Elena Finogeeva

Даша Васильева. Любительница частного сыска

Unfading

This visually evocative drama, directed by the legendary Marlen Khutsiev and completed after his death, is inspired by the real-life encounters between Anton Chekhov and Leo Tolstoy. Through a series of intimate conversations, the two literary giants confront the fundamental questions of existence—life, death, faith, and immortality. In doing so, they reveal profoundly different worldviews, yet ones rooted in a shared cultural tradition and bound by mutual respect. In 2026, the film was finished at the initiative of Marlen Khutsiev’s friends and colleagues.

The Key

St. Petersburg. Winter of 1917, the eve of the February Revolution. The maid finds in the room the corpse of the murdered tenant. In his pocket, a hotel account was found in the name of Karl Fischer, a well-known banker. An investigation is beginning. In the list of suspects - an agent of the secret police...

Sea Wolf

Humphrey Van-Weyden, a young literary man, decides to visit a friend. On the ferry “Martinez” he sails from San Francisco to the other side of the bay. In the fog, the ferry collides with a large vessel and sinks in minutes. Finding himself in the water, Humphrey quickly became exhausted. Salvation came unexpectedly. A passing schooner happened to spot a man in the water. So Humphrey found himself on board the fishing schooner “Ghost”, commanded by the captain “Wolf” Larsen…

Everything Could Have Been Otherwise

Growing up in an orphanage, Florin is trying to find his mother Dorina, whom he has not seen for 15 years. His beloved Liza is very jealous of Florin's plans. Having met his mother, an already adult son is trying to understand the person who gave him life and abandoned him. But can a son forgive his mother, who deprived him of a happy childhood?

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Ilya Goryunov has spent seven years in prison on false charges of drug trafficking. When Ilya is free he realizes that the old life that he yearned for is no more. Although he did not intend to take revenge on the man who sent him to prison, now there is no other way out.

Take-Off

A biographical film about the life of the great Russian scientist, inventor of rocket technology and the founder of theoretical astronautics — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, the hard spiritual work of the thinker, overcoming the stagnation of the surrounding and dramatic events of his family life.

Ukrainian Vendetta

The Hitlerian army has merely encroached upon the territory of Ukraine, and the majority of the local people have been already ready to cave in to a new regime. The Ukrainian policemen have killed the boy. It is clear that there is no hope to expect the justice from the invaders, that’s why the killed boy’s mother declares the war on the hangsman.

Red Bells Part II: I Saw the Birth of a New World

The second part of Soviet filmmaker Sergei Bondarchuk's epic biography of John Reed. It is October 1917 and the American journalist has found himself and his wife, Louise Bryant, in Petrograd on the eve of the Bolshevik revolution.

New Adventures of a Yankee in King Arthur's Court

The plane of the American pilot Hank Morgan got lost in time. The pilot falls into temporary loop and finds himself at the era of the glorious King Arthur. Here he is destined to meet the legendary knights of the Round Table and the insidious Queen Morgana - the sister of the king, the beautiful Sandy and the wise Wizard. He will find himself in the rags of a slave and in knightly armor, to witness the greatness and death of the kingdom.

Exam Preparation

Katya, the heroine of the film, was helped in a dream by a noble stranger. When she arrives at school in the morning, she meets a newcomer and decides that he is the hero of her dream. However, the young man's actions destroy the romantic image created by Katya.

Sea Wolf

Humphrey Van-Weyden, a young literary man, decides to visit a friend. On the ferry "Martinez" he sails from San Francisco to the other side of the bay. In the fog, the ferry collides with a large vessel and sinks in minutes. Finding himself in the water, Humphrey quickly became exhausted. Salvation came unexpectedly. A passing schooner happened to spot a man in the water. So Humphrey found himself on board the fishing schooner "Ghost", commanded by the captain "Wolf" Larsen...

The Secret of Gretha Villa

Members of the Shield and Helmet Masonic Lodge, sent by the CIA, are preparing a coup in one of the western countries. The criminal chronicle reporter manages to infiltrate the headquarters of the conspirators. The information he produces will play a decisive role in preventing the putsch. However, the successful journalist soon became convinced that he had discovered only the tip of the iceberg...

The Precipice

Boris Pavlovich Raisky, a bored Petersburg aesthet, comes to his family estate in a small town on the Volga. He hoped to find boredom and the faint-hearted provincials there, and did not expect that in the outback he was waiting for real life, dramatic love and serious passions. Boris Raisky’s estate is a blessed corner where everything pleases the eye: a native old house, tender greenery of birches and lindens, a silver strip of the Volga in the distance. And only a mysterious precipice at the end of the garden frightens the inhabitants of the estate. According to legend, at the bottom of it in ancient times, a jealous husband killed his wife and rival. “Precipice” is a symbolic word in the fate of the main character Vera. It fell to her to fall in love with a nihilist and a cynic who preaches "love for a term", painfully choose between feeling and duty, finally, go down to her beloved person in a cliff, cut off everything that connected with her former life...

Forget-Me-Nots

A story about the fate of several generations of an old Moscow family. The life of these people, full of drama, fatally intersects with the historical fate of Russia. The plot focuses on the love of a young officer and a girl against the background of Stalinist socialism.