
KVN is a Russian humour TV show and competition where teams compete by giving funny answers to questions and showing prepared sketches. The programme was first aired by the First Soviet Channel on November 8, 1961. Eleven years later, in 1972, when few programmes were being broadcast live, Soviet censors found the students' impromptu jokes offensive and anti-Soviet and banned KVN. The show was revived fourteen years later during the Perestroika era in 1986, with Alexander Maslyakov as its host. It is one of the longest-running TV programmes on Russian Television. It also has its own holiday on November 8, the birthday of the game, which KVN players celebrate every year since it was announced and widely celebrated for the first time in 2001.

Every week Pavel Volya, together with invited guests — stars and ordinary people — will sum up the past week in the best traditions of TNT. Viewers will be treated to a discussion of the most interesting events of the past week, interactive events with celebrities, absurd contests, unexpected musical experiments and much more.

Garik Kharlamov, Azamat Musagaliyev and Denis Dorokhov discuss current events every Saturday evening, joke and communicate with the guests of the show.


A quartet of childhood pals who create a business together find themselves at the core of a powerful Moscow gang in the aftermath of an unplanned murder.

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

A story about four criminals: an experienced thief, a sneaky gigolo, A troublemaker and naïve stupid pets kidnapper. They all met in prison and now are planning their last big affair before resigning from criminal life. Ex-prisoners rent a restaurant next to a bank planning to secretly dig their way to the safe. Unexpectedly, though, their place with its prison cuisine and no BS attitude becomes a great hit. Now the guys have to decide whether to stay with the romance of the criminal life and go to the end with their plan or to choose a new life with a new business.

Sergei and Simon have to deliver a suitcase full of heroin to Mikhalych or else they will be killed. There is one minor detail: the only problem-solving technique they are familiar with is a shot in the head.

Former commander Kotov, unjustly convicted in the 30s as an enemy of the people, miraculously survived and was sent to war by an ordinary ordinary soldier of the penal battalion. He fought like everyone else: in mud, cold and hunger, without looking into the future for more than one day, and even that he had to be able to live. To live and survive in the hell that was the military front line. His faith saved him. Faith in his country, faith in God and the faith of his daughter Nadia that the father is alive…

1970s. Artur Nikitin, the grandson of a Politburo member, a spoiled guy who knows no denial in anything, falls in love with a young talented ballerina, Oksana Lepina. Arthur tries to seduce the girl with expensive gifts, but Oksana keeps her distance. Then he sexually assaults the girl. Oksana writes a statement to the prosecutor's office, not afraid of either investigative threats, or the influence of the rapist, or the loss of her own reputation.

A modern adaptation of the classic novel-poem by Nikolai Gogol. The action takes place in our days. Chichikov, an official from Moscow, this time does not buy up dead souls from small-minded provincials, but sells them places in the cemetery next to celebrities.

The Torpedo provincial football team has been taking the last places in the standings for the past season. During the next match, the team members arrange a fight with the opponent right on the battlefield. This incident becomes the last straw in the coach's cup of patience, and he leaves Torpedo.



The film tells the story of the final years of the life of Nicholas II, the last emperor of Russia. It follows his devoted wife, Empress Alexandra; his son, Tsarevich Alexei; his daughters, Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia; and his brother, Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich. The love and loyalty of those closest to Nicholas accompanied him through the most difficult years of his life. But they could not protect him from betrayal. The treachery and cowardice of members of the Romanov dynasty, politicians of every kind, and generals who had sworn allegiance to the throne ultimately led to the collapse of the empire. The story of the imperial family unfolds against the backdrop of a tragic turning point in history.