Yana Sekste
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Birthday: April 06, 1980
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Forty-First. Opus Posth
2012-09-01
Forty-First. Opus Posth
Overview: The love story of a Red Army girl and a captured White Guard lieutenant who survive on a desert island in the middle of the Aral Sea.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2012-09-01
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The Master and Margarita
2024-01-25
The Master and Margarita
Overview: Moscow, 1930s. A prominent writer's works are suddenly censored by the Soviet state and the premiere of his theatrical play about Pontius Pilate is canceled. He's kicked out of the Soviet Writer's Union, and quickly turns into an outcast with no means to survive. Inspired by Margarita - his lover, he begins working on a new novel in which all the characters are satirically reinterpreted from his life. The novel's central character is Woland - a mystical dark force who visits Moscow to revenge all those who caused the writer's downfall. As the Master sinks himself deeper and deeper into his novel, adding himself and Margarita as characters, he gradually stops noticing as the border between reality and his imagination fades away.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2024-01-25
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Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari
2012-11-11
Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2012-11-11
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Peek-a-boo
2021-12-10
Peek-a-boo
Overview: Teenager Zhora lives with her grandmother and only occasionally sees her parents. The fact is that he is autistic, and his parents are very busy people. Zhorik's mother, Kira, is passionate about her success as a plastic surgeon. Father - Yasha - real estate sales. However, they are not so busy that they do not take a friend to the holy springs to establish love karma. Will the holy water help reunite their family as well?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-12-10
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Phonograph
2016-05-06
Phonograph
Overview: Yuli Ivanovich Blok is a music lover and enthusiast of early sound recording, who in 1889 was the first to bring Edison's phonograph to Russia, came up with the idea to record the great pianist Anton Rubinstein's playing on a phonograph. But the pianist flatly refused to sign up. Then those present, among whom was Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, just started messing around with the device, recording everything that comes to mind. The film is based on a famous case that occurred in January 1890.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2016-05-06
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Who's There?
2022-09-15
Who's There?
Overview: A knock on your door sets in motion the feeling of anxiety. Should you open? Who, or what, will you encounter if you do? The characters of this continuous-shot anthology film – a billionaire, a commercial pilot, a trainee police officer, and a young single mother – find themselves in critical situations, facing the unknown. To make the right choice they must look deep within themselves, and recognize the true source of their fears.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2022-09-15
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Sky Court
2012-05-31
Sky Court
Overview: Lawyers Andrew and Benjamin are friends who share a lot, but their work puts them on opposite sides. Their trials do not occur in this life but in the afterlife. They are members of the Sky Court deciding where a human soul should go after death- Heaven or Hell. Unexpectedly in one case personal interests of Andrew interfere: the man who made the proposal to his widow is on trial.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2012-05-31
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Living
2012-08-30
Living
Overview: In the second feature film by Russian director Vasily Sigarev, fate brings ordeals to characters that find themselves immersed in deep crisis; they must seek the strength to cope with adversity. In a remote and cold region of Russia, Galya, a middle-aged woman with a drinking problem, has been separated from her twin daughters and she wants them back. On the other hand, Grishka and Anton are a young couple who decide to get married, but right after the wedding their relationship is put to the test in a brutal way. While Artyom longs to see his missing father, but his mother objects. There is only one element that brings all of these characters together: misfortune.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2012-08-30
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The Wizard of the Emerald City, Part 1
2025-01-01
The Wizard of the Emerald City, Part 1
Overview: Ellie lives in a distant city. One day, the evil witch Gingema conjured a hurricane that took Ellie and her dog Totoshka to the country of the Munchkins. To return home, Ellie and her friends the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion will set off along the yellow brick road to the Emerald City in search of the Wizard who will grant their cherished wishes. The first part of a two-part film.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2025-01-01
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Core of the World
2018-09-27
Core of the World
Overview: Egor is a vet at a training facility for hunting dogs in a remote region of the country. Surrounded by foxes, deer, badgers, and dogs, he lives in a small building next to the house of the facility's master. He treats the dogs, cleans the kennels, oversees the workers, and meets with clients and their dogs. It's easier for him to get along with dogs than with people. Egor is willing to take on any job to get closer to the facility's master and his near and dear. He wants the impossible - to become a member of that family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2018-09-27
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Four Women
2013-10-02
Four Women
Overview: Four women, dividing their world into real and fictional, living only with feelings, constantly craving their own self-realization.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2013-10-02
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The Wonderland
2016-01-01
The Wonderland
Overview: The main characters of the film are residents of different places of this country, most common people, with whom most uncommon things, pure wonders, happen. Semyon and Lyuba, a family of fireguards, have a chance to fulfill a dream – to go to Moscow to take part in their favorite TV show “Field of Miracles” (“Pole Chudes”), where they should make a life choice “trophy or money?” An inexperienced officer of Patrol-Guard Service and at the same time an experienced loser Sanya will have to not only survive his first day of service but also to accept his wife’s labors and to reanimate his partner. Four newly acquainted fellows must by any means fly to Moscow in non-flying weather, and a couple of young lovers must reconcile their irreconcilable parents by some mysterious way. Valera has to decide on a dilemma: to save mankind from the Deluge or just to fly with his karaoke-alien-friends in their old UFO? All these things can happen only once a year – on December, 31!
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2016-01-01
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Petersburg: Selfie
2016-09-22
Petersburg: Selfie
Overview: Petersburg. A Selfie comprises seven novellas about the beautiful city of St. Petersburg, Russia, shot by female directors. The film tells a story of a real, living and breathing city, rather than a mythical phantasm. Each novella tells its own story about love and loneliness, luck and hope.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2016-09-22
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The Bolshoi
2016-12-21
The Bolshoi
Overview: Young and extremely talented dancer Yulya Olshanskaya from a small mining town draws a “happy ticket”: she is noticed by a former ballet dancer Pototsky and he promises her a future of great ballerina, worthy of the main stage of the country. However, in order to become a diamond, anyone, even the most outstanding brilliant, needs to be cut, and the way to the legendary stage of The Bolshoi Theatre for Yulya lies through the walls of the ballet school, where the more capricious teacher Galina Mikhailovna Beletskaya takes custody of the rebellious provincial. Turning into a prima will require incredible self-denial, and Yulya herself will have to make sure that the big ballet is not only the whiteness of the packs, the gold of the boxes and the slip of silk ribbons. But no obstacles will stop the one who has the big dream.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2016-12-21
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Kurchatov
2020-09-18
Kurchatov
Overview: USSR. Cold War. Early 1960s. In a secret research institute where Kurchatov (a famous scientist, the father of the Soviet atomic bomb) works, radiation counters stop registering the background radiation. First one meter fails, then another, until absolutely everything in the whole building fails. Kurchatov begins to suspect that this is a conspiracy of Western spies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2020-09-18
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The Hunt
2009-09-10
The Hunt
Overview: After the lives of several people are tied into a intriguing knot upon meeting police officer Krasts one hot summer day, they’re all brought together again on a full moon winter night. Intrigue develops among a couple of lovers, Gints and Elga, three adventure-race participants with one woman, Renate, on their team, three generations of a family whose father, Karlis, died in a tragic hunting accident, Karlis’s daughter Aija, his former lover Livija, and a young girl hardened by life, who lives at a Christian home for expectant mothers. A detective twist is added by a bit of poison, which one of them will get.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 2009-09-10
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Joseph's Dreams
2016-09-22
Joseph's Dreams
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2016-09-22
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В списках не значился
2025-05-01
В списках не значился
Overview: June 21, 1941. Young lieutenant Kolya Pluzhnikov, having received an appointment to a permanent place of service, arrives in Brest. The crowded waiting rooms of the station and the crowd of people weighed down with luggage do not alarm the young man, filled with joyful hopes. Kolya hurries to the location of his unit - the Brest Fortress... The soldier does not have time to enlist in the personnel of the military, and at four in the morning artillery explosions are heard - the war has begun. He was not enlisted in the ranks of the military personnel of the Brest Fortress, but still took part in the first battle in his life, which lasted ten months.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2025-05-01
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