Movies & TV Shows/Series by Russian Ministry of Culture at a glance

52 movies found (page 1/2):

Captain Volkonogov Escaped(2023)

3.7/5 (with 16 votes)

Captain Fedor Volkonogov works in law enforcement. He is on the good books of the management, and his colleagues respect him. But one day, his life abruptly changes: he is declared a criminal. The Captain manages to run away before he is arrested. Suddenly he turns into an outcast, whom his former colleagues search across the whole city. At night Volkonogov is visited by a messenger from the other world, who warns him that after death he will go hell and be tormented forever. But he has an opportunity to change his fate and get to paradise if he repents, and at least one person forgives him. The Captain embarks on his way to find forgiveness. But he cannot even fathom what tests are awaiting him on this way.

Directed by Natalya Merkulova, Aleksey Chupov - With Yury Borisov, Aleksandr Yatsenko, Timofey Tribuntsev, Victoria Tolstoganova

Russian Ark(2002)

1h 39min | Drama, Fantasy, History, Mystery

3.7/5 (with 192 votes)

A ghost and a French marquis wander through the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, encountering scenes from many different periods of its history.

Directed by Alexander Sokurov - With Alexander Sokurov, Sergey Dreyden, Mikhail Piotrovsky, Mariya Kuznetsova, Leonid Mozgovoy, Alla Osipenko, ...

Betrayal(2012)

1h 55min | Drama

3.3/5 (with 16 votes)

While examining one of her patients, a doctor reveals that her husband is cheating with the patient's wife.

Directed by Kirill Serebrennikov - With Albina Dzhanabaeva, Artūrs Skrastiņš, Franziska Petri, Guna Zariņa, Ivan Fominov

The Riot(2022)

2h | Drama

3.5/5 (with 7 votes)

The film’s plot is based on a true story about a 10-year-old boy from a village, Ilya,whose father is killed. The criminal remains unpunished. Nobody around this situation is particularly worried, except the child, who arranges a real hunt for the murderer.

Directed by Yevgeny Grigoryev

Arrhythmia(2017)

1h 52min | Drama

3.6/5 (with 56 votes)

Oleg is a young gifted paramedic. His wife Katya works as a nurse at the hospital emergency department. She loves Oleg, but is fed up with him caring more about patients than her. She tells him she wants a divorce. The new head of Oleg’s EMA department is a cold-hearted manager who’s got new strict rules to implement. Oleg couldn’t care less about the rules – he’s got lives to save; his attitude gets him in trouble with the new boss. The crisis at work coincides with the personal life crisis. Caught up between their patients, alcohol-fueled off-shifts, and an evolving health care system, Oleg and Katya have to find the binding force that will keep them together.

Directed by Boris Khlebnikov - With Aleksandr Yatsenko, Irina Gorbacheva, Maksim Lagashkin, Anna Ukolova, Aleksandr Samoylenko

The Student(2021)

1h 30min | Drama

2.4/5 (with 3 votes)

During the day, Lera studies humankind and its needs through opinion polls, which are an educational practice at the institute; at night, she dances under the pseudonym Gerda in a club to support herself and her mother. The people she meets are as unfortunate as her family. Her father has recently left for another woman, but he constantly returns home, unable to make his choice and thereby making the life of close people intolerable. The mother painfully endures the breakup and constantly sleeps, ignoring reality. Lera doesn’t know how to carry on, where to go and what to live for, and — most importantly — how to improve life. The adult world, invariable unfortunate, which Lera observes day and night, seems hopeless.

Directed by Kudryashova Natalia Alexandrovna

Hipsters(2008)

2h 10min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.3/5 (with 40 votes)

In this hit Russian musical, a group of friends flaunts Soviet authority in 1950s Moscow by embracing jazz. When Communist Mels falls for Polly, a free-spirited jazz fan, he risks losing his party membership by associating with her rebellious crew.

Directed by Valery Todorovsky - With Anton Shagin, Oksana Akinshina, Eugenia Hirivskaya, Maksim Matveyev, Igor Voynarovskiy, Konstantin Balakirev, ...

Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus(2010)

3h | Drama, War

2.5/5 (with 19 votes)

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Directed by Nikita Mikhalkov - With Oleg Menshikov, Andrei Panin, Artur Smolyaninov, Mikhail Yefremov, Nikita Mikhalkov, Sergei Garmash, ...

Father and Son(2003)

1h 34min | Drama

3.1/5 (with 16 votes)

In this dreamlike film, a nameless father and his son, Aleksei, live together in an apartment in St. Petersburg. Aleksei's mother has died and consequently the two have a very close relationship. When Aleksei acquires a girlfriend, she refuses to take a back seat to his bond with his dad, and breaks up with him. Aleksei is also experiencing nightmares, dreading separation from his father to be a part of the military as his father was.

Directed by Alexander Sokurov - With Andrey Shchetinin, Aleksei Neymyshev, Fyodor Lavrov

Taurus(2001)

1h 34min | Drama

3.1/5 (with 10 votes)

Unfolding over two days in 1924, the film depicts the dying Lenin, world revolutionary and father of the USSR, now powerless and isolated at his Gorki estate. Cared for by his wife, Nadezhda Krupskaia, sister Maniasha, his German doctor and several attendants, Lenin raves about his diminishing faculties, discusses the deaths of great figures (including Marx), rides a car to a picnic in a meadow and ponders his historic legacy.

Directed by Alexander Sokurov - With Leonid Mozgovoy, Mariya Kuznetsova, Lev Yeliseev, Irina Sokolova

The Stroll(2003)

1h 30min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.2/5 (with 15 votes)

Today’s twenty-something Russians are the first generation in the country’s post-communist history to have grown up free. Their twenties are the age of freedom, of fast-changing events and intense emotions. Perhaps only at this age they can live a whole life in one day. A young girl and her two accident companions walk halfway around St.-Petersburg; they flirt and tease each other, and for ninety minutes they act out a real-time romantic drama. This stroll is full of laughter and tears against a backdrop of the hustle and bustle of the streets.

Directed by Alexei Uchitel - With Irina Pegova, Pavel Barshak, Yevgeny Tsyganov, Yevgeni Grishkovetz, Sergei Puskepalis, Yuri Stepanov, ...

The Miracle(2009)

1h 50min | Drama, History, Mystery

3.2/5 (with 3 votes)

The film is based on real events that took place in Samara in 1956 and known as the "Standing Zoe." During the holiday girl, without waiting her betrothed, removes the icon from the wall and Nicholas begins to dance with her, but suddenly freezes in place. This state continues for many months. Residents of the provincial town are frightened by this extraordinary event, which is cluttered with rumors and speculation. To try to understand the situation, there goes metropolitan newspaper journalist ...

Directed by Aleksandr Proshkin - With Konstantin Khabensky, Sergey Makovetsky, Polina Kutepova, Aleksandr Potapov

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Bury Me Behind the Baseboard(2009)

1h 50min | Drama

3.2/5 (with 11 votes)

A small child is trapped in a tug-of-war battle between his frivolous, but loving mother and an emotionally abusive neurotic grandmother, who wants to "shelter" her beloved grandson at all cost.

Directed by Sergey Snezhkin - With Svetlana Kryuchkova, Aleksei Petrenko, Mariya Shukshina, Konstantin Vorobyov, Valery Kukhareshin, ...

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The Danube(2021)

1h 48min | Drama

2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

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.

Directed by Lyubov Mulmenko

Wolfy(2009)

1h 28min | Drama

3.5/5 (with 10 votes)

There are two of them: a mother and a girl. They have no names. And they are in a constant run. The mother runs away from the daughter in an attempt to start new life, and the girl runs after her mother as she has no idea how to live without her. This endless run is full with repeated mistakes and resembles a barrel-organ sorrowful song or a spinning-top rotation. This small ridiculous toy "volchok" was the first toy in the girl's life, the only thing that tied her with the mother.

Directed by Vasily Sigarev - With Yana Troyanova, Veronika Lysakova

Frau(2024)

1h 45min | Drama

Vanya is a salesperson in the Hunter and Fisher shop. Kristina is a ballerina at the Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre. Kristina jokingly calls Vanya a "retro person" for her love of everything old. She herself is a modern person, nostalgia for the romantic past is not characteristic of her. And yet, these two dissimilar people have something in common - the fear of loneliness and the obsession with starting a family.

The Dorm(2021)

2h 3min | Drama

3.4/5 (with 5 votes)

1984, Sverdlovsk, USSR. A shy freshman, an entrepreneur, a poet and two charming it-girls navigate life in a student dorm, sharing their griefs and joys, all for one and one for all. Suddenly a horrible accident blows up the life of the dorm when a female student commits suicide. The dorm is a miniature model of the world that encapsulates the full range of human passions, acts of bravery and cowardice, aspirations for virtue and failures, of love, friendship and betrayal.

Directed by Roman Vasyanov - With Irina Starshenbaum, Yuliya Aug, Nikita Yefremov

The Humorist(2019)

1h 40min | Drama, Comedy

3.1/5 (with 7 votes)

The Humorist is a film about a week in the life of Boris Arkadiev, a fictional Soviet stand-up comedian. Boris is tormented not only by external oppression and censorship but also by his own insecurities that poison all his relationships.

Directed by Michael Idov - With Aleksey Agranovich, Alisa Khazanova, Yuri Kolokolnikov, Yuliya Aug, Polina Aug, Olga Dibtseva, ...

A Russian Youth(2019)

1h 12min | War, Drama

3.2/5 (with 10 votes)

A teenage soldier in World War I—a simple village boy with a naive youthful dream of fame and medals—throws himself into the unknown and goes blind in the first battle, thus taking on a new job: intercepting enemy planes by listening to the air through huge metal funnels.

Directed by Aleksandr Zolotukhin

Hypnosis(2020)

1h 52min | Drama, Thriller

2.4/5 (with 2 votes)

Teenage boy Misha attends hypnosis sessions with psychotherapist Volkov to recover from sleepwalking. As a result, Misha falls under the influence of a hypnologist to such an extent that he ceases to understand where reality is and where illusion is. After the mysterious death of one of Volkov’s patients, Misha decides to conduct an investigation to get to the bottom of the truth. But what if the dream and reality merged into one, and in the end he becomes the main suspect?

Directed by Valery Todorovsky - With Maksim Sukhanov, Ekaterina Fedulova

Brother in Every Inch(2022)

1h 20min | Drama

3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Our days. Two brothers training to be military pilots. They have a strong bond and are always together. The two of them have one dream - to conquer the sky. But their close relationship hampers their training, and the brothers begin to make mistakes in the air. They find themselves facing the choice of continuing to live one life for two or letting each other go. The choice is complicated by the fact that the brothers are twins and it is extremely painful to be apart.

Directed by Aleksandr Zolotukhin

Oxygen(2009)

1h 15min | Thriller, Drama, Romance / Love

3.1/5 (with 10 votes)

Two people play out a story of love and desperation that's enacted through music in this drama from writer and director Ivan Vyrypaev. Sasha (Alexei Filimonov) is a man in his twenties who lives in the small town of Serpukhov and has fallen in love with a woman who is also named Sasha (Karolina Gruszka).

Directed by Ivan Vyrypaev - With Karolina Gruszka

No Looking Back(2022)

1h 38min | Thriller, Action, Comedy, Drama

3.4/5 (with 3 votes)

After four years in prison, Olya decides to start over. And first of all she wants to get her ten-year-old daughter back. However, the overbearing grandma isn't letting her grandchild go without a fight. The family conflict quickly gets out of control and turns into a wild chase. And it definitely won't end well for everyone.

Directed by Kirill Sokolov

The Role(2013)

2h 12min | Drama

3.2/5 (with 4 votes)

The Role is about a brilliant actor in revolutionary Russia who takes on the greatest role of his life - the role of another man. Influenced by the ideas of symbolism and the Silver Age, he decides to slip into the life of his doppelganger – a revolutionary leader in the new Soviet Russia. First intrigued, then obsessed, he flings himself into the role and lives it to the hilt… even when the play of the life he is writing heads towards a tragic finale. Based on true incidents in the lives of Russia’s symbolists, this gripping film explores how far one man will go for the role of a lifetime.

Directed by Konstantin Lopushansky - With Maksim Sukhanov

Two Women(2014)

1h 40min | Romance / Love, Drama

3.6/5 (with 5 votes)

A headstrong young woman is married to land baron. Her feelings for her son's tutor becomes a complex web of unrequited love.

Directed by Vera Glagoleva - With Anna Vartanyan, Ralph Fiennes, Aleksandr Baluev, Sylvie Testud, Anna Levanova, Bernd Moss, ...

Secret Passion(2024)

1h 36min | Comedy

Veta is a student of the acting department of one of the capital's universities. She does not show great promise, but she firmly believes in her dream - to become the best in her field.

Directed by Stasya Venkova - With Mindaugas Papinigis, Roza Khayrullina

100 Minutes(2021)

1h 45min | Drama

3.5/5 (with 6 votes)

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?

Directed by Gleb Panfilov - With Filipp Yankovsky

The Relatives(2021)

1h 38min | Drama, Comedy

2.9/5 (with 9 votes)

One morning, the father of the family decides to fulfill his lifelong dream: to go with his family to the Grushinsky festival and perform his song there. The family is forced to come to terms with the desire of a tyrant father and go on a road trip across all of Russia. Along the way, they will have adventures, various tests and a test of their relationships for strength. But the most important thing they will understand only at the end of this extraordinary trip.

Directed by Ilya Aksyonov - With Sergey Burunov, Irina Pegova, Semyon Treskunov, Monetochka

Express(2022)

1h 20min | Comedy

4.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Caucasus, City of Cherkessk. Soslanov Sasha or how friends are used to call him Sos is never dejected. Expelled from the University, nowhere to spend the night, a love of life Nina leaving the city - it's all rubbish. Sos is loyal to his fortune. One day, out of boredom, Sasha desperately gambles an "Express" wage - the bet is starting to win. However, Sos has lost the money-receiving card and now he has only 3 days to find his "Express". Cherkessk Odyssey has begun.

With Pavel Vorožtsov, Olga Filimonova

A Portrait Of A Stranger(2022)