Vladimir Gerchikov

Kamancha could die in the Chechen war, could die from wounds or drugs. But he survived and saw the light. He says about himself, "I was a creature, but I want to become God's creation."

The picture became a continuation of the series "Kuchuguri and Surroundings" released in the 1990s.

Writer Mikhail Prishvin kept a secret diary for almost 50 years, from 1905 to 1954. This is a unique chronicle of the life of the country, evidence of the most complex relations between the state and a person trying to understand his time. The film tells about Prishvin's trip to the White Sea Canal and an attempt to write an honest book about this construction site.

Writer Mikhail Prishvin kept a secret diary for almost 50 years, from 1905 to 1954. This is a unique chronicle of the life of the country, evidence of the most complex relations between the state and a person trying to understand his time. The film tells about Prishvin's trip to the White Sea Canal and an attempt to write an honest book about this construction site.

Writer Mikhail Prishvin kept a secret diary for almost 50 years, from 1905 to 1954. This is a unique chronicle of the life of the country, evidence of the most complex relations between the state and a person trying to understand his time. The film tells about Prishvin's trip to the White Sea Canal and an attempt to write an honest book about this construction site.

Hundreds of thousands of scientists have left Russia in recent decades. Some are returning. Russia greets those who come back in different ways.

Hundreds of thousands of scientists have left Russia in recent decades. Some are returning. Russia greets those who come back in different ways.

Hundreds of thousands of scientists have left Russia in recent decades. Some are returning. Russia greets those who come back in different ways.

The hero of the film is Danila Zaitsev, an Old Believer born in China, an Argentine citizen who has traveled almost the whole world. What was he looking for? What was he striving for? What was he escaping from? Danila wrote a book about his travels, which received an award in Russia.

In the maternity hospital, Sergei Panteleev was classified as a "non-resident", his parents refused him, and it seemed that his biography ended before it began. But he survived, did not disappear either in an orphanage or in a neuropsychiatric boarding house. Moreover, at the age of 30, he became the master of his fate, the owner of a one-room apartment and a human rights activist ... He calls himself a "tenacious man".

In the maternity hospital, Sergei Panteleev was classified as a "non-resident", his parents refused him, and it seemed that his biography ended before it began. But he survived, did not disappear either in an orphanage or in a neuropsychiatric boarding house. Moreover, at the age of 30, he became the master of his fate, the owner of a one-room apartment and a human rights activist ... He calls himself a "tenacious man".

In the maternity hospital, Sergei Panteleev was classified as a "non-resident", his parents refused him, and it seemed that his biography ended before it began. But he survived, did not disappear either in an orphanage or in a neuropsychiatric boarding house. Moreover, at the age of 30, he became the master of his fate, the owner of a one-room apartment and a human rights activist ... He calls himself a "tenacious man".

On the border of Russia and Kazakhstan, on the salt lake Baskunchak at the beginning of the XXI century, people had to make a choice. Maybe the most important in life… Having become shareholders of their company, they could breathe new life into it and confidently build their future, but they preferred another, more profitable, at first glance, option.

The hero of the film, Yuri Alekseev, teaches children to play the violin and tries to make their world, and his, too, a little kinder. It does not always work out, but the teacher does not give up. At the International Documentary Film Festival "Flahertiana" – 2014, the film was recognized as the Best non-fiction film of the national competition.

The hero of the film, Yuri Alekseev, teaches children to play the violin and tries to make their world, and his, too, a little kinder. It does not always work out, but the teacher does not give up. At the International Documentary Film Festival "Flahertiana" – 2014, the film was recognized as the Best non-fiction film of the national competition.

The hero of the film - a young scientist-crystallographer Artem Oganov has achieved outstanding results in his industry. He predicted the composition and structure of a substance that is located deep in the earth, almost 3,000 kilometers from the surface. This discovery made him famous all over the world.

Most researchers consider Andrey Platonov's novel "Chevengur" to be a great dystopia, but there are people who are sure that there was a settlement with the same or similar name, for example, Kuchuguri, and with the same fate. And in general, there is a view of Platonov as a brilliant documentarian who did not compose anything, but only recorded how it really was.

Most researchers consider Andrey Platonov's novel "Chevengur" to be a great dystopia, but there are people who are sure that there was a settlement with the same or similar name, for example, Kuchuguri, and with the same fate. And in general, there is a view of Platonov as a brilliant documentarian who did not compose anything, but only recorded how it really was.

Most researchers consider Andrey Platonov's novel "Chevengur" to be a great dystopia, but there are people who are sure that there was a settlement with the same or similar name, for example, Kuchuguri, and with the same fate. And in general, there is a view of Platonov as a brilliant documentarian who did not compose anything, but only recorded how it really was.

This is the story of an ordinary policeman Alexey Mikheev, who became a victim of his colleagues. He was accused of a crime he didn't commit. Tortured. Unable to withstand the torture, He jumped out of the window and became disabled. For almost 10 years he has been seeking justice.

This is the story of an ordinary policeman Alexey Mikheev, who became a victim of his colleagues. He was accused of a crime he didn't commit. Tortured. Unable to withstand the torture, He jumped out of the window and became disabled. For almost 10 years he has been seeking justice.

In 2005, Mikhail Khodorkovsky was found guilty of economic crimes and sentenced to 11 years in prison. But this film is not about the most famous political prisoner. This is the reaction of the population of our country to the arrest of Khodorkovsky, recorded conversations on the streets of different cities with the first passers-by. The people's ruthlessness, the desire for blood, the joyful readiness to execute lynching themselves, saving the fatherland, over all who are smarter, richer, freer, over Jews and people of a different mentality – this is a frighteningly objective assessment of us, residents of sovereign Russia, a country whose future may never come.

Yuri Vella is a Nenets hunter and poet, fighting with an oil concern for his ancestral lands.

80-year-old Anna Filippovna and 63-year-old Alexey Fedorovich, residents of the village of Kuchuguri in the Voronezh region (the village about which director Gerchikov shot a real documentary saga), come to New Year's Eve Moscow, although they have not traveled further than the nearest district center from their native Kuchugurs in recent decades....

In the Voronezh village of Kuchugury, in the Nizhnedevitsky district, on the very border with the Kursk region, Vladimir Gerchikov is filming a documentary soap opera - a series about local residents whose worldview combines the myths of the Soviet past and deep peasant wisdom in the most bizarre way. The Kuchugur chronicle includes 25 episodes in which it shows the naked truth about a modern village drowning in impassable mud, thinking aloud about Gorbachev and Yeltsin, interpreting current events as they understand them.

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