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- During the WWll, Nikolai Kiselyov faces an unthinkable task: he must withdraw more than 200 people doomed to death in captivity from the Belarusian village of Dolginovo occupied by the Nazis behind the front line. Will he be able to save the elderly, women, and children - exhausted, frightened, who have lost loved ones and faith in salvation - from the imminent brutal massacre? Jewish refugees, accompanied by Kiselyov and several partisans from the 'Avenger' detachment, will have to walk fifteen hundred kilometers, and this path will be the most dangerous test in their lives.
- At work, Astrid is admired by her fans as a famous cabaret artist and privately a second child is on road to complete her family happiness.
- 1942, a photojournalist comes from Moscow to the southwestern front to capture a unique record for history - the 600th fascist killed by one person - sniper Nikolay Slepkov. The hero himself, a gloomy and silent recluse, avoids the hype. But others talk about him.
- Focused on the world of wealthy Qatari sheikhs with a passion for amateur falconry, 'The Challenge' combines cinematic beauty with rare access and trailblazing form. Here, the opulence of Qatar is on full display, as the men race SUVs up and down sand dunes, fly their prized falcons around on private jets, and take their pet cheetah out for desert spins in their souped-up Lamborghini.
- Former Soviet defector-scientist decides to return to his homeland and in exchange for the Government pardon proposes to give up secret "Orbit 12" material. The scientist also has data that will identify a traitor in the Russian special services. Meanwhile, a hired killer arrives to Russia from Europe, and systematically eliminates all those in connection to "Orbit 12". Sergachev forms a special unit to get to the bottom of this old secret, but if he doesn't act fast, the operation will fail, and the one person who possesses answers might falls into the hands of foreign intelligence, or worse yet, the hired killer.
- As her son reaches young adulthood, a new chapter begins in the life of Tatyana. Will her secret finally be revealed?
- Vadim is an ordinary office worker with no prospects, desperate to somehow change his boring life. One afternoon, while pondering his life in a pub, a mysterious bartender offers Vadik a cocktail. Upon drinking this cocktail, Vadik's world is instantly transformed beyond recognition. He is now successful, attractive and interesting. However, Vadik needs to learn how to sustain this new mirage, once the cocktails run out.
- A group of radicalised activists kidnap the UK's Secretary of State for the Environment. As tensions rise, the power dynamics within the group start getting in the way of their masterplan.
- The Soviet Army, taken by surprise in this imaginary scenario by an attack, immediately routs the invaders and then crosses the border into the enemy territory in hot pursuit, culminating in a military apotheosis.
- Izabele, is a modern, intellectual woman, living with her husband Liudas in a homestead near a big city. They are raising a son, Gailius, who has a case of epilepsy and is smarter than most children his age. Izabele decides to adopt Ilja - the meanest and most secretive boy in the foster home.
- After perestroika in the Soviet Union there is a total collapse of the Soviet system, which leads to chaos in the country. The protagonist of the film, a foreign student, after graduation does not want to return to his country because of the military coup that took place there. But the Soviet government gave clear deadlines for him to leave the country. At the end of the deadline, law enforcement agencies take the student to the airport. Having escaped from registration, he manages to return to Moscow, where he continues to live in an abandoned house. All these events came from the pen of the writer of the novel, who lives the life of his hero.
- An ironic love story between an insightful female detective, Savelyeva, and an ingenious swindler Kostrov. They were forced to separate 15 years ago, and now fate has reunited them to rediscover each other amidst a fine line between law and crime.
- A wise and forgiving communist leader decides to send a young worker, Karl Renn, as an international delegate to the Soviet Union after the worker had deserted a picket-line and had expressed doubts about the methods of class struggle in in his own country.
- Marina and Dima have a similar problem in the rejection of their lovers by parents. So they try to pretend to be a couple and play the worst bride and groom in the world in front of their parents for solving the problem.
- Contemporary Russia. After the suspicious death of successful businessman Sergey Norskiy, his widow, Valeriya, and an insurance investigator, Feliks, team up to solve the mystery.
- About the collective farmers of the Volga region, who created the first fishing women's brigade. At the head is Varvara - a quiet and gentle woman suffering from the betrayal of her husband Stepan. In summing up, her team is ahead of the men. And this makes Stepan look at his wife with different eyes.
- -March 12, 2020. COVID-19 has just been declared a global pandemic, confinement measures are being implemented all across the world. Fanny, Samuel, Marianne and Daniel, four Montrealers (in Canada), from very different backgrounds, must now adapt to this new reality. What they believe to be a temporary situation will turn into a long ordeal that will change their lives forever. Between reality and fiction, Première vague is a portrait of the first 100 days of the pandemic in the city of Montreal, Canada.
- The beginning of 1919. A serious threat loomed over Astrakhan: British air strikes from the air, an intervention flotilla approaching by sea, White generals Kolchak and Denikin besiege the city from land. At the direction of the new head of the city's defense, a group of communists secretly sneaks into Baku captured by the British, purchases fuel under the guise as oil dealers and successfully delivers it to Astrakhan. Red Army planes soar into the air - and the defending troops go on the offensive.
- About the struggle of Soviet people against spies and saboteurs. - At the construction of a new power plant, a former White Guard, Poloz, appears on the site under the guise of a hunter. His goal is to blow up the power plant. And he will not stop at stealing the little son of his ex-wife Katya .
- Mister Ricky lives in the basement of a woman he calls "Grammy," who may or may not be poisoning him, thereby creating delusional yearnings within Ricky to channel the spirit of the long-departed "Gramps."
- The film continues the story of the military exploits of the cook-soldier Antosha Rybkin, the hero of "Combat Movie Collection N3". Antosha replaces a missing actor of the front-line brigade of artists and quite successfully plays the role of German corporal. But the alarm sounds. Using his costume, the resourceful hero penetrates the rear of the enemy and causes panic among the Nazis. The enemy takes flight, and Antosha returns to his direct duties as a cook.
- The rich man Bubnila, who in every way knocks out taxes from the townspeople, discovers in the laboratory of his debtor - Art, a professor of all kinds of sciences, a mechanical toy - a boy with transparent blue eyes. He decides that he can make a fortune on this invention. But soon the rich man has a competitor - the insidious doctor Capa, who orders his bandits to find and kidnap the robot. The doctor dreams of finding out the principle by which this robot is assembled, and creating a thousand of exactly the same boys. He will no longer need henchmen, as one robot will replace ten gangsters.
- The violinist Leva Ratkovich loved the poor girl Rachel, but her father did not allow her to marry a "beggar". Making sure that in tsarist Russia he could not achieve recognition, Leva decided to emigrate. After wandering, he falls into the hands of an impressionario, who made him a celebrity. On tour, Leva met his Rachel, who was also forced to emigrate. The Wandering Stars finally meet.
- Provincial town near Moscow. Several families live here in a large communal apartment. Each has its own worries, its own interests, its own troubles and joys. A communal apartment is not just a habitat. This is a kind of section of society. All of them are very different, members of this «communal hostel»: the intelligent Vera and the petty bourgeois Larisa, the elderly pensioners who are living out their lives, and the disabled Lira, who dreams of a happy life in distant Australia, the soulless clerk Bozhok and the young researcher Viktor, who is forced to earn extra money by tutoring . However, their destinies are inextricably linked with the events and complex conflicts taking place in the country, with a sense of instability, fear, anxious expectation: something must happen.
- The screen adaptation of the novel "Abai" by Mukhtar Auezov recreates the story of prominent Kazakh poet and philosopher Abay Kunanbayev. The famous Kazakh poet became friends with the Russian exile, scientist Nifont Dolgopolov. Under the influence of their growing friendship, Abai formed some of his academic ideas and principles.
- From the life of one of the leading Kuban horse breeding collective farms. Veterinarian Mitrich, a disguised enemy who follows all the instructions of Yesaul Soroka (Ivan Ryzhov), sets about the main task - to destroy the entire collective farm herd. But the criminals will be detained on time, and in the autumn the collective farm will see off young Cossacks to the Red Army.
- "Busch singt" consists of 6 films "About the first part of our century" and does not present Ernst Busch only as a singer but is a film with and about Busch as a chronicler and fighter for communist ideals of his time. Konrad Wolf died during the production, he directed part 3 "1935 oder Das Faß der Pandora" and part 5 "Ein Toter auf Urlaub"
- Kusakabe Eiji was once part of the Crime Division but was forced to move to another department after getting injured. One day, a lady visits the department and asks for help to find her missing fiancé. At the same time, a strangled body was found which belonged to Yamagishi Ryohei, the representative of a major IT company.
- Brave and hyperactive Archie Goodwin carries out the most dangerous tasks at the risk of his life, collecting information for the conclusions and brilliant verdicts of his boss. Well, the intellectual Nero Wolf, without leaving his mansion, solves any, even the most complicated crimes.
- The best bell-ringer of the church Fedor Kuzmich Shtukov becomes the foreman of production at the shipyard. Communists and Komsomol members are trying to persuade Fedor to forget about the church, but in vain. Daughter Anna laughs in the face of her father - and in vain too. But when the plant desperately needed a scarce metal, Shtukov, painfully thinking about his native plant, supported the proposal of one of the workers to cast the billet from the church bell, and the vessel was ready for launch on time.
- The case that major Golovko is leading is the robbery of a savings bank. He, of course, will find the criminals, because Golovko has the most modern forensic tools in his arsenal and colleagues as dexterous as himself. And as the investigation progresses, Golovko will help choose the right path for a man who has stumbled - the kind, hard-working driver Seva Grinevich.
- The heroine of the film, Mrs. Gurmyzhskaya, is a former beauty who is living out her years in a remote province. A friend's son, a low-school student, comes to her estate, and the hostess, for the sake of boredom, decides to have an affair with him - He willingly responds to the rich aunt with 'reciprocity.'
- The story of four institutionalized girls, staging Cinderella and the Prince. Interviews of the girls priorities in life.
- Soviet provincial town on the western border. The air forces of a neighboring state attack the USSR, bombing the town. Soviet aviation is tasked with attacking enemy aircraft at its airfields. Overcoming the enemy's air barrage, three Soviet squadrons are sent to the enemy country: one to its capital, the other two to military-industrial centers. One of our bombers discovers the underground hangars of the enemy. However, the supply of bombs is running out. The commander orders the crew to parachute, and he continues to steer the plane into the opening of the last surviving hangar. Using the success of aviation, Soviet ground forces break through the enemy's front. The enemy is retreating.
- Mid 1930s On a small Pacific island at the entrance to Zolotaya Bay, there is a garrison of the NKVD border guard. The son of the lighthouse keeper Fyodor Burov arrives on the island with a spy mission. One morning, he sets fire to the lighthouse and takes a boat to the sea. The Chekist border boat team is given the task of meeting uninvited guests disguised as a fishing boat. A schooner with Japanese saboteurs is captured, and the Chekist leads her away. On board the schooner, Fyodor Burov gets discovered and detained. Meanwhile, a Japanese warship is landing on the island. A small detachment, commanded by senior lieutenant Nazarov, manages to restrain the onslaught of the enemy before the appearance of border guards and bomber planes.
- The investigator of the Moscow IC Sergey Kovalev investigates the murder of Colonel Evseev and his family, hiding the fact that Evseev is his half-brother. Meanwhile, there are new murders with a similar handwriting. During the investigation, one of the murder weapons is found at the scene of another crime. The fingerprint on the knife is identical to the fingerprint left at the scene of Evseev's murder. This fact becomes a key turn in the investigation.
- The Soviet Far East and Manzhou-Go are separated by a border river, on one side of which the Russian White Guards settled in a small Manchurian village, and the Vlasov family lives on the opposite bank. Wishing to destroy the Vlasovs, the White Guards penetrate their house. A group of fighters comes to the aid, led by the commandant of the border section, Captain Tarasov. A long, grueling battle begins.
- The price of oil has tanked, and the announcement of layoffs at an isolated field office deteriorate morale with humorous, and heartbreaking, results.
- The events take place at the beginning of the last century, when the revolution had already occurred in Russia, and in bourgeois Latvia it was just beginning. The members of the simple peasant family of the Zithars had a difficult choice: to go with the revolutionaries or to come to terms with the orders of the bourgeois republic.
- On the elimination of child homelessness in the years of NEP. In a small port city in the basement Vasya and Ganusya live with a drunken father. After the father's death in a drunken brawl, Ganusa finds himself in a children's colony, and Vasya adjoins the port street children.
- The Human Space war against the Outsiders was set to destroy both races and this region of the galaxy along with them... and us. Higher order beings intervene against this. The Gardeners will erase one race to restore the balance, but which one? A solution is found. A champion is elected from each fleet and a contest to death set between them. There is no time limit, food or water. Their champion is a fully armed cyborg. Our champion is a weaponless, pregnant woman.
- On the exposure of the Ismaili religious sect, led by Prince Aga Khan ("the living god"), who was received at the court of the English king and helped the English colonists to strengthen their power in Tajikistan. The action takes place in 1916-1926.
- In search of truth and the opportunity to punish the director-bureaucrat who's work collapsed the once prosperous Far East fur farm, the best worker on the farm, Katya Ivanova arrives in Moscow. On the way to the railway station, Katya catches and surrenders a spy to border guards. On the train, the girl gets acquainted with the handsome navy sailor Sergei Berezkin, who offers her to go to Moscow and contact the Complaints Bureau there (this is such an instance where you can complain about anyone). In Moscow, Katya, while her complaint is being considered, works in one organization, then in another, and everywhere she agitate to girls to go to the Far East.
- Kavaleridze's silent revolutionary epic Perekop depicts the Perekop-Chongar operation (1920) during the Russian Civil War, in which the Red Army, led by Nestor Makhno's troops, defeated Wrangel, took Crimea, and, according to the axiom of Soviet historiography, ended the civil war. However, according to Kavaleridze, he is not only talking about this: "my film is dedicated to the three Perekop - the military, the destruction of the kulak and the implementation of the five-year plan."
- About the events of the summer of 1940, when units of the Soviet Red Army entered Riga. On the visit of the Latvian delegation to the meeting of the 7th session of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR in Moscow. On the proclamation on July 21 by the People's Seimas of Latvia as a Soviet Republic (Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic) and the admission of Latvia to the Soviet Union on August 5, 1940.
- Galina, the daughter of the manager of the city branch of the State Bank Roman Stepanovich Kruchi, and brought up by him alone from the age of three, is marrying the furniture factory director Andrei Tur. It turns out that Andrey, having received a bank loan for the plant, cannot return it on time, since the plant produced defective products that were not accepted by the customer. Andrey is removed from work and together with Galina he leaves for a new place of work.
- The hero of the Asian epic, Nasreddin, was distinguished from childhood by his sharp mind and extraordinary resourcefulness. To feed the poor gypsy's cat, he arranged a whole attraction. He began to show the cat for money at the market, assuring the audience that this was an extraordinary animal. Each deceived person tried to pretend that he was smarter than he seemed and began to help Nasreddin lure the simpletons. Trouble happened when the emir himself came to look at the amazing animal, dressed in simple clothes. The ruler wanted to touch the cat, and it scratched his face. In anger, the emir ordered the execution of the criminal. Now a serious threat hangs over the cat, and over Nasreddin himself. But Nasreddin copes with even the greatest danger jokingly.
- The daughter of a kulak, Aina, after graduating from university, returns to her native land. The young teacher finds herself in an atmosphere of class struggle for collectivization. The situation is complicated by her father, who became one of the leaders of the village council.
- Jake is a New York club DJ who has become disillusioned by his lack of success. The sudden, unexplained death of his roommate leaves him questioning his own existence. Adrift and disillusioned, he meets a young free-spirit named Kelly. Take Me With You studies their relationship as it leads up to a global, extraterrestrial event. Faced with extinction, Jake is left to make a nearly impossible decision.
- Comic misunderstandings related to the suspicion of the American authorities. The baggage of a Soviet engineer on a business trip to the USA says "Khimugol" (the name of the trust where he serves). There are oranges in the box, and the authorities decides that there is a new explosive. In parallel, the theme of the engineer's hobby is developing not just as an American, but as a movie star.