Pavel Lungin . He has won an Nika Awards and an Cannes Film Festival. He's known for Luna Park (1992), Taxi Blues (1990) and Bednye rodstvenniki (2005).
The end of the Soviet-Afghan war. The USSR begins its withdrawal from Afghanistan. Soviet General Vasiliev's son - a pilot named Alexander gets kidnapped by the mujahideen after his airplane crashes. As a result the 108th motorize...
Once upon a time, the great soprano Sophia Maier conquered the world with her voice, her beauty and the legend she carefully built around herself. Now only the legend remains- the diva herself hasn't performed for years, nor been ...
In 16th-century Russia in the grip of chaos, Ivan the Terrible strongly believes he is vested with a holy mission. Believing he can understand and interpret the signs, he sees the Last Judgment approaching. He establishes absolute...
Somewhere in Northern Russia in a small Russian Orthodox monastery lives an unusual man whose bizarre conduct confuses his fellow monks, while others who visit the island believe that the man has the power to heal, exorcise demons...
The beautiful Tanya returns to her small mining town, after supposedly working as a model in Moscow. She decides to marry her shy school sweetheart Mishka, who now works in the mine. The miners finally receive some pay, but Mishka...
In the post-communist Russia, Luna-Park is the meeting place of the extreme right wing "Cleaners", which Andrei is the capo. Their mission is to purify Moscow minorities, according to them, staining the capital, foreigne...
Ivan is old Russia: thick, dour, hard-working, often brutish; he misses Communism. He drives a taxi and one night meets Alexi, a new Russian, a musician, an alcoholic, irresponsible. Alexi stiffs Ivan for the fare, so Ivan tracks ...
Year 1652. The young but intelligent Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich is preparing to elect Nikon (former prior of the Novospassky monastery and metropolitan of Novgorod) Patriarch of Russia, in his general policy of modernizing Russia an...
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