Garik Sukachyov

KVN Major League

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.

Mr. Theo, Cat & Dog

It seemed that no storms of the outside world could shake the usual and measured course of village life in Prostokvashino. Time seemed to freeze. Still, every morning Matroskin tastes fresh milk obtained from his pet cow Murka. The Ball still spends time in the surrounding forests, "photo hunting" for rare game. However, now he has learned how to post photos of his prey on the Internet. And still, Uncle Fyodor visits them at every opportunity. And then they have fun and amicably spend time with their male company. And when it began to seem to them that this would always be the case, suddenly everything changed with the appearance of one little girl, Uncle Fyodor's own sister. And the name of this girl is Vera Pavlovna.

Dr. Driver

An emergency physician is accused of negligence, imprisoned, and banned from practising medicine. Released on parole, he gets a job as an ambulance driver. Being part of the ER crew, he can’t hide his medical expertise and keeps saving lives, even if ‘unofficially’. He only wants one thing — to legally practice medicine again. The life of the ER station consists of dramatic and often unconventional medical cases and tumultuous relationships inside the team. The characters’ life stories are troubled, but love heals all their wounds. Meetings and goodbyes, parents and children, personal dramas: it’s all connected in the show while the characters look for and find ways out of the most challenging professional and romantic situations.

Star Factory

Fabrika Zvyozd, sometimes known internationally as Star Factory, is a popular Russian television talent show that aired on Channel One from 2002 until 2007. It was the Russian version of the Endemol format Operación Triunfo.

Квартирник НТВ у Маргулиса

Old Songs about the Main Thing

Old Songs about the Main Thing

Dead Man's Bluff

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.

Pest!

The story is about the inhabitants of the fictional town of Hamburg, locked in a castle in quarantine. William, the Messenger who brought the news of the plague, is also locked up in the castle.

Women in a Game Without Rules

The story is about why people's destinies are intertwined, how they influence each other and how this changes the world around us.

СССР. Знак качества

Tragedy, Rock Style

Vitya is a teenage rock-music and motorbike fanatic whose father is arrested for embezzlement. Vitya is devastated, and in this state of shock he falls prey to a supposed mystic called Cassius.

Half-Dead, Half-Dead Can't Get Out. Odyssey 1992

Two directors begin casting a film about the 1990s, which gradually devolves into a space of uncertainty where the distinction between document and fiction disappears. This subtle disruption in the process—the appearance of a single actor obsessed with "accuracy"—leads to a loss of control and implicates them. At the edge of this experience, between life and death, both directors find themselves inside their own, never-made film.

Defence Counsel Sedov

Late one evening in Moscow in 1937, Defence Counsel Sedov hears a knock at the door. Three women whose agronomist husbands have been sentenced to death for alleged sabotage beg him to take on the seemingly hopeless task of saving them. Sedov embarks upon a succession of encounters with increasingly powerful officials, gradually persuading them to look at the case anew. But the highest authorities are not so easily outmanoeuvered, and Sedov becomes canonised as a Stalinist zealot, with the film building inexorably to its chilling triple climax.

Трудные папы

Katya is smart, modest and diligent, but most importantly, she is very convenient for those around her, which they take advantage of. After the death of her overprotective mother, Katya inherits her mother's late lover Andrey Nikolaevich, who has nowhere else to live, along with the house. However, this is not our heroine's main problem. The secrets that her mother hid from Katya during her life, the mortgage debt, because of which she could lose her home, and the mysterious man to whom her mother has been sending large sums of money for many years - Katya will have to figure all this out, and for the first time in her life - on her own.