Valentin Samokhin
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Birthday: July 29, 1973
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In Your Head
2021-09-18
In Your Head
Overview: Ironic reflection about the power of our thoughts, of temptation and its overcoming. In secrecy from his girlfriend, a young man goes to a city beach with its seductive female visitors to take pleasure in the sun. Unexpectedly he learns that his dreams and imagination are all too obvious: the husband of one of the women accuses him of adultery. The hero, caught unawares and discouraged, manages to pay off the man. But it appears not only the jealous husband has seen the hero’s thoughts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2021-09-18
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Crimean Bridge. Made With Love!
2018-11-01
Crimean Bridge. Made With Love!
Overview: A hot summer and a gentle sea. Crimean Bridge (Crimea) is being built in Kerch. Dima, a young and daring builder, has a hobby: from every change of female students-archeologists choose the most beautiful and win it. And this time would have happened the same, if not for Moscow PR man. He brought to the construction of television crews from America, and, of course, it is he, a luxurious careerist on a white convertible that will win the Varya's heart. While the two contenders charm her, the hot Caucasian Bernard Is trying to realize his dream to marry an American and go to Hollywood.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2018-11-01
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Danube
2021-10-21
Danube
Overview: The introvert Russian girl Nadia goes on holiday to Belgrade, inhabited by extrovert Serbians. She lives according to a plan, while the Belgraders live for joy. At first, Nadia is involved with the local guy Nesha, and then with his relaxed, semi-vagrant way of life. She takes the impulsive decision to give up her dull job and Moscow for the sake of love, freedom and Belgrade. Both this love, and this freedom must undergo the test of reality, which is always more difficult than our expectations.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2021-10-21
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Billion
2019-04-18
Billion
Overview: An influential banker is doing everything possible not to share the property with his illegitimate sons. But when he is deprived of all the money, it turns out that only they can help Matthew ... To regain his fortune, the billionaire will be forced to rob his own bank in Monte Carlo. And for this, he will have to perform an even more difficult task: regain the trust of children who grew up without a father ...
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2019-04-18
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Fidelity
2019-10-31
Fidelity
Overview: Lena is a talented midwife and gynaecologist, her husband Serezha is an actor at a provincial drama theatre. They are close and gentle with each other, but there is no sex. Lena suspects that Serezha has an affair, but she worries quietly and does not reveal her jealousy. Instead of sorting out her relationship with her husband, Lena starts to betray him with chance acquaintances. Gradually Lena’s parallel life gets out of control and changes her original life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2019-10-31
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Dovlatov
2018-02-27
Dovlatov
Overview: Dovlatov charts six days in the life of a brilliant, ironic writer who saw far beyond the rigid limits of 70s Soviet Russia. Sergei Dovlatov fought to preserve his own talent and decency with poet and writer Joseph Brodsky, while watching his artist friends got crushed by the iron-willed state machinery.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2018-02-27
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Encounters
2023-12-31
Encounters
Overview: Life on Earth has changed after the visit of alien ships hovering in various parts of the planet. Their passengers — biopages or "Vitaliki", as they are popularly called — produce a substance called "prak". Its purpose, as well as the purpose of the aliens' visit, is unknown, but nurse Nina (Irina Salikova) from a quiet provincial town hopes to help her sick father with the help of prak. After contacting Vitalik, Nina learns the truth about extraterrestrial beings, which completely changes her life.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2023-12-31
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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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Liar
2024-09-05
Liar
Overview: The life of 17-year-old Eva is boring and uninteresting, she feels invisible. But everything changes when she accuses a famous singer in the past of sexual harassment and turns into a national heroine — "a girl who was not afraid to tell the truth."
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2024-09-05
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Extraordinary
2024-03-28
Extraordinary
Overview: Eight-year-old Nikolai suffers from a congenital illness that leaves him unable to walk or speak. His doctors and even his own mother, Tatyana, have given up hope of treating his ailment. When Tatyana’s new friend Yuri tries using his own physiotherapy techniques to treat Nikolai, he discovers that Nikolai has a gift for music and teaches him to play the piano. With every note he learns and every melody he masters, Nikolai’s condition improves. He not only gains mobility, he also becomes an outstanding musician. Nikolai and Yuri travel to China together to take part in a piano competition, with a view to taking the grand prize. This is a humor-packed story about the healing power of music and fatherly love.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2024-03-28
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Невидимый мой
2023-10-06
Невидимый мой
Overview: Single mother Maria lives with her son and daughter in a science city, which is being prepared for liquidation. She believes that her physicist husband, who disappeared six years ago during a scientific experiment, is somewhere nearby — just in another dimension. A former colleague of her husband arrives in the city in search of the missing person's records, and Maria has a boyfriend-trucker Stas, ready to take her away with her children and start a new life together. Faced with a choice, a woman can not decide to leave her invisible husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2023-10-06
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Pagans
2017-11-08
Pagans
Overview: The drama based on hidden implicit faith in miracle unfolds between the members of the family with an unhappy love story of a desolate teenage girl who tries to withstand this family madness after their devotee grandmother came to their flat from upcountry.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2017-11-08
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Ice Hole
2017-09-28
Ice Hole
Overview: All day long the TV shows an ice-hole. Ice-holes are the theme of the day, a winter tradition that unites believers and sportsmen, stars and walruses, the president and the unemployed. In the centre of the news reports are the topics of Baptism, fishing and the criminal chronicle. The president and a pike, the artist and the crit- ics, the oligarch and the law enforcement team – they all meet at an ice- hole in search of solutions for their problems. The jobless Muscovite, with bad habits, dives down an ice-hole for a wife, just like Sadko. The fairy- tale plots intertwine with documentary context, and it is no longer clear where reality ends. Remember Nietzsche: if you long gaze into the abyss, the abyss will also gaze into you.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2017-09-28
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For All I Died
2017-08-09
For All I Died
Overview: The main character is a young girl Nastya who studies in one of the Moscow universities and lives in a usual dormitory. She is not happy with herself and her life. One night , Nastya finds a mysterious website «No man- no problem» and orders her death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2017-08-09
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Ambivalence
2019-03-21
Ambivalence
Overview: Two friends, young psychiatrists, perceive life in different ways. One wants to do the right thing. The second is to experiment. One is a diligent student. The second is the troublemaker. One loves, hating. The second hates, loving. It's a pity that they have only one passion - Katerina Sergeevna. For one, she is Mom, Dad's wife. For another - a lover.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2019-03-21
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The End
2021-05-20
The End
Overview: Director Mitya escapes from the set of the next television series. In this he is helped by the ghost of Marcello Mastroianni. The decision to escape launches a chain of events with the participation of Mitya's family and friends, which can only be unraveled by the answer to the question of what kind of director he wants to be: great, talented, or just normal.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2021-05-20
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Prefect
2018-11-05
Prefect
Overview: The story of a hipster who has reached power, who has become the prefect of the fictional metropolitan area of Vostochnoe Medvedkovo. Finally, talking about tile, cycle paths and the rescue of old estates can be supported by real deeds! Or not?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2018-11-05
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100 Minutes
2021-09-23
100 Minutes
Overview: 100 Minutes is the tale of thousands of Soviet soldiers who fought the Nazis and whose only ‘crime’ was to get caught. Stalin’s justice meted out on the prisoners who returned home was swift: ten years of forced labour in the Siberian camps. Why then would prisoners like Ivan Denisovich fight to stay alive to face another day of hell?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2021-09-23
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Fedor's Journey Through Moscow at the Turn of the XXI Century
2015-06-08
Fedor's Journey Through Moscow at the Turn of the XXI Century
Overview: A long time ago, Prometheus was cursed by the God's for bringing fire to mankind. Today, Fedor finds himself in Moscow for the first time and falls in love with Masha.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2015-06-08
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New Russians 2
2015-09-17
New Russians 2
Overview: An anthology of five stories that can literally happen to anyone.
Genres: Drama Comedy Thriller Science Fiction Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2015-09-17
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Leo & Hurricane
2017-12-09
Leo & Hurricane
Overview: A monotonous and predictable life of a supermarket backdoor guard is forever changed after an eccentric drag queen, named Hurricane Rita, with her daring escapades turns the guard's night shift routine into a night of exciting adventures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2017-12-09
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Russian Shorts. Vol. 1
2018-11-26
Russian Shorts. Vol. 1
Overview: Five unusual short stories. Two heroes are fighting for the heart of a mysterious beauty in the tragicomedy Olesya. In the parable "Milk" in the high-rise kitchen a real cow appears. The heroine of the comedy without the “Not Fit” dialogues is torn between the desire to lose weight by the alumni meeting and the modern food cult. The eccentric Rita Hurricane rushes into the life of the security guard of the Leo shopping center and changes it forever. And the hero of the story "Carpe diem" solves an important question - to lie or not to lie, when everyone around is lying.
Genres: Drama Comedy Thriller
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2018-11-26
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High Above
2019-06-27
High Above
Overview: Eighteen-year-old Vasya Tikhonova is travelling with her parents to a medical resort near Moscow, seeking treatment. She has a congenital heart defect, and her mother has always been overprotective. But when the Tikhonov family arrives, a murder is committed at the resort. And within seven days, Vasya’s life will change dramatically. She will meet her first love, she will take a big risk fighting for it, and she will make a discovery that is scary, but grants her freedom.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2019-06-27
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Splendore
2020-09-14
Splendore
Overview: USSR, 1979. A guy meets a girl at a party. The girl is a hairdresser, the guy helps his father at a meat-processing plant. Soon a son is born and the couple become a family. The beginning of 2004. The boy has grown into a lyric poet but, nevertheless, follows the father’s footsteps and works at the meat-processing plant. A reflection on happiness gets him into a dead end, from which, apparently, there is no way out. But here in his life enters the accountant Liubov, or Love, and there comes the time of the wedding…
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2020-09-14
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Lead Anna
2020-10-04
Lead Anna
Overview: The 60-s of the past century. A school cleaning lady, who dreams of being a ballet dancer, miraculously learns to perform the most complicated jumps. The one who helped her was a strange teacher who taught music and dancing at that very school. The outcome of their relationship was more than unexpected.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2020-10-04
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Another Year
2014-01-15
Another Year
Overview: He's an unemployed guy who earns some money by giving lifts to strangers. She's a graphic designer who just got her first job. The film tracks their relationship - and the way it gradually melts away - throughout a year. A subtle, moving portrait of an immature love that breaks down easily.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2014-01-15
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Six Twenty Eight
2018-06-03
Six Twenty Eight
Overview: The 18-year-old Sasha is in love with her dorm neighbour and passionately hates the latter’s boyfriend, Egor, who illegally lives in their room. More than anything Sasha wants to get rid of Egor — at any cost. She doesn’t know yet that sometimes a dream coming true is the worst that can happen.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2018-06-03
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Love of the Soviet Union
2024-11-07
Love of the Soviet Union
Overview: The film is about a generation of brave and beautiful people who did not see the destruction of the revolution and the chaos of the civil war, who dreamed of building a new life in which there would be no place for death, but only incredible love that opens the way for them to great achievements and discoveries. About exploits and glory, betrayal and loyalty of those who were heroes in heaven and on earth. About the time of immense trials that fell on their short but bright lives. About a woman who was the dream and true love of the Soviet Union.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2024-11-07
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