Alexandr Kuznetsov

Having lived in Moscow for many years, successful political consultant Aldar returns to his home in Kalmykia to search for his mother who disappeared in the Steppe. He finds her with the help of the local shaman, and together they make the journey that they didn’t have time to take when she was still alive.

After experiencing a terrible tragedy, the hero leaves his former life. Everything that seemed important goes into the past — work, success, the usual rhythms of a big city. But the world of people refuses to let him go, bursts into his chosen solitude, beckons with new opportunities. Unexpectedly for himself, the hero finds a new home, where he seems to find peace, love and answers to his painful questions. But are these the right answers? And what price will you have to pay to survive and remain yourself?

A 13-year-old albino girl nicknamed Muk, the only witness to the mysterious disappearance of a peer, falls in love with the main suspect, and goes from an outcast to a person on whom other people's fates depend.

Big Boss Evgeny Sergeevich instructs Slava and Zhenya to sell a batch of smuggled solar stone. Slava and Zhenya are friends who have been working in amber since childhood. In the 90s, Slava and Zhenya had a chance to rise, to become wealthy people, but one circumstance that happened through the fault of Slava forever deprived them of this opportunity. After receiving a large batch from Evgeny Sergeevich, Zhenya has a plan in his head on how to get rich quickly and become the person he always dreamed of being. What is Zhenya capable of to achieve his goal, and is there a place for friendship when it comes to big money?

To survive the old trauma and free herself from painful memories, Shura is forced to return to an ominous episode from her childhood: a little girl meets a strange stranger in an empty house.

The touching drama “The End of the Season” tells the life story of three sisters and is inspired by the same-name play by Anton Chekhov. Vibrant and compelling characters are performed by an all-star feminine cast: Yuliya Peresild, Yulia Snigir and Anna Chipovskaya.

Sveta, her two children and stepfather Semen solemnly celebrate the birthday of the hero-submariner Victor - the first husband of Sveta, who went missing five years ago. Right during a toast to the birthday boy, he unexpectedly returns home and claims that all this time he was fulfilling the task of the Motherland.

There is no single truth in love. Each treads their own path. Which should take precedence – passion or duty? How do we choose? And who gets to judge? These are the eternal questions, remorselessly thrust upon us by life. Anna Karenina made her choice, leaving her son Sergei to grow up struggling to understand why his mother took such a tragic and terrible path, and Count Vronsky haunted by the memory of the woman for whose death he still blames himself 30 years later. In 1904, in the aftermath of one of the battles of the Russo-Japanese war, Sergei Karenin and Alexei Vronsky find themselves thrown together in a remote Manchurian village, where fate offers them a chance to return to the events long past and, finally, to find the answers both have long been seeking.

"Only fifty minutes to go until the end of the world, please head to the check-out!", thus goes the instruction that rings out from the loudspeakers of a Moscow supermarket. When cashier Gulya shuts up the shop and resolves to prepare for the apocalypse, a naked individual appears from amongst the aisles to claim that he has arrived from the future with the task of saving the planet. Originally from Bishkek, Gulya is supposedly the chosen mother of the savior, whom he, Alexander Merkuriev, is to impregnate. The morning after however it soon becomes clear that Alexander ended up in the wrong supermarket with the wrong Gulya. The right Gulya, who is actually from Tashkent, cannot keep the revelation to herself on learning of her destiny, and wastes no time in breaking the story to the media. This in turn proves such a sensation that even the Presidential Administration of Russia gets involved. All involved are soon brought back to earth however when a headmistress from a provincial...

A mental health doctor goes off on a journey to Thailand with his girlfriend. They live with her friends. She enjoys the vacation and he works at his dissertation in psychiatry. People around seem to him no less sick than in the nuthouse, until he falls in strange circumstances...

Elza lives in a small town in the Republic of Kalmykia on the Caspian Sea. Another year comes to an end, it’s cold and the steppe is covered in a thin layer of snow. When her husband, who makes a living from illegal fishing, asks her one night what she did during the day, she lies. She wasn’t at her mother’s, but at the bus stop. She thought of leaving – to find out what it might be to escape the infinite expanse of her dreary small world. But she didn’t dare; instead she stays and withdraws into herself, unconcerned by who might see. One day, her husband doesn’t return from a dangerous boat trip. It is said that a fisherman only returns if he has a woman waiting for him and that seagulls are the souls of the missing. At the start of a somewhat unplanned pregnancy, widowed and alone, Elza wanders ever further through the city, plotting a path between tradition and the contemporary until she’s no longer on familiar ground.

Anna has a sweetheart and a beloved mother. An insane attachment to the mother, who doesn't want to let her daughter go, prevents her from a relationship whit the man, and gives her no chance to lead an independent life.

Short film created from footage that has not been incorporated in the final cut of the film "The White Tiger" In June 1944 the Soviet arm encircled 53 army corps of General Gollwitzer in the Vitebsk area. The Germans fiercely defended themselves, and the Soviet army tightened the rina...

On the eve of the end of the world, a supermarket cashier encounters a scientist from the future who informs her that she must now become the mother of the savior of mankind

Great Patriotic War, 1945. After barely surviving a battle with a mysterious, ghostly-white German Tiger tank, Red Army Sergeant Ivan Naydenov becomes obsessed with its destruction.

«SLOVE» means Soldier of Love. This is how two brothers fighting corruption and crime are calling themselves...

A Russian journalist Sergey is hiding in one of the Balkan countries from police detectives who suspect him in a double murder.

The eleven-year boy lives in a usual family of a big city. As well as many modern young people he has got a loneliness problem. One day on his way there is an original man who reveals his vision life and shows the city from its roofs. It seems the secret ring of the city roofs lifts them to the sky and does them not such as all and the boy believes that he has found a true friend at last. But this man is unable to be friend; he's infantile and can't appreciate any relationships.

Simultaneously nihilistic and heartening, Ward No. 6 is based on a story by Chekov, in which a psychiatric doctor becomes a patient in his own asylum. Updated to contemporary Russia, the film is a cocktail of anxieties and riddles, showcasing how easy it is to become what we fear most.

One day in the life of a modern young man - manager of a large advertising agency. For this day he smokes a pack of cigarettes, with every cigarette and scene of the film a whirlwind of events and conflicts swirls around him more and more densely ...

The thirst for a miracle lives in every person. The hero of the film, Fedor, witnesses an accident, as a result of which people close to him die. He decides that he was not saved by chance and now must change his life. Fedor is trying to live the way Orthodox hermits lived, tormenting himself with prayers and fasts. In this new world, he finds a guide - Father Hilarion. The hermit finally has hope that he will soon become an eyewitness of Revelation. But Father Hilarion is being killed absurdly and senselessly. Having experienced deep despair, Fedor will return to the people, experience love and jealousy, hatred and fear. And only when he reaches the edge - having decided to kill - will he become a witness of a miracle...

An evocative, impressionistic drama of love and loss.

Film about the work of Ukrainian film director Kira Muratova.