Artyom Karapetyan

Diamonds. Theft

This is a poetic film set in the times of Lenin's NEP. A ballet dancer steals a brooch and gives it as a present to another dancer. This is a crime of passion. A mysterious black ball is after the heroine. She runs away from it and manages to give the brooch in an exquisite pirouette movement, as shiny as diamond facets. What gives a stone its dazzling luster are its polished facets. But the real gem is love, and it's much harder to get than any diamond in the world.

Pretty Frog

A modern version of the famous Russian fairy tale "The Frog Princess".

Tender Age

A movie which at first seems like a simple life story of an ordinary young man slowly evolves into an extraordinarily told ballade with twofold meaning - sad and optimistic at the same time...

The Great Commander Georgy Zhukov

Biopic about Marshal Georgi Zhukov. Documentary footage from WWII and dramatization played by Russian and German actors.

Fig to Kokui!

Russians once called Kokui a settlement inhabited by foreigners. It was believed that the customs prevailing in such settlements had nothing to do with Russian national customs. Such a "Kokui" was the base near Moscow, located in a corner of paradise, where every morning rescue sailor Natasha swam naked and, perhaps, therefore seemed accessible to everyone. Men suddenly fell in love with morning fishing, women are preparing a terrible massacre, the authorities do not know how to prevent a social explosion...

Squad "D"

Dangerous and attractive adventures at sea and on land: passionate love, a meeting with death, the exoticism of the Far East and a desperate fight against drug dealers...

Thy Will, O Lord!

The film's characters are Pavel, a successful rake journalist who writes on acute Perestroika topics, and an intelligent but free woman (a doctor by profession) who is trying to escape from unnecessary love. A chance acquaintance becomes the beginning of their long difficult relationship on the way to love and mutual understanding.

The Ghosts of the Green Room

According to the story of JB Prestley "Jenny Villiers." Actors of the London Theater gathered in the Green Room of Barton Spa, a kind of theater museum. The playwright Martin Civerell expresses his doubts that the theater is able to regain its former charm. Left alone in the Green Room, Civerell sees the actors of the last century and becomes a witness to the drama that happened here a hundred years ago...

The Mediator

In an ordinary industrial Soviet town, notable only for presence of a radio-telescope, people start behaving strangely, in a robotic manner, while assuming geometry-inspired aliases and organizing into a new hierarchy. The phenomenon spreads via a device of alien origin, called “the mediator”, capable of implanting extraterrestrial minds into human bodies. The aliens are bound by limitations of the terrestrial technology, having to use the means at the disposal of humans to prepare the grounds for the full-scale invasion. With “the mediator" being unable to subdue minds of children, lunatics, geniuses, and rebels, a struggle over the fate of the town and the human civilization ensues.

Inhuman

Criminals kidnapped the son of the chairwoman of the city administration. Feelings of helplessness and fear follow. A series of checks, mocking calls, humiliating requests for help to colleagues in the "shadow business" goes on and on.

Two Camels Were Flying

Animal musicians who cannot play well create an ensemble that, oddly enough, is successful, performing the hit song “Two Camels Flew.”

Ordinary Dangerous Adventure

The straight A student and the slacker unexpectedly appear on a dangerous adventure, bonding and becoming friends along the way.

The Red Arrow

The Red Arrow is the special train No.1 between Leningrad and Moscow. The film is set in the 1980s during perestroika in the Soviet Union. Kropotov (Lavrov) is communist CEO of a big industrial company in Leningrad. He is crafty and successful in getting a major order from the Soviet Government; building an automated assembly line. But his style of management clashes with his subordinates, talented engineers. Their potential is strangled by Kropotov's manipulative control. The government order is not accomplished and Kropotov gets fired. He is rethinking his outdated business style while on the train No.1 to Moscow.

There you are, butter week!

A clever boy punishes a greedy landlord. Based on the Armenian folk tale by Hovhannes Tumanyan, "Barekendan" (Բարեկենդան).

Rubik's Cube

Animated TV magazine for schoolchildren, including the cartoons "A Box with Pencils", "Have You Seen a Hare?" and "Rubik's Cube - clowning".

Meet Grandma

The cartoon tells about an ordinary family, where the mother constantly talks on the phone, the father watches TV, and the child, whom no one cares for, throws toys around. Everything changes with the arrival of a grandmother from another city. The family receives her coldly. Only the grandson is happy about her arrival. But as if by magic, order comes into the house, things are put in their places, the dishes are washed in the kitchen, and how delicious the food and pies are from grandma! The parents now argue less among themselves, the son is well-groomed and cheerful. But the grandmother leaves as suddenly as she arrived, and now her arrival is awaited with great impatience, and even the mother hopes that the mother-in-law will stay with them longer.

Wow! A Talking Fish!

Created in 1983, the animated movie uses the plot of Ovanes Tumanyan's tale "Talking fish".

Die Kolonie

South America at the beginning of the 1980s. A man is on the run from a group of armed pursuers. He does not manage to escape and is shot down mercilessly. Young Maria witnesses the cruel event and asks her friend, the journalist Oswaldo, to find out about the backgrounds of this case. The police also start to investigate the case and find out that a mysterious German farm is involved in the shooting. But the farm lies in an exterritorial area, thus the police officers cannot investigate any further.

Fiasco of Operation Terror

The action-packed historical and revolutionary film about the struggle of the VCHK with the international conspiracy against the Soviet government in Russia in the beginning 20s. On the activities of Dzerzhinsky, chairman of the VCHK, People's Commissar of Internal Affairs and at the same time Commissar of Railways. About the work on resuscitation of a collapsed industry, army, railways, to which the Iron Felix attracts (some by threats, some by persuasion) pre-revolutionary intellectuals.

The Coward

A cowardly man is being scared by trolls underneath an old tree.

Polar Fox Napoleon III

A young arctic fox Napoleon III, having escaped from animal farm, ended up in the village of Kovylkino. Following him, hunters, trappers, animal farm workers, a police detachment and correspondents came into the village. Thanks to the six-year-old preschooler Serpokrylov, everything ended well, and the people who took part in the pursuit of the young arctic fox returned to their business, having managed to tell about their dreams and about themselves.

The Last F

Once a very curious sixth grader lost interest in studying for unknown reasons. He even reconciled that he would remain in the second year.

The Most Beautiful Horse

A serious passion for equestrian sports helped the F student become one of the best in the class.

Trans-Siberian Express

An espionage thriller set aboard the train of the title. A group of agents try to thwart the Japanese-Soviet trade agreement by assassinating a Japanese businessman.

Moscow-Cassiopeia

Start of interstellar expedition equipped by "pioneers"(soviet scouts).

My Destiny

Mikhail Nikolaevich Ermakov has come a long and difficult life path. At the age of nineteen, the student, the son of a worker, was sent on a Komsomol ticket to work in the Cheka. In one of the operations he was seriously wounded. And now, many years later, General Ermakov comes to Moscow and settles in the house where he spent his youth...

Black Rusks

The November Revolution of 1918 in Germany, famine and social upheaval evoke a response from the young Soviet government in Russia. To provide food assistance, trains with bread are being formed. One of them, on the personal instructions of V.I. Lenin is accompanied by the young revolutionary Tatyana . On the way, she meets a former German prisoner of war, Kurt . A romantic relationship arises between them. The train with bread, despite all the difficulties, was delivered. In a clash with a detachment of counter-revolutionary German troops, Tatyana was wounded. She returns to Moscow, and Kurt goes to Berlin to continue the revolutionary struggle.

Liberation: The Break Through

A grandiose military film epic, which does not know analogues in world cinema: the history of the Great Patriotic War from the Battle of the Kursk Bulge to the installation of the Banner of Victory over the Reichstag - "Liberation".

Liberation: The Fire Bulge

The "Fiery Arc" tells of a grandiose battle on the Kursk Bulge in the summer of 1943. Here was the largest tank battle in the history of World War II. Along with the personal fate of the heroes, the film shows battle scenes, the activities of headquarters and intelligence, those who worked at the front and in the rear.

Exodus

It shows how the October Revolution affected the hearts of the Mongolian people, and how they defeated the white bandit Baron Ungern at the beginning of the revolution and put an end to his evil activities.

Prodavets Vozdukha

Soviet geologist Viktor Klimenko with his guide and assistant, Yakut Nikol, fall into the trap of enterprising businessmen. They are going to conserve all the air in order to sell it monopoly, profit and dictate their will to the rest of the world.

The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin

A Russian engineer Petr Garin possesses a unique beam-shooting weapon that can destroy any target. His goal is to achieve world domination with the help of this weapon. Vasily Shelga is out to stop him and also to prevent others getting possession of this weapon.

On Duty

A story of two arctic aviation pilots in the Soviet post-war times. The younger one is a son of a man repressed and killed by the Stalin regime, who also was a friend of the captain.

Captain of the First Rank

Zakhar Psaltyrev went through many ordeals in the royal fleet, where massacres and bullying of people became a custom. Only thanks to his natural intelligence and perseverance, the illiterate peasant boy managed to avoid the fate of many of his comrades, who became drunkards and lost their human dignity. Captain 1st Rank Lezvin, commander of the cruiser "Svyatoslav", himself suffocating in the difficult atmosphere of the tsarist autocracy, fatherly fell in love with his messenger for his simple Russian soul, quick-witted mind, love for the homeland and hatred of oppression. Zakhar learned a lot from Lezvin, but soon they had to part. Zakhar becomes an active underground Bolshevik.

For Honor

The millionaire’s daughter can't stand the disgrace, when learns that his father made his fortune by stealing from his former companion.

The Second Caravan

Armenians living in Chicago decide to leave the capitalist United States and emigrate to Soviet Armenia after World War II.