Aleksandr Demidov

By the Way

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

Hard to Be a God

The distant future. Earthlings help less developed civilizations overcome difficult stages of evolution. Anton, an employee of the Institute of History, goes to the medieval Arkanar to rescue scientists who can advance evolution. He will become Don Rumata of Estor, a wealthy aristocrat and lover of fights, booze and women. The main rule of progressors is not to interfere directly with the natural course of history, pointwise saving a few enlighteners from death. But Anton has a personal interest that he hid from the institute: somewhere in Arkanar, his father went missing.

Double or Quits

The film industry is a world with too many variables. A film's success depends not only on actors and directors but on everything that happens behind the camera: endless fights between the screenwriters, mischief, love affairs, and money issues. Finally, the whole team gets together for a wrap party. They will not only drink champagne but tell each other everything they've been hiding. Love affairs come to an end and arguments die down while the director is trying to understand whether he managed to create something "real".

Как с Максимом х(пип)ня случилась

In order to get the opportunity to make his first film, the aspiring director Maxim is forced to agree with the producer's comments and make censored changes to his script. Yes, it will be a completely different movie, but it will be. Returning home, Maxim discovers an extremely unusual phenomenon: instead of a mat in speech, he hears a piercing "piiip", and instead of naked body parts — black "patches" and a fuzzy image. And even alcohol has lost its taste and degree. It seems that Maxim has become the main source of censorship for himself.

The Adventures of Soldier Ivan Chonkin

From a simple misunderstanding, a kind, funny story has grown about charming village people, about ridiculous situations in which they periodically find themselves.

Elections Day

The employees of a radio station in Moscow are forced to organize the elections campaign for a future governor in one of Russia districts.

Money

The action takes place on "Like a Radio". The rating of the radio station is approaching zero, the Agency that places ads on its air is suffering losses, advertisers are demanding a change of managers and are going to determine the station's policy themselves, the management staff is really changing, but the new bosses will not blindly obey the instructions of the advertising Agency.

О чём говорят мужчины. Простые удовольствия

Dear People

The heroes of the almanac's stories are students who studied at the same institute in the 90s and lived together in a dormitory. Then many people left, their paths diverged and their lives turned out differently, but they did not lose touch and still communicate, help each other and share common problems. Fellow students meet 20 years later on the anniversary of their favorite teacher. But how many things will happen before this meeting…

Похабовск. Обратная сторона Сибири

Ivan the Terrible

XVI century. The film depicts the life of Ivan from his earliest years to the last days of his reign.

Five Stolen Monks

Five stolen doves "monks" are helping to investigate a big diamonds theft.

Мой немолодой человек

Successful architect Zhenya has long known how life works. Student Yulia is confident she'll figure it all out. They meet by chance and fall in love at the most inopportune moment. Inopportune because the age difference between them is too large. But is there such a thing as inopportune love? While friends argue, parents worry, a psychologist tries to figure things out, and casual acquaintances eagerly offer unsolicited advice, the couple must decide whether love is worth the sacrifice of other people's opinions.

What Men Still Talk About

A year later the men are still talking, but this time on the 31st of December and still about the women, football, children, and, of course, about the approaching New Year’s celebration. But what can they do, if their beloved wives and girls are waiting for them at Kamil’s, busy with New Year tree decoration and cooking, and the husbands are accidentally got stuck in the advertising agency office? Will they manage to get home in time to celebrate the New Year together?

What Men Talk About

Four old friends - Kamil, Lesha, Sasha and Slava - all well-to-do professionals in their late 30s embarking on a two days road trip from Moscow to Odessa. They wish to escape the metropolis and the everyday routine of work, family and girlfriends to relax in a nightclub run by Slava's friend and to see the popular band B-2 show.