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The Snow Queen

  On a frosty winter evening, the Snow Queen kidnaps Kai and turns his heart into a piece of ice. Gerda, wishing to return Kai home goes to search for Read More

Irony of Fate or Steam with Light

  The film’s main character is the quite lovable loser, Zhenya, an agreeable doctor in his mid-thirties who lives with his mother in Moscow.  He has finally gotten engaged to Read More

Ilya Muromets

  Because his legs have been paralyzed since birth, Ilya (Boris Andreyev) can only watch helplessly when his village is plundered by barbarians. But when a mysterious traveler gives him Read More

Walking the Streets of Moscow

  Volodya is an aspiring writer from Siberia. His first short story has just been published in the magazine Yunost (“Youth”), and a famous author, Voronin, has invited him to Read More

Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future

  The story begins in 1973 Moscow, where engineer Aleksandr “Shurik” Timofeyev (Aleksandr Demyanenko) is working on a time machine in his apartment. By accident, he sends Ivan Vasilievich Bunsha Read More

We Call Him Robert

  A constructor Sergei creates a robot Robert as his own copy. Tanya teaches Robert to feel and the robot becomes more human than his rationalistic creator…

The Cranes Are Flying

  As the clouds of war spread over Russia during Germany’s surprise invasion in 1941, the fervent young lovers, the sensitive Veronika and the stalwart Boris, are parted when the Read More

Vovochka

  Vovochka is 10 years old, tireless and irrepressible and has a God-given talent for stirring up trouble. He’s also a particularly inventive daredevil who’s more than a match for Read More

The Barber of Siberia

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

Beware of the Car

  Yuri Detochkin (Smoktunovsky) is a humble Soviet insurance agent who steals cars from corrupt Soviet officials in a manner akin to Robin Hood, disappointed by the militsiya being unable Read More