Vladimir Bolshov

Simple Truths

A youth TV novel about school life. The situations that the characters find themselves in are familiar to every teenager, and the problems that the characters are trying to solve are of concern to everyone: how to deal with unrequited love (and is it necessary?), how to resolve a conflict with teachers or classmates, how to find a common language with parents, how to skip a physical education lesson, how, finally, to wipe the two in the diary without consequences for school life.

Natali and Aleksandr

The Attackers

The Eastern Front, 1943. Two Soviet pilots, straight out of training, join a veteran fighter squadron on the front line.

Bunker, or Scientists Underground

In the year 2012 (a future time when the film was made), an underground laboratory ten kilometres beneath the steppes of Western Siberia is the stage for the top-secret Project BUNKER. Distinguished scientists have been working on a mysterious scientific experiment for the last three years, with a strange, anonymous, and extremely popular erotic manuscript circulating through the complex serving as their only distraction. Now a new researcher has arrived — a veterinarian, despite the lack of animals at the facility — and the scientists already in place are wondering why.

Imprints

The quiet town of Zarechny is shaken by a series of brutal murders. Investigator Yana returns home to solve the crime and overcome her inner demons. The girl's radical methods and personal interest endanger the investigation, and police Captain Denis joins the case. The trail leads the partners to a local orphanage. But the closer they get to the killer, the more they try to stop them. Someone is ready to do anything to keep a terrible secret forever in the past.

Vlasik: The Shadow of Stalin

Following the life of Nikolay Vlasik, chief of Stalin's security force, this series unveils the fate of a man who becomes a shadow of Russia's leader. Absorbing his thoughts and sharing his impulses, Vlasik witnesses Stalin in both difficult and personal moments. However, due to this role, Vlasik is forced to keep his love affair with a lady-agent secret. Russian series with English subtitles.

Best Party Ever

One of the guests shot to death during a meeting of former classmates in a luxurious country house. Investigator Oleg Koshkin arrives at the crime scene. All who were present at the party are under suspicion.

King Lear

Lear, the aging king of Britain, decides to step down from the throne and divide his kingdom evenly among his three daughters.

Streltsov

By the age of twenty, Eduard Streltsov has everything one can dream of: talent, fame and love. He is the rising star of Soviet football. The whole country, with bated breath, expects victory from the national team at the upcoming World Cup where Streltsov is to face the great Brazilian football player Pelé. However, two days before the departure of the team, the sportsman’s enemies manage to destroy his career. When the door to big sport seems to be closed for good, Streltsov has to re-enter the field and prove that he is a true champion who is worth everybody’s love.

Ghost

The unexpected death of his brother, a fishery inspector, changes the life of a drunken former athlete who was predicted to have a brilliant career. Suspecting local poachers, he decides to take revenge...

Ночёвка

Two elderly friends plan their own funerals in an attempt to conquer their fear of death, but instead find themselves feeling alive again.

You Must Be Joking!

Based on the stories by Arkady Averchenko. Short stories: "Morning," "Ninochka," "Service," "The Exhibition," "The Ichneumon," "Bless You!", "Iron Memory," "The Lady in Black," "A Man’s Fate," "Before Sleep."

The Seagull

Anton Chekhov’s first of four major plays dramatizes the romantic and artistic conflicts between its four main characters: Boris Trigorin, a well-known writer, the ingenue Nina, the fading actress Irina Arkadina, and her son the would-be playwright Konstantin Tréplev. Yury Butusov's Golden Mask Award-winning production abounds in an incredible freedom and openness, delving deep into the throes of artistic creation and the anguish of the artist who struggles to find a language of his own. This is not only a performance about the theatre, it is an anthology of the theatre. Chekhov’s characters are in the process of creating their lives or watching them fall apart, which, according to Butusov, may be a closely related activity.

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The Stop

The city at night. A bus stop. A drunken man is dozing there. A young woman approaches. He asks her for help—to pour some cognac into his mouth. He cannot do it himself; his hands are occupied holding a grenade with a pulled pin—a weapon he came to possess purely by accident. The young woman calls the police. While waiting for help to arrive, a dialogue unfolds between them.