Tag Archives: Modern Russia

The movie is set in the brig, the walls of which are painted in a poisonous green color. There fall into two junior officers, Sergei ...

The Old Man and the Sea is a gorgeous paint-on-glass short film by master animator, Aleksandr Petrov. The film is an adaptation of the short ...

Douglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new, experimental steam-driven timber harvester in the ...

The genre of the film DUST could be called fantastic realism or existential drama with elements of the fantastic. Dust means the haste in which ...

A “Hitlerjugend” kind of story, set in the Soviet Union during the Second World War, based on a fictitious story from the eponymous ...

Srubov is a part of CHEKA, the secret police Lenin established after the Bolshevik Revolution. They arrest, interview for a minute, try in ten ...

A lonely Russian man is trying to see his doughter who lives with her mother far away in the USA.

This story take place in Moscow during the 1970s and unfolds around the love triangle between two young men and a girl who study at the same ...

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 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 ...

The ruthless extremist Bazgaev responsible for terrorist attacks which lead to deaths of hundreds of civilians, among them school children, is ...

One day in the life of Elena Ivanovna in St. Petersburg in search of a man, sex and, maybe, love.

The sequel to the wildly popular Russian rom-com, About Love. It’s Moscow, summer 2016. A new lecture, a new lecturer with a new theme: ...

What is love? The heroes of the film try to answer this question. A series of the most different characters and their stories are woven together. ...

The fanciful tale of an introverted little girl who grows up believing she has the power to make wishes come true. She must reconcile this belief ...

Somewhere deep, deep in Russia there is a town called Marks (named after Karl Marks, founder of Communism theory) where all people are working on ...

Three different persons, three different lives are connected in a mysterious way. 15 year old teenager suffering of misunderstanding, his ...

This is a pretty recent Russian WWII movie well worth checking out. It’s based on the Soviet legend about a group of 28 Red Army soldiers ...

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 ...

A novelist struggling with writer’s block enlists the aid of an assassin for some inspiration — fully unaware that he is being set up ...

A two days from the life of Pyotr Drozdov, a highly ranked official from Moscow, which he spends with young museum employee Masha.

A young Lera witnessed a murder, so now she must escape the killers who’re trying to kill her.

Based on Valentin Rasputin’s story of the same title. The winter of 1945. In a village on the Angara embankment the women wait the return ...

In present-day Moscow ghosts of three little girls killed by their insane mother randomly pick a person to watch over for a three days. If during ...

May, 1945… A young pilot Aleksey Kaverin stationed in Germany is going home to Russia for vacation. The problem is he needs to bring a ...

Heavenly Judgement, aka Heavenly Court, is an interesting contemporary Russian film about the afterlife. Once a person dies, he must stand before ...

Stepan and Doker are street racers. They love cars and speed. But there is a difference between them which brings them to face each other in a ...

Tolik didn’t succeed in life, sports career did not work, his wife left him. Unsuccessful, unloved, hopeless, he has lost faith in himself. ...

Yolki, also known in English as Six Degrees of Celebration, is a vibrant tapestry of interconnected stories that embodies the spirit of the New ...

Adequacy is relative. Vitalik the main character of the movie seems to be pretty normal. With a respectable office job, a comfy little dwelling ...

Contemporary Russia. Nadya gives up her dream of becoming a champion figure skater when she is hospitalized with an injury. But then she meets ...

I Am Dragon is an exciting Russian take on the Beauty and the Beast-style genre of romantic fantasy.  In the film, the young Princess ...

A French marquis wanders through a vast labyrinth of corridors, theaters and ballrooms at a reception for a Persian ambassador.

The Return is an exquisite film of mythical proportions by acclaimed director, Andrei Zvyagintsev. It was his debut feature film and is ...

Vladimir is reaching the end of his life and decides to leave his wealth to his only daughter, cutting out his wife and her son from his will. ...

A widowed aeronautics engineer, who has lost his job, travels with his son hopping freight trains from Moscow to Koktebel, a town by the Black ...

How I Ended this Summer is one of the more significant Russian arthouse films of recent years. This tense drama tells the story of two men ...

The film represents life in a godforsaken Russian village. The only way to reach the mainland is to cross the lake by boat and a postman became ...

The film is set inside a russian mansion and begins with morning procedures for one of 1900s most controversial politicians, Lenin.

Champion boxer Artyom Kolchin climbed all conceivable heights and became a national hero. He does not enter the boxing ring any more, rather ...

Artem Kolchin was one of many, but he wanted glory. And he has chosen the way: he became the boxer. Now Artem the applicant for a champion title, ...

Biopic of Russian ice hockey legend Valeri Kharlamov from early childhood, rising to the pinnacle of the sport and his untimely death

Calculator takes place in the distant future. Ten prisoners are sentenced to life-long exile from their home planet. To establish a new life, ...

A young guy from province arrives to Moscow and his life turns upside down.

Sonya, a popular super model, proposes to Sasha in order to irritate her boyfriend, a famous TV star Ruslan – and adventures begin…

Contemporary Russia. Mitya and Alisa are set to get married. The problem is that Mitya is still married to Vasya, who refuses to grant him a ...

In this hit Russian musical, a group of friends flaunts Soviet authority in 1950s Moscow by embracing jazz. When Communist Mels falls for Polly, ...

Young Russian Prince Yaroslav fights the robbers, tribes and the invaders. He is the first to unite Russian lands and to create the original ...

It’s a story of 29-year-old top-manager Max who is really sure he is absolutely successful. All his life is around earning and spending ...

Two escaped convicts pose as children’s summer camp staff in order to evade capture and learn about caring for others in the process. ...

In pre-Soviet Russia, Boris Savinkov leads a terrorist faction of Socialist-Revolutionary Party members responsible for the deaths of governors ...

The story starts in a Siberia where world’s biggest diamond was found. It is so valuable that it may not only pay off the enormous national ...

A story about two young men during the last days of WWII.

The film is based on the eponymous book by Emmanuil Kazakevich. In the summer of 1944 the Nazi Armies prepare a massive Tank Division named ...

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

Leviathan is one of the most critically acclaimed films to come out of Russia in recent years. This Zvyagintsev masterpiece spins a formidable ...

14+ is a Russian movie by Andrei Zaitsev. It was shot in 2013 and released in 2015. Of note is that Zaitsev cast inexperienced teenagers that he ...

An oligarch orders the employees of a Moscow radio station to head out to one of the Volga regions to conduct a local governor election campaign. ...

Fantastic story of the first half of the XIX century about a monk named Ivan who must fight the dark forces in his monastery.