Known for Acting
A story of Larisa, an actress of a provincial theater. Despite her talent, commitment to the work she loves and years of dedication to theater, Larisa never got a role longer than a couple of phrases. Will she be able to prove to the director, spectators and, first of all, to herself, that she deserves much more and what will she risk to achieve it?
A young documentary filmmaker is shooting a film about a girl who got lost in the forest and stayed there. In order to find out how this happened, he interviews her neighbors: Leshy, Water and his mermaids and Sinister.
Most of us say the word "Mama" without thinking. But there are children who have never uttered this word in their lives. The film is about these children, orphans. In these children, no less love than in each of us. And they are waiting. Sometimes too long. But they never cease to believe for a second that one day they will be able to say this simple word. The word "Mama" ...
After her release from prison, Katerina tries to start a new life. After some unsuccessful attempts to find a job, she manages to find work washing dishes in a children’s home. The youngest and most problematic child, Vanya, decides that Katerina is his real mother.
The film is about the life and death of the outstanding playwright Alexander Vampilov. Life and death, which reflected the era. The two most important meanings are connected in this story. The fate of a simple provincial man who chooses the path of the artist and the love of their native places.
Anna is the daughter of a banker and grew up in a wealthy family with loving parents who have been waiting for grandchildren for a long time. Anna has never considered herself a beauty, but now she believes that luck has finally smiled on her. She marries Egor. But on the day of her wedding Anna learns that the groom has long been cheating on her with another, and decided to marry her only for the sake of her father's money. She runs away from the registry office and gets into the nearest cab. She has nowhere to go, so she offers a casual acquaintance, the cab driver Pasha, to take her in for a week. Pasha urgently needs money, so he agrees, not realizing what surprises await him ahead. It turns out that Anya is a "walking disaster", everything in her hands burns and breaks. And here also from the village come Pasha's parents, who take Anya for his long-awaited bride. In order not to traumatize his mother, who has a heart condition, Pasha asks Anya to play along.
This is a collection of portraits: 23 short stories about the Mari women, a sort of Decameron suspended between magic and realism, in which the Autonomous Republic of the Marij El serves as a backdrop for the collective history of a people of ancient tradition. A journey into a mysterious and unknown part of the world.
This story unites the destinies of the landowners and their servants, and is considered to be one of the most complete portraits of the Russian life in the late XIX century. It takes place in Dry Valley, a village owned by the noble family of Khrushevs. The story tells about Natalia, a young and naive girl who serves in their country house. We see and experience her love, dedication to her masters, mysticism, exile, betrayal and faith, while the Dry Valley is falling to pieces, slowly but inevitably, as well as the lives of its inhabitants.
The film covers the heroic defence of the Brest Fortress, which was attacked during the first strike of German invaders on June 22 1941. The story describes the events of the first days of the defence, including the three main resistance zones, headed by the regiment commander, Pyotr Mikhailovich Gavrilov, the commissar Efim Moiseevich Fomin and the head of the 9th frontier outpost, Andrey Mitrofanovich Kizhevatov. Many years later veteran Alexander Akimov again recalls the memories of the time, when he, then a 15 year old Sasha Akimov was deeply in love with the beautiful Anya and suddenly found himself in the middle of the bloody events of war.
Remake film. Russian drama school domination. In the last quarter of graduating class comes a new student, violating all classifications, and an affront to the leader. That, in turn, is ready to do anything not to give up this title until the end of school days. How badly would not have had to deal with those who stand in his path to goal.
Two women are in love with the same man. After his death, some kind of friendship comes into being.
