Based on Leo Tolstoy's story "Holstomer" staged by the Leningrad State Academic Bolshoi Drama Theater named after M. Gorky.

A television film based on the famous production by the Bolshoi Drama Theater is yet another interpretation of Chekhov’s “boring...

Anatoly Novoseltsev is a mousy single father and office stumblebum working at a statistics bureau in Moscow. In the hopes of being promoted, he is...

A story about the famous Russian weightlifter Ivan Zaikin, who left the circus arena at the peak of his fame to dedicate himself to the art of...

Platon Ryabinin, a pianist, is traveling by train to a distant town of Griboedov to visit his father. He gets off to have lunch during a twenty...

Millionaire commissions a play, addressing the threat of nuclear war.

To earn money for married life, a young engaged man takes a job as an engineer on a privately operated oil drilling rig in the far North of Russia. A...

Andrey Pavlovich Buzykin, who makes a living by teaching at an institute and translating English literature, is cheating on his wife. Buzykin's main...

Great Britain at the beginning of the XVIII century. His daughter Hilaret runs away from the house of a rich merchant to secretly marry her lover....

The small town agog Hussars entry. Love between cornet and the young actress suddenly faces intrigue made by a St. Petersburg bureaucrat. The actress...

An ironic and romantic story of the incredible adventures of the famous Russian inventor.

In the new Russia, former middle class citizens find themselves out in the dumps. Literally. They build homes, elect their own government, work, beg,...

Ivan Mirosnikov, a cheeky young man in the Gorbachev era, is trying to figure out what to do with his life (he's not in college, and the 2-year...

A very sick girl asks her father to get her a live elephant. Based on the early stories by Alexander Kuprin.

The story of the great traveler and explorer Vitus Bering.

During the Russian Civil War, the production of a silent melodrama runs into numerous complications.

A story of an actor named Oleg whose wife has been seduced by his neighbor. As he is thoroughly convinced of her infidelity, he would like to poison...

Going on a business trip, the hero of the film suddenly finds himself in a fantastic city. It is very similar to our world, only the hidden absurdity...

Based on Boris Akunin's novel 'Azazel' (English title 'The Winter Queen') set in Moscow in 1876. The novel started a long series quite popular in...

The film is a modern adaptation of Alexander Ostrovsky's unforgettable play "Profitable Place".

Masterfully done re-telling of Bulgakov's brilliant play (itself a version of the novel, "White Guard"), "Days of the Turbins".

Based on the play of the same name by Leo Tolstoy. According to Fyodor Protasov, the surrounding life is riddled with dirt and falsehood. He does...

The story of the last year and a half of Tsar Nicholas II and his family from the February Revolution of 1917 to their execution in July 1918.

The author's remake of the famous New Year's comedy is not an exact copy of the original. Festive mess in the same House of Culture, where they...

St. Petersburg, mid 19th century: the indolent, middle-aged Oblomov lives in a flat with his older servant, Zakhar. He sleeps much of the day,...

Russian countess in 1893 has strange dreams about herself living a life as a dishwasher in 1993' Moscow after dissolution of the USSR.

A drama about a life of two sisters - Nadya and Lida, who both are dreaming about theater and actress career.

This film is not about Oleg Yankovsky in the usual sense: not a biography of a great actor, not a review of roles. And not the sharp facts from his...

Drama about the period of F. Dzerzhinsky's activity in 1902-1905, when he, having escaped from the Viluysk prison, lived in Poland.

Chronicle dramatic scenes of under the rule of fascism.

The love triangle: wife, husband and his mistress, amusingly crumbles because the loving writer is fleetingly infatuated with a third woman, young...

Amateur actors read stories from a book describing the 900-day siege of Leningrad during World War II.

Colonel Chabert, who miraculously survived the battle, returns to his homeland after several years of wandering, but everyone has long considered him...

The Commissioner of Police has been tasked with conducting an investigation into the threat of a terrorist attack in the building of the press...

Former opera celebrities live in a nursing home. Four former idols whose lives were once filled with triumph live out their lives filled with...

In "Dead Souls" Gogol posed the most pressing and painful questions of modern life. The very title of the poem had enormous revealing power; it...

Few not connected novels about the love. Few couples falling in love in different places of post USSR: Moscow, Georgia, Armenia.

A popular middle-aged writer is warned by a fortuneteller that he will die in exactly 24 hours. He then meets a man, who claims to be him. The writer...

Detective Sergei Chelishchev leaves the police to find the real murderer of his parents. Everything changes when he meets his long-lost friend, a war...

What do the head of a secret file cabinet, students who don’t shy away from a glass, a police lieutenant colonel, and a prisoner’s wife...

Follows the life feat of doctor L.S.Soboleva, who saved people during three outbreaks of the plague.

In the first movie colonel Zorin is trying to find a stolen "Saint Luke" painting.

Based on the novel of the same name by I.A. Goncharov.

An ecological drama/documentary, filmed throughout the globe. Part thriller, part meditation on the vanishing wonders of the sub-aquatic world.

A young businessman believes that money and fortune are the most important things in the world. One day he loses all his money and faces the...

Nadya Shumin is engaged to be married to Andrey Andreitch, the son of a local priest. Nadya lives on her grandmother's estate with her mother, "a...

The story of a sublime unrequited love of a petty official for a young socialite.

One of the days in a life of a department manager...

The first attempt in the history of Russian documentalism to understand what was the historical moment in which Anatoly Sobchak appeared in the...

The film is based on a dialogue between young and older generations about life, profession, fame, love, the mission of art, the destiny of man,...

The strange title is explained by the fact that there are two films in the film: one is about a real day in the life of the real Moscow architect...

The famous scientist, academician and art critic Andrei Ilyin, who survived with the Hermitage staff the harsh trials of the Leningrad blockade,...

Based on the novel of the same name by Judah Waten. Beth Tyson is killed in his mansion. Chief Inspector Fields, Inspector Bramell, and Detective...

A television play based on the life and death of Russian poet and Decembrist Wilhelm "Kyukhlya" Küchelbecker.

A film adaptation of A. Sukhovo-Kobylin’s work “The Case,” which reproduces the details of the author’s trial experience.

After the death of her father, Antonina Staroselskaya has difficulty finding work. A dull life is the cause of illness. A merchant seaman takes care...

A new adaptation of the beloved Arabian fairy tale about Aladdin. In this version of the story, Aladdin is a Russian guard Alyosha, who by chance...

About the beginning of M. Gorky's literary activity. Arriving in the provincial town of Samara, Alexey Peshkov publishes one after another...

Eldar Ryazanov reads his poetry. An introspective movie on his multifaceted work.

About the work of Georgy Alexandrovich Tovstonogov — People's Artist of the USSR, professor, laureate of the State and Lenin Prizes, and chief...

A television play chronicling the lead-up to the assassination of diplomat and playwright Alexander Griboyedov, dubbed “vazir mukhtar” in...

The main character, an official of the 14th grade, Erast Petrovich Fandorin, serves as a clerk in the Detective Department and secretly dreams of...

The Master and Margarita is a Russian television production of Telekanal Rossiya, based on the novel The Master and Margarita, written by Soviet...

Kiev. Winter of 1918-1919. The power in the city es from the hetman to the Directorate of Ukraine, then from Petliura to the Bolsheviks. Turbins...

A saga about the life of the Siberian Savelyev family during the period 1902 through the 1960s as they survive through three wars, a revolution,...

A Russian detective series, based on 8 works of Andrei Konstantinov ("lawyer", "Justice / Attorney-2", "The Thief / Journalist-2", "Writer",...

A talk show

The Idiot is a costume drama TV series produced by Russia TV Channel in 2003, based on Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel of the same title. The series'...

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...

Operatives are looking for a killer who has appropriated someone else's identity. The story of a real case based on the story of Yulian Semyonov.