Svetlana Kryuchkova

A movie about a married couple of elderly intellectuals from St. Petersburg. About their wisdom, calmness, optimism, patience and forgiveness. That is, about everything that contemporary people lack. That is why they themselves, their warmth and their house attract those in need of warmth, help and support like fire.

From her first stage work with Sergei Yursky at the Bolshoi Drama Theatre, to her screen debut in The Long Recess which brought her fame, to her later roles in Sergey Snezhkin’s Bury Me Behind the Baseboard and Brezhnev—a rich creative biography of Svetlana Kryuchkova unfolds before our eyes. The actress’s life story is recounted by herself, her colleagues, friends, and film scholars.

Five-year-old Sasha often listens to the opera Madame Butterfly. It is shown on TV and broadcast on the radio. The story of Madame Butterfly becomes for Sasha the key to the dramas that take place in the family, but which she still cannot understand.

Based on the works of Mikhail Zhvanetsky. The plot of the new comedy is based on the famous miniatures “Odessa Steamboat”, “Two Apples”, “Meeting at the Distillery” and other works by one of the country's most famous humor writers Mikhail Zhvanetsky. In total - 13 miniatures. The fates of the heroes of each story are intertwined, and the viewer will see a panorama of life in which the head of the transport department could not be heard, the plane’s crew wonders if passengers can land the plane, the barmaid stands at the helm of the ship, and the father teaches his son arithmetic, destroying all the apples in the house...

A comedy about the love between a doctor who specializes in sexually transmitted diseases and an astronaut, and a covert space experiment.

A story based on love between Anton Chekhov and a young writer Lidiya Avilova.

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.

A semi-fictional account of the life of Russian poet Joseph Brodsky, who was forced into American exile in 1972.

Eldar Ryazanov reads his poetry. An introspective movie on his multifaceted work.

Based on famous fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen.