Valentin Samokhin

Valentin Samokhin

Born: July 29, 1973
in Moscow, USSR (Russia)

Movies for Valentin Samokhin...

Liar
Title: Liar
Released: April 19, 2024
Type: Movie
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."
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Extraordinary
Title: Extraordinary
Released: March 28, 2024
Type: Movie
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.
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The Master and Margarita
Title: The Master and Margarita
Character: Poprikhin
Released: January 25, 2024
Type: Movie
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.
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Encounters
Title: Encounters
Released: December 31, 2023
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Penultimate Instance
Character: Ivan Sherstyanih
Released: January 1, 2022
Type: TV
Maxim and Valentina work in the Department for the Distribution of Souls — 24 hours before the death of a person, they must determine where he will go — to hell or heaven. And since both are guaranteed paradise under an employment contract, Maxim is trying to earn extra money and sell a place in paradise to oligarchs, and Valentina dreams of returning her husband from hell.
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Danube
Title: Danube
Released: October 21, 2021
Type: Movie
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.
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100 Minutes
Title: 100 Minutes
Character: Fetyukov
Released: September 23, 2021
Type: Movie
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?
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In Your Head
Title: In Your Head
Released: September 18, 2021
Type: Movie
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.
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The End
Title: The End
Character: Mitya
Released: May 20, 2021
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: A Perfect Family
Character: Vasiliy
Released: November 30, 2020
Type: TV
Aleksei stumbles upon a secret about his employer, an unscrupulous pharmaceutical company, that allowed it to amass millions of dollars. Fearing for his life, he finds no better place for his family to hide than the set of a… reality show. Now they will have to live under the watchful eye of the cameras and pretend to be a Perfect Family for 4 months.
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Title: Guests From the Past
Released: October 26, 2020
Type: TV
Moscow, year 1982. Scientist Matvey Pyotrovsky creates a time machine and conducts a scientific experiment, which divides the apartment in two parts. It's first part is left in the 80-s with the professor, while the second one is transported to year 2020 to a modern family: businessman Sergey, his wife Svetlana and daughter Kristina. This kind of coliving creates a lot of trouble for everybody, since layering of two times means each of the families has lost access to the other part of the apartment. But problems don't end there: inventor's grandson Pavel, after waiting for 38 years, tries to prevent one tragic incident.
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Title: Hussar
Character: Samsonov - unhappy banquet client
Released: October 5, 2020
Type: TV
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Lead Anna
Title: Lead Anna
Released: October 4, 2020
Type: Movie
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.
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Splendore
Title: Splendore
Released: September 14, 2020
Type: Movie
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…
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Infidelity
Title: Infidelity
Character: actor
Released: October 31, 2019
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Zhuki
Released: September 2, 2019
Type: TV
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High Above
Title: High Above
Character: watchman
Released: June 27, 2019
Type: Movie
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.
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Billion
Title: Billion
Released: April 18, 2019
Type: Movie
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 ...
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Title: Zorge
Character: Schultz (official)
Released: April 8, 2019
Type: TV
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Ambivalence
Title: Ambivalence
Character: Egor
Released: March 21, 2019
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Другие
Released: January 21, 2019
Type: TV
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Russian Shorts. Vol. 1
Title: Russian Shorts. Vol. 1
Character: Garden enthusiast ("Leo & Hurricane")
Released: November 26, 2018
Type: Movie
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.
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Prefect
Title: Prefect
Character: Evgeny Olegovich
Released: November 5, 2018
Type: Movie
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?
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Crimean Bridge. Made With Love!
Title: Crimean Bridge. Made With Love!
Released: November 1, 2018
Type: Movie
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.
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Six Twenty Eight
Title: Six Twenty Eight
Released: June 3, 2018
Type: Movie
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.
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Dovlatov
Title: Dovlatov
Released: February 27, 2018
Type: Movie
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.
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Leo & Hurricane
Title: Leo & Hurricane
Character: Garden enthusiast
Released: December 9, 2017
Type: Movie
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.
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Pagans
Title: Pagans
Character: Oleg
Released: November 8, 2017
Type: Movie
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.
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Ice Hole
Title: Ice Hole
Released: September 28, 2017
Type: Movie
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.
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For All I Died
Title: For All I Died
Released: August 9, 2017
Type: Movie
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.
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New Russians 2
Title: New Russians 2
Character: ("Fedor's Journey Through Moscow at the Turn of the XXI Century")
Released: September 17, 2015
Type: Movie
An anthology of five stories that can literally happen to anyone.
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Fedor's Journey Through Moscow at the Turn of the XXI Century
Title: Fedor's Journey Through Moscow at the Turn of the XXI Century
Released: June 8, 2015
Type: Movie
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.
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Another Year
Title: Another Year
Released: January 15, 2014
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: School
Released: January 11, 2010
Type: TV
9 "A" was an exemplary class, while their class teacher was Nosov Anatoly Germanovich - a strong and experienced teacher, recognized in 2009 as the Teacher of the Year. After his sudden illness, 9 "A" is left without a strong hand. The myth of the exemplary class is crumbling, discipline is cracking at the seams. Nosov's granddaughter, Anya Nosova, is perhaps the most difficult teenager of the school. A new student Ilya Epifanov provokes situations in which students manifest themselves from unexpected sides, turning upside down the usual idea of ​​them as classmates and teachers. None of the teachers want to take on the class, which of the model has become the most difficult.
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Title: The Golden Calf
Character: секретарь секции инженеров и техников
Released: January 30, 2006
Type: TV
The history of Bender's hunt for the underground millionaire Koreiko develops in the 1920s. Bright characters, adventurous adventures and a light veil of a bygone era in a new version of the classic work of Soviet literature.
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Title: Azazel
Character: Ishimov - student
Released: March 10, 2002
Type: TV
The main character, an official of the 14th grade, Erast Petrovich Fandorin, serves as a clerk in the Detective Department and secretly dreams of becoming a detective. By the will of circumstances, he finds himself involved in the investigation of a mysterious suicide.
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Title: Money
Released: January 1, 2002
Type: TV
The action takes place on "Like a Radio". The rating of the radio station is approaching zero, the Agency that places ads on its air is suffering losses, advertisers are demanding a change of managers and are going to determine the station's policy themselves, the management staff is really changing, but the new bosses will not blindly obey the instructions of the advertising Agency.