In White Nights, an American dancer en route to Japan finds himself stranded in Siberia when his plane makes an emergency landing. There, he is drawn into the world of the KGB, the Bolshoi Ballet, and a woman with a dark secret. As he works to escape, he must confront his own inner demons and make a decision that will change his life forever.
In a single continuous take, the film explores the history of Russia through a mysterious unnamed protagonist who wanders through the Winter Palace of the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg.
In the aftermath of World War II, two women, Iya and Masha, try to piece their lives together in Leningrad. Iya, nicknamed Beanpole due to her tall stature, works as a nurse in a veterans hospital while Masha returns from the frontlines. However, their friendship and attempts to build a new life are challenged by trauma, loss, and the hardships of post-war Leningrad.
The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath! is a classic romantic comedy set in Leningrad. It follows the story of Zhenya who, on New Year's Eve, gets drunk with his friends and ends up flying to Leningrad instead of Moscow. In Leningrad, he mistakenly enters an identical apartment and falls asleep. When he wakes up, he believes he is still in Moscow and starts a relationship with Nadya, the girl living in the apartment. As their relationship develops, Zhenya must navigate the complications of mistaken identity and the consequences of his actions.
Dovlatov is a biographical drama set in 1970s Soviet Russia, depicting the life of writer Sergei Dovlatov. The film portrays his experiences as an artist in a repressive regime, his relationships with his family and friends, and his struggles with censorship and the black market.
The journalist becomes a victim of rape. To take revenge on the rapists, she makes a deal with the criminals. But things are beginning to unfold unpredictably...
Cold autumn of 1942. Second year of war. Former Molotov city, which was renamed after the war to Perm. The Leningrad Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet after Kirov is evacuated here and in the process of tense preparations for the premiere of the Gayane ballet. In 8 hours Khachaturian writes the most performed creation…
A woman living a difficult life suddenly finds love.
About the heroism and endless devotion to the Motherland of military sailors in Leningrad during the Great Patriotic War.
Amateur actors read stories from a book describing the 900-day siege of Leningrad during World War II.
Gunpowder is a film that depicts the events of the Siege of Leningrad during the Great Patriotic War. It follows the story of a group of soldiers on a combat mission, facing the brutal reality of war and showcasing the power of artillery fire. The movie showcases the struggles and heroism of the Soviet Union during World War II.
After the death of her father, Antonina Staroselskaya has difficulty finding work. A dull life is the cause of illness. A merchant seaman takes care of the sick Tona. After the marriage, he is arrested for smuggling, and the care of Tonya is transferred to a neighbor, who beats her from time to time. A chance meeting with the builders of a residential area awakens the desire to be closer to people, to become needed by someone - and Tonya comes to the construction site...
Park is a heartfelt story set in the beautiful Caucasus region of the Soviet Union. It revolves around a girl's journey of self-discovery and love amidst the changing social and political landscape of Azerbaijan and Leningrad, Russia.
A Russian composer and Japanese pianist enter a relationship strained by their geographic and cultural boundaries.
While investigating a murder the police captain discovers a relation with the events of a medieval times...
Sofya Petrovna, a typist from a publishing house in Leningrad, has her only son repressed. In her publishing house, managers and ordinary employees were repressed. And Sofya Petrovna begins walking around the offices, trying to explain that a mistake has occurred.
A montage of Leningrad newsreel becomes a composite collage made up of documents-shots, divided in 16 parts, presenting the author's point of view on Russia and modern times. In the title, Sokurov appears as 'compiler' and the selection of the documents is just like an artistic process.
Irina was only 3 years old when her mother, a worker at the Kirov Plant, decided to evacuate her from Leningrad. Working tirelessly at the tank production plant for weeks without a day off, her mother had no one to help care for her child. However, the train Irina was commuting in came under Nazi shelling. She was under the rubble for a day before she was rescued. Thus, the girl remained with her mother, enduring the most terrifying months in a city besieged by the Nazis. This is just one story among thousands of heroic Leningrad citizens. Despite hunger and constant shelling, they managed to donate 144 tons of blood over the years of the blockade to aid injured soldiers on the front lines, and never ceased the production of guns, which the soldiers of the Soviet Army desperately needed against the Nazis. In our new documentary, commemorating 80 years since the liberation of Leningrad from the Nazi blockade, witness the unwavering resilience of Leningraders like Irina and her mother.