who moves into an old house with his family discovers the work of a mysterious scientist. He finds a cinematography archive with a completely new theory on the reasons why humans became bipedal.
- Russian tragic comedy about forming post USSR society.
- On New Year's Eve, several people, including the general, end up in the injury ward under various circumstances. A businessman is brought in with a genital injury and a dislocated jaw, thanks to which a gorgeous booze and a snack appear in the hospital. Injured ladies are invited from the women's department, a Christmas tree is dug up and dressed up on the territory, a policeman appears with a detainee swallowing a medal of the guardian of the law .
- A few rich and glamorous people are flying to Nice, but instead of South France they land in the heart of the Sibir.
- Early 20th century. The recklessness of fanatics is pushing humanity towards the abyss. A revolution begins in Russia. Crazy Dr. Farkus causes an orgasm of inanimate matter. .
- While the bride is late for the wedding, the guests tell various marriage stories, which confuse the groom.
- Set in a magical castle where a reluctant and spoiled Lisa has come to celebrate Christmas with her parents, her curiosity and persistence lead her to a strange Medieval Kingdom, inhabited by strange characters, ghostly flying weapons and magical toys that come alive! As Christmas approaches, Lisa and her new friends must stop the plans of the evil House Keeper and the King's chancellor to steal the kingdom and put an end to the festivities. Only then the youngster can return home. A fresh new Christmas fairy-tale based on a traditional Czech story "Twelve Months".
- The Secret Group of 5th Red Army Intelligence gets only extremely dangerous job. No one knows the names of soldiers of this unit, but their achievements will be never forgotten by the motherland. In service record of these heroes are hundreds of assignments - the destruction of the fascist provocateurs unit, the transfer of classified documents, the capture of enemy saboteurs, the organization of covering of Soviet residents and many other deeds, details of which are still kept in the military archives, labeled "top secret".
- Leningrad; 60th years; white nights. Walking on Neva Embankment, the charming provincial has met three friends: poet, artist and film director. And each of young people has suggested to marry him.
- An anthropologist investigates the origins of human evolution. She had suffered a mental trauma during her childhood when her father, a submarine captain, died during the war. This trauma periodically destabilizes her condition. The ghosts of a prehistoric past and a violent death collide in the subconsciousness of the scientist to give birth to an unexpected theory of the origins of human beings.
- based on the famous novel by Valentin Pikul. During the rule of Peter III , who came to the throne after the death of Empress Elizabeth, was short-lived. Peter III set up an army against him with his hastily reforms, and was deposed by a military rebellion. Catherine became the empress.
- After recovering from injuries sustained fighting in the North Caucasus, Captain Timofey Smolin is assigned to the border in the quiet Russian Northwest. He soon finds it's not so quiet after all.