Vladimir Ilin

Richard Harris stars as a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new... (imdb)

The film is based on the second book from the Adventures of Erast Petrovich Fandorin series of novels written by the Russian author Boris Akunin. The film takes place in 1877 during the Russian-Turkish war. Erast Fandorin has just escaped from Turkish prison and is trying to get on the Russian side as soon as possible to give important information about the upcoming attack of the enemy.(imdb)

When in 1941 Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, their troops quickly besieged Leningrad. Foreign journalists are sent to Moscow but one of them, Kate Davies, is presumed dead and misses the plane. Alone in the city she is helped by Nina Tsvetnova a young and idealist police officer and together they will fight for their own survival and the survival of the people in the besieged city. (imdb)

Set in a small Ukrainian village during the outbreak of war with Germany in 1941 Private Chonkin, not overly endowed with intelligence, is left to guard a downed military aircraft. The authorities appear to have forgotten about him so this leaves him free to work his chams on the village postmistress, Njura, untill the local militia are tipped off. (imdb)

Taking place in post-war Russia, this film revisits the characters of Mitya (Oleg Menshikov) and Col. Kotov (Nikita Mikhalkov) who were "killed" in the original film.

Simultaneously nihilistic and heartening, Ward No. 6 is based on a story by Chekov, in which a psychiatric doctor becomes a patient in his own asylum. (imdb)

Like its double-entendre title, "Makarov" is a richly layered film that juxtaposes the tradition of image-laden Russian poetry against gritty, crime-infested, post-revolutionary Moscow. Guns have replaced language as the forbidden source of power. Whispers in dark corners and encounters with back-alley thugs create an edgy mood that sets the story on its well-paced spiraling descent. Discomfort factor limits film's international appeal beyond the arthouse circuit. (variety.com)

Great Patriotic War, early 1940s. After barely surviving a battle with a mysterious, ghostly-white Tiger tank, Red Army Sergeant Ivan Naydenov becomes obsessed with its destruction. (imdb)

Russian poet, singer and actor Vladimir Vysotsky was an idol of the 1970s and '80s. In 1980, at the age of 42, he passed away during the Moscow Olympic Games. This is the story of his last great love as handed down to his son from a family friend. (imdb)

A Moscow lawyer fights to save four men accused of sabotage.

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)

The life of a young doctor is intertwined with the fate of Russia at the beginning of the 20th century. (imdb)

The film is set in the 60s of the 20th century, during the Cold War and the space race between USSR and the United States. Russians plan to send a man into space. Military pilot Pavel Belyayev and Alexey Leonov are ready to step into the open space. But on the way they face many obstacles and dangers. (imdb)

Vadik Chernyshov is an impoverished dreamer who spends his life drifting though Moscow with a video camera, hoping to shoot footage that will interest Western press agencies. He falls in love with the beautiful Helen, an English media executive, and subsequently they must contend with the barriers that their different backgrounds present. (imdb)

A political drama about Stalin's prison-camp system in Russia. (imdb)

A Russian soldier who spent ten years in captivity in Afghanistan returns to his home village and shocks all its inhabitants because of his conversion to Islam. During his absence, his father hanged himself, his brother served a prison term and his former fiancée has become a woman of very low morals. The village is the scene of endless drinking while the local boss is selling off the land for dollars to new-rich Russians... (Maywin Media AB)

The heroes of the film are "new Russians" and an old Uzbek, a lucky killer and a popular DJ, a beautiful princess and a mysterious monk, a foreign diplomat and a great poet. (imdb)

Lugansk region, May 2014. The Novozhilov family, by chance, finds itself in the thick of events in Lugansk. Vlad Novozhilov is a former participant in the war in Afghanistan. He knows firsthand what war is. Having seen enough of the horrors of war in his time, in principle he does not even want to touch a weapon. In a situation, he sees only one way out - to leave the country. But you can't run away from the war, the border is already closed. (imdb)

A young officer Grinev enters the service in a remote Belogorskaya fortress. There he meets the daughter of the commandant of the fortress, Masha, as well as the ambitious and narcissistic officer Shvabrin. Seeing Grinev as an opponent in an attempt to win Masha, Shvabrin provokes a duel. At this time, the Pugachev uprising flares up. The Belogorskaya fortress was taken, and Masha's parents were killed. Shvabrin agrees to join Pugachev's service in order to save his life. (imdb)