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Lovey-Dovey Director: Alexander Strizhenov |
Lyrical comedy, fantasy. At their wedding Andrei and Marina Golubev vowed each other eternal love. In due course their passion vanishes to make room for career, everyday life, friends and personal hobbies. More and more they argue over trifles and spend less and less time together...The prospect of divorce is looming. The last chance to rescue the marriage lies in the consultation with the family psychologist, Doctor Kogan. But Doctor Kogan treats family relations in a rather untraditional way: in the morning the Golubevs wake up at home, but now he is Marina and she is Andrei. They must learn to understand the desires of the other like their own...
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Propaganda Team Director: Vitaly Melnikov |
Tragicomedy. During the World War II a group of artists with a movie projector sails down a Siberian river. The banks of the river are inhabited with people relocated from all parts of the Soviet Union. The team «Hit the Enemy!» stops at each village, gives concerts and shows films.
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Two in One Director: Kira Muratova |
Tragicomic drama in two short stories from the life of people. On a theatre stage an actor has hung himself. Somehow a stage worker gets involved in the case. But the actor’s body in the sling is by far not the most fascinating intrigue that is capturing the attention of the troupe. It is impossible to see where the series of events will lead and how many deaths await the troupe... An aging lady’s man cannot reconcile himself with loneliness. He has everything, except for the women of his life, and he is ready to search for her until the end, or death. The only woman close to him is his patient daughter. Unable to cope with her fate, she brings along her friend, a simple working girl of the tram depot...
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Gloss Director: Andrey Konchalovsky |
Dramatic comedy. The simple seamstress Galia arrives in Moscow from the Rostov province. She dreams of becoming a supermodel, but she is not destined to become a model. Indeed, she is told so right away, and reaches this conclusion herself by the end of film, having worked as seamstress with a well-known fashion designer, as assistant to the owner of an elite model agency engaged in the selection of brides for rich people There she learns how much the rich pay for the happy life in their villas. The film is based on real events.
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Father Director: Ivan Solovov |
Screen adaptation of the Andrei Platonov’s story “The Return”. After the end of the War Alexei and Masha feel not only happiness and joy but also bitterness and fear. Alexei is afraid to return home as doubts that his children and wife are still waiting for him. Masha has lost her parents and is also afraid to come back to the town where only distant relatives are left. Alexei and Masha meet in the train on the way home. They both alight at Masha’s station and spent two days together before Alexei leaves for his place. He finds his family in good health. Nevertheless he can hardly accustom to peaceful life. He tries his best to overcome hard daily routine, to realize his family’s new problems. He learns to live afresh, to love and forgive.
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Nothing Personal Director: Larisa Sadilova |
Drama. The private detective Zimin receives an order for video observation of an apartment. He puts the bugs and microcameras there and begins the observation. At first he follows the pharmacist Irina, but soon learns that his client has made a mistake and another apartment should be observed. Thus he looks after two women at one and the same time. Gradually he finds out more and more about their problems. At some instant Zimin understands that the life of the people he observes reflects his own life as in crooked mirror.
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Vice Director: Valery Todorovsky |
Denis Orlov is a young and arrogant DJ in a nightclub in a large southern City of Russia. He has everything: talent, love, friends. He dreams of becoming a professional musician and of exchanging the dance floor for stadiums and concert halls. Denis life strives towards the future, with a promising set of surprises, but not always pleasant. In order to make quick money Denis agrees to deal drugs once, just once. But during this one deal Denis crosses the path of the regional criminal authority, Verner. Thus Denis and his friends face a choice.
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The Gamblers Director: Pavel Chukhraj |
Based on the Nikolai Gogol’s play "Gamblers".
Numerous creditors found Italian card sharper Luchino Forza and forced him to sign the mortgage for all his properties. He will be put to jail if he does not pay off the debts by the strict deadline. In order to avoid imprisonment he goes to Russia to play cards and thus gain money to save his life and property. By chance he meets a merry company of Russian gamblers. They agree to work together.
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Treasure Raiders Director: Brent Huff |
A top Russian street racer nicknamed Wolf and an American professor Michael together search for an ancient treasure in Moscow. Mysterious historian Pierre joins the search. He believes that the treasure belongs to legendary Order of the Temple. Things get complicated when Wolf's girlfriend Lena is kidnapped by gangster Beekeeper and the Moscow police chief is ready to arrest Wolf for illegal street racing. Pierre and Michael continue their search for the treasure but Wolf has to rescue Lena and win the most dangerous race which takes place on the sizzling streets of Moscow. Only after that can he reveal the dark secret of the Order of the Temple.
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Actress Director: Stanislav Govorukhin |
Lyrical comedy. There once lived a talented but unlucky actress. Everything went wrong in her carrier and personal life. She suffered greatly. Her favorite girlfriend lived in a flat nearby. One day her husband’s classmate, a well known scientist and PhD, visited the couple where he met the actress. They fell in love and as it often happens at the same time she was offered a good role.