Released Date:
2002-08-02
Languages:
Russian
Countries:
Russia, France, Germany
Runtime:
123 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (1487 Reviews)
Director:
Pavel LunginYuliy Dubov (novel)
Aleksandr Borodyanskiy (screenplay)
Pavel Lungin (screenplay)
Yuliy Dubov (screenplay)
During the Gorbachev years, Platon Makovski and his four buddies are university students who jump on the private capitalism movement. Fast-forward 20 years, Platon finds himself the richest man in Russia, having sacrificed his friends to get to the top. But with this cynical rise, comes a brutal fall.
Released Date:
2002-06-07
Languages:
Russian
Countries:
Russia
Runtime:
115 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (260 Reviews)
Director:
Ivan DykhovichnyyGenres:
ComedyIvan Dykhovichnyy
Vladimir Sorokin
In this movie we follow fate not a person but car: first Soviet Lada. It starts with Brezhnev daughter and then gradually moves on parallel to last years of USSR into wild after-perestroika years with bandits and newly born oligarchs.
Released Date:
2004-02-12
Languages:
Russian, Ukrainian
Countries:
Russia
Runtime:
115 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (970 Reviews)
Director:
Vladimir KhotinenkoAleksandr Pokrovsky (novels)
Valeri Zalotukha
Vladimir Khotinenko (participation)
The film begins in the 1980s Soviet Union. Two best friends, Orlov and Muravyev, are serving at the Black Sea Navy Base in Sevastopol, Crimea. Both fall in love with one beautiful girl Nelly, and their friendship suffers a first blow. Because she picks Muravyev, his friend Orlov struggles with an inferiority complex and becomes a secretive alcoholic. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, both friends are transferred to the Northern Fleet on the Polar Ocean. One day their sub is performing a routine training. A disturbed WWII mine slowly moves on a collision course with the sub. A mighty blast knocks down everyone inside the wrecked sub, 72 meters below the sea level. Then ensues a nerve-racking struggle for survival.
Released Date:
2006-02-02
Languages:
Russian, German
Countries:
Russia
Runtime:
97 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.2 (2143 Reviews)
Director:
Aleksandr AtanesyanAleksandr Atanesyan
Vladimir Kunin
A "Hitlerjugend" kind of story, set in the Soviet Union during the Second World War, based on a fictitious story from the eponymous book by Vladimir Kunin. The Red Army has a gang of juveniles for a clandestine operation against the Nazis. The boys are trained by a dangerous crime lord at a top secret boot camp. They are doomed to die in the mission, or after it, just to keep it a secret.
Released Date:
2007-03-01
Languages:
Russian
Countries:
Russia
Runtime:
100 min
IMDB Ratings:
5.4 (653 Reviews)
Director:
Aleksandr StrizhenovGenres:
ComedyRenat Davletyarov (participation)
Andrey Kureychik
Aleksandr Oleynikov (participation)
Aleksandr Strizhenov (participation)
Andrei and Marina are married for 7 years and they feel there is no more love. They ask a famous doctor to help them, and he helps... by putting their minds into the bodies of each other. Now Andrei is in his wife's head, so he lives the life of his own wife, who runs an art gallery, and Marina in the body of Andrei becomes a lawyer...
Released Date:
2007-04-01
Languages:
Russian
Countries:
Russia
Runtime:
112 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.5 (578 Reviews)
Director:
Karen OganesyanDmitriy Konstantinov
Alyona Zvantsova
Many people assume that life does not end after death. Not Dr. Tyrsa, practical and skeptical man, who never believed in this nonsense. However, thanks to the bowling accident, he finds himself in a desert land with people like him not belonging to this world yet not accepted into the other. Now Dr. Tyrsa realizes that the life he used to live was not so bad, and he's got something worth returning to.
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