Ivan Tverdovsky

Parajanov. Tarkovsky. Antipenko. Chiaroscuro

The poetic film essay on poems by Arseny Tarkovsky reveals the mystery of the fate and work of three prominent filmmakers - Sergey Parazhdanov, Andrey Tarkovsky, Alexandr Antipenko.

Eastern Front

Much has been said about the Great Patriotic War (World War II), but more has not been said. This film shows the war with the eyes of the German soldiers. It is the story of an error of fatal choice that has been the cause of the most cruel war in the history of humanity.

Mom It's Me

Former children's homes Inna and Dima are struggling to establish a normal life for themselves and their four-year-old daughter Vary, but something all the time goes wrong? not one, so another.

Grumant: The Island of Communism

Every year, a group of Russian seasonal workers returns to bleak Barentsburg on the island of Svalbard to perform dangerous work in the mines.

Long. Black. Cloud is Coming Down

Two young residents of Moscow, recently graduated, hire a car, buy tickets and drive... Their parents built communism, their grandfathers overcame fascism, but for them there is nothing to built and to struggle for. Two young residents of Moscow, recently graduated, spend time on the internet and do not clearly understand what they are living for, don’t understand their country and don’t see a perspective in the future. Television has plagued them with Big Winter Olympic Games in Sochi and they hire a car, buy tickets and drive throughout the country to see competitions, Black sea and Russian countryside.

Sweet Life

Masha is a kept woman. She lives in Moscow with a support of her rich married lover. One day she begins to make her own video-blog on YouTube, advising other women how to behave with men. This blog starts very quickly to gain unpredictable popularity. The film follows the vicissitudes of Masha\'s life, her attempt to become independent, her travel to motherland (Ukraine) and her fails to find love without price.

Koktebel Stones

The film tells about the founding of the city of Koktebel a real secret adviser Eduard Jung, who in 1890 left the service in Moscow and moved to the arid lands of the future Koktebel. Maximilian Voloshin in 1903 in Koktebel began to build his own house, which later became the center of the spiritual life of Russia.

Dell and His Space to Dwell

Once upon a time, a stage director with German surname Dell read from Saltykov-Shchedrin that «Skopin is such city where any person has no reason to dwell». So he decided to create a real theatre there, in Ryazan region, in a small provincial town, «where any person has no reason to dwell».

Two Sides of One Horse

To understand what is happening in modern Russia, it is not enough to go out and look around, or read news bulletins. If you want to get insight, the best way is to radically change the angle of view and look at everything, for example, with the eyes ... of a horse that serves in the operational regiment in the center of the capital.

On the way to Las Vegas

The main character is Karina Barbie, a star of striptease, who invented herself the image of "The Living Doll". The walking encyclopedia of the blonde. Arrived to conquer Moscow from Karaganda. From the movie, the viewer learns that Karina-Barbie is going to move the Madonna and make a pink castle in Las Vegas ... What is hidden behind the mask of a glamorous diva? Does the imaginary image correspond to the girl. Or is she playing so hard that she does not remember her true face?

Pianism

Pianism is the occupation of piano music. Means masterly possession of the instrument. In the life of the main character, the honored artist of Russia, laureate of international competitions Sergey Musaelyan, this term takes a slightly different meaning.

Portrait «Under the Fly»

Little novels from the life of the Leningrad poet Oleg Grigoriev. His fate, like his poems, is a flip-flop, where good and evil exist under the masks of each other.