Aleksei Zharkov

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 ...

A young boy’s dreams of glory and war turn into a bitter nightmare as his father’s kingdom is overrun by an invading army. Lost and ...

Vadim Uporov is desperate to escape from the Gulag. He tries and tries – again and again…

Two friends, Al and Max, decide to spend the weekend fishing, during which, amid an incomprehensible noise, a briefcase full of dollars suddenly ...

A parable about loneliness and the fear of death.

The mad day of the successful citizen — the electrician Vasily Ivanovich began with visit of the Commission on check of the complaint to the ...

Russia, January 25, 1725. “Give it all…”. The emperor’s weakening hand was able to write in his will only these two short ...

It is hard to know the future. It is even more difficult to feel its inevitability. He is a tax collector. He has an inexplicable, supernatural ...

Is it easy to be a walking corpse? How do you spend a half a million dollars? Can you fall in love with the same bride twice?

An adaptation of the play by Ukrainian playwright Mykola Gogol, set in Tsarist Russia during the 19th century. A provincial town plagued by ...

After falling in love with a much younger girl a rich businessman is trying to find an ancient elixir which will make him younger as well.

Two Russian soldiers, one battle-seasoned and the other barely into his boots and uniform, are taken prisoner by an anxious Islamic father from a ...

Set in a small Ukrainian village during the outbreak of war with Germany in 1941 Private Chonkin, not overly endowed with intelligence, is left ...

The history of Rus’ since inviting of the Varangians, led by Rurik, to converting of Princess Olga to Christianity.

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 ...

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

Aleksey and Katerina separated twenty years ago. He left for the West, she stayed in the East. They will meet again in Switzerland under ...

A middle-aged, alcoholic lawyer inherits a mysterious, unsigned will from his father.

A biopic about a Soviet general V. Gorbatov.

Two young friends are looking for adventures and women during New Year night.

Twenty-year-old Bob rides 1000 km to Moscow on his vintage motorbike to collect a bad debt for his boss; the city chews up and spits out this ...

The action takes place in Lwów (L’viv) on the eve of World War II. A former White Army officer (Vladimir Mashkov) after the defeat of the ...

Two school friends have not seen each other for twenty years. During this time, one became an aircraft engineer, the other a gold digger. Quite ...

Pavel and Pavelina leave their rural countryside homes and move to Moscow to find work. Once there, they find that urban life is not what they ...

After coming out of jail a sneak thief “Chibis” plans a big afaire.

A romantic and funny fantasy about the events occurred during the building of a first railroad in Russia.

The political drama is set in the Stalin’s Soviet Union after the Second World War. A British archaeologist Andrei Miller is working in ...