Ilya Khrzhanovskiy

Three strangers meet in a late night Moscow bar and spin incredible stories about themselves -- all of which turn out to be lies. (Leisure Time Features)

Biographical film, epically depicting the life of the famous scientist Lev Landau. (imdb)

Natasha works in the canteen of a secret Soviet research institute. She drinks a lot, likes to talk about love and embarks on an affair. State security intervenes. A tale of violence that is as radical as it is provocative.

A secret Soviet Institute conducts scientific and occult experiments on animals and human beings to create the perfect person. Azhippo, KGB general and his aides turn a blind eye to erotic adventures of the director of the Institute, scandalous debauches of prominent scientists and their cruel and insane research. (imdb)

Once just a girl from the provinces, Nora is now married to a successful scientist and lives together with her family within the confines of a secret and privileged Moscow institute. Nora is visited by her mother for the first time since her wedding. Her mother closely observes the atmosphere within the couple's home, trying to work out whether her daughter is happy. During the course of their intimate conversations the complexity of their contradictory relationship is revealed. (imdb)

It is 1956. Dau is a distinguished Soviet scientist who meets up with the love of his youth - Maria, a Greek actress - during her three day visit to Moscow. They haven't seen each other for 25 years. He is a successful and prosperous scientist now, but feels excruciatingly dissatisfied with his family life. Through her he hopes to regain lost harmony and beauty, but reality intrudes when Nora, his wife, returns home. (imdb)

It is 1953, Stalin has just died. It is a troubled and uncertain period for the whole of the Soviet Union, particularly for the state security services. In the Institute, a secret research facility, the scientists continue their theoretical and experimental work. Every night they strain their ears to listen for footsteps in the dark corridors: who have they come for this time? Who has reported on who? (imdb)

The Empire is a film in the genre of a novel, in four books. "The Return of the Prodigal Son", "War and Peace", "the Big Bang", lasting 8.5 hours. The Big Terror, Power and Man, Revolution and War, Christianity, Buddhism, Shamanism, the Atomic Bomb, Scientists and Physicists, etc. «State security warriors», wives, girlfriends, employees - that is the theme of the novel, which tells the story of the destiny and resistance of a genius in the era of dystopian Empire. (imdb)

Nikita Nekrasov is a scientist, a theoretical physicist who studies our world and other possible worlds. He refuses to make a choice between mathematics and physics, between one woman and another, as he ponders the existence of the multi-universe. At scientific conferences, attended by eminent foreign scientists and a rising younger generation of physicists alike, Nekrasov gets carried away debating the beauty of string theory. (imdb)

Within the top secret Institute of Physics Problems, the scientist Nikita Nekrasov is visited by his wife and small children. While away from his family the physicist has managed to fall in love with other women. In open conversations with his spouse - in the bedroom, the dining room, and while out walking - he attempts to convince her of the legitimacy of polygamous relationships, and to test the limits of her unconditional love. (imdb)

Katya, a young librarian, believes in love, but her ideals are crushed by reality. After a string of disappointing affairs, Katya finally finds tenderness and understanding in the arms of her colleague, a journalist called Tanya. But then the First Department interferes: the state security services see this relationship as unacceptable for a Soviet woman. (imdb)

Maxim and his comrades-in-arms are participating in top-secret experiments into the creation of a new man. The employees of the secret Institute are characterized by everything Maxim detests: alcoholism, depravity, weak will, loss of ideals, and lack of faith in the future. Vika, one of the waitresses in the Institute's cafeteria, falls in love with the young communist, though she is scared by his fascination with eugenics and his violent tendencies. (imdb)