Sergei Dontsov

Told in one fluid shot, a tale which floats like a dreamlike journey through the majestic spaces of the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, engaging real and imagined characters from Russian and European history. The nameless protagonist, a 19th-century French diplomat, guides the audience through a lost, sumptuous dream that was the Enlightenment period. The film, staged among some of the Western Art tradition's greatest masterpieces, climaxes in a pageant of color, motion, and music... (imdb)

An unemployed musical teacher with friends find a window to Paris right from an apparment in the heart of Leningrad. What the gateway offers for Russians, what for Parisians? (muutanet)

Kind and lazy Jenya comes to Moscow from small village in Belarus for earnings but a criminal incident unexpectedly separates Jenya from his companions and leaves him alone without money or documents. He has no friends or relatives in this big and hostile city and he is about to become a homeless bum when suddenly a miracle happens. A strange old man brings Jenya to his flat and lets him stay and invites him to join a fight he is engaged in against evil that spoils life in Moscow. (imdb)

Making of Russian Ark (2002), with on camera personal views by members of the cast and crew of the major film. (imdb)

Set in the 16th century, this is a story about Ukraine's Cossack warriors and their campaign to defend their lands from the advancing Polish armies. Based on Nikolai Gogol's novel of the same name. (imdb)

Leningrade. Galina works as a restorer at Catherine Palace; she is a sculptor as well and takes her profession very seriously and enthusiastically. Vera, a friend from art school, sees her loneliness and introduces her to her husband's colleagues – friendly Mitya and mysterious Andrey. Soon Galina finds herself torn between the two men. (Letterboxd)

Moscow. A typical Russian family. They decide to take home Maya's father: an aborigine who lives in the desert and has never seen any modern comfort, neither speaks the language. Once living in their apartment, the old man begins to act in a strange way, adoring the refrigerator and the pipelines as if they were gods. (imdb)

Leningrad, World War II. An Olga is walking through the whole city to her father. She has just buried her husband and is sure she is going to die soon out of hunger. Olga wants to see her father one last time to say goodbye. (imdb)

Lado, a Georgian smuggler, transports antiques to St. Petersburg, where he meets Medea, an immigrant at an antique workshop. Vadim, a lonely elderly man, bonds with Medea. Their lives intersect amidst smuggling, survival, and connection. (imdb)