The end of the Soviet empire. The General Secretary lies in the government clinic. He is old and frail, but has a tight grip on power. "The power is only taken, it is never given away," he repeats. And it is convenient for both the elites and the secret services -- while the "body" is alive, various groups are scoring their political points. The General Secretary is "sentenced to life". A young nurse Sasha looks after him. Small, fragile and invisible, she bears a heavy burden of responsibility for the life of the country's top official. Meanwhile, the old man is waging a war in Afghanistan, has a nuclear button and can take the entire world to the grave with him.

Some sporting victories are about more than just claiming a title. Some of them go down in history. The film follows the most dramatic and legendary showdown in the history of chess – the match between Anatoly Karpov, then world champion, and Viktor Korchnoi, a recent emigrant from the USSR. In this battle between two outstanding chess players, a duel of personalities under immense psychological pressure, the stakes are incomprehensibly high.

The tape is dedicated to writer, publicist, long-term employee and editor-in-chief of the Russian service of Radio Liberty Peter Vail. Filming took place in New York, Prague and Venice. The film uses rare archive photo, video and audio materials. Vail's texts are read by Alexander Filippenko. Peter Weil died in December 2009. In 2014 he would have turned 65.

The private part of a young man leaves the owner and starts his own adventure...

This fairy tale takes place on the New Year's Eve. Elka, a polar bear cub, finds a Magic Tunnel of Friendship near his home. This Tunnel connects the Northern and the Southern Poles. With the help of the Tunnel, Elka gets a friend - a penguin girl Tasha. She tells Elka that Antarctica, her motherland, is in a great danger, since evil people have been stealing the snow which is almost all gone by now. Elka and Tasha leave immediately to save Antarctica. At the Southern Pole, the brave polar bear cub and the little penguin will find true friends and experience the most unbelievable adventure of their lives. Written by Tatiana Didusenko

Brothers Stas and Kostya find themselves in 2506 as the prisoners of Space Prison then get in touch with the unusual people of the future to play a strange game with them. Later, they are captured by the fantastic sphinx Shidla who guards them from various dangers. Further, the brothers keep moving in their time machine and their next stop is Ancient Egypt.

The Master and Margarita is a Russian television production of Telekanal Rossiya, based on the novel The Master and Margarita, written by Soviet writer Mikhail Bulgakov between 1928 and 1940. Vladimir Bortko directed this adaptation and was also its screenwriter.

Russia is at the dawn of great changes and the fate of a young man, Pyotr Cherkasov, who was forced to sacrifice his personal happiness to save the Motherland. In the center of events are bright and interesting characters, whose personal life history is woven into the history of European life. The interweaving of love lines, betrayal, jealousy, intrigue, exposing the enemies of Russia and the world order. Napoleon Bonaparte hatches plans to take over all of Europe. One of the most terrible wars in national history is approaching. In the meantime, the Russian people live in peace and ignorance. With the arrival of Prince Kuragin, the life of Peter changes forever. Emperor Paul I needs the best people to help Russia unravel Napoleon's insidious plans, and Kuragin, seeing Cherkasov's talents, invites him to go to St. Petersburg for military service. Cherkasov agrees, and now his life belongs to the Motherland.

The first part of Bulat Mansurov's planned epic film series; “The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars". Tells the story of pagan Rus' during the time of Prince Igor, his murder by the Drevlyans, Olga's revenge, Olga's repentance and adoption of Christianity.

A fairy tale from the cycle "Mountain of gems" about how Ivan sold a goat and guarded the door, but suddenly married a princess.

My Fair Nanny is a Russian comedy television series based on the American television sitcom, The Nanny.

Poor Nastya is a Russian telenovela originally aired from 31 October 2003 to 30 April 2004 on the STS. Based on the imperial setting of the 19th century, the series reached international success and was shown in Ukraine, China, Israel, Serbia, Georgia, Greece, Bulgaria and more than twenty countries worldwide. With the budget of $11,8million, it is the most expensive Russian television project of all time. The sequel was planned, but had not been made yet.

Tartarin is the local hero in the small provincial town of Tarascon. He shows off about imaginary adventures in Africa, where he has never been, as a Lion Hunter, which he is only in his imagination. But one day he becomes a real hero...

What should I do if life has failed? What should I do if my daughter's happiness depends on the future visit of the groom — the heir of the Spanish grandee? What should I do if the groom's father is obsessed with titles and wealth? The only way out is to turn into a rich lady for the day. Street vendor Ani, with the help of her many friends and acquaintances, cannot help but cope with this task. A brothel owner and a young conman, a judge and the mayor of New York himself are involved in an incredible cycle of events. They play out a whole performance in front of the groom and his father against the backdrop of skyscrapers, cars with horns, women's lace umbrellas and incendiary jazz melodies, and in this gala performance Anya plays the role of a real socialite…

The story of the last year and a half of Tsar Nicholas II and his family from the February Revolution of 1917 to their execution in July 1918.

Russian game show based on the original French format of Fort Boyard.

XII century. The Prince of Suzdal Yuri Dolgoruky is trying to unite the Russian lands

When the powerful of this world give a small scoundrel the opportunity to become a big scoundrel - how many opportunities there are for a funny comedy...

Upon returning from a business trip, Pavel Antoshin learns from his wife that she wants to leave him. The man is shocked by this news, because it happened after twenty years of marriage. But Pavel was even more surprised that his wife offered him her girl friend instead.

Master is a talented writer in Moscow working on a manuscript about the biblical Jesus and Pontius Pilate. Authorities in Moscow are harassing Master by surveillance and intimidation. Victimized by their harassment, Master throws his manuscript into the fire, before he is locked up in a mental clinic. His assistant and Muse Margarita tries to help Master using the supernatural powers she got from the devil - Woland who is visiting Moscow..

Based on Clifford Simak's story "All Flesh is Grass". In the small settlement strange things lately are created, and soon the settlement is cut off from the outside world by an insuperable wall. The scientist Alexander Kartin tries to investigate the unusual phenomenon.

Anna is a lonely divorced woman. Maria also has no husband, but has two children. Raising two children without a husband, Mary is unhappy. She loves Nicholas. But he is married and cannot stay with her forever because of a sick daughter. After a long absence, Nikolai, unaware that Mary had died, leaves his wife. But she meets an unfamiliar woman in her house - her friend Anna, who is raising her children, and decides to stay with her ...

Профессор Ян Драммонд, новым изобретением которого заинтересовались русские и американцы, убит у себя в особняке Саншайн Менор при полном стечении гостей. Писатель Джо Алекс, приехавший накануне убийства вместе с актрисой Сарой, и детектив Бен Паркер, прежде чем вычислить истинного убийцу, будут подозревать в преступлении каждого из присутствующих, потому что у каждого были для этого основания и против каждого были улики.

Life changes for a Moscow worker when he's made Stalin's personal film projectionist but cannot tell his bride.

A surreal fairy tale for adult viewers, mixing animated and live performances. Wasn't finished due to budget problems.

The dissolute way of life of Mariya Egorova, nicknamed "Magdalene", abruptly ends - her friend, driving her into debt and putting her "on the counter", taking her passport, through a pimp she knows, offers her to work as a prostitute. During the conversation, Mariya breaks the pimp's head, ends up in the police station, from where she escapes. Now bandits and the police are looking for her, and she urgently needs to find money to buy a passport and leave the city with her daughter.

Monsieur Perrichon, a rich coachbuilder by profession, is an honest but vain member of the bourgeoisie who decides to take a pleasure trip in the company of his wife Caroline and his daughter Henrietta. The family, deciding on a train journey to the Swiss Alps, arrive at Gare de Lyon in Paris where they happen upon two young suitors, both with the same goal of marrying Henrietta. Over the course of the journey, the two men are involved in an honorable but fierce struggle for the young lady's hand in marriage.

A few days from the life of average brothel in early XX century Russia. Based on the classical novel by Aleksandr Kuprin.

The story of a man and a wolf-dog in East Siberia during the early 1900s.

Another planet in the period of medieval times. An employee of the institute of experimental history from Earth, who is send under the name of noble don Rumata of Estor as a spy with a mission to contact the local resident of the institute, arrives in the city of Arkanar. But the resident perishes under an unlucky attempt to make a palace coup, and Rumata have to take his place as the resident. Soon he meets all the horrors of the medieval society - a peasant war, palace coups, mass executions. To continue to be an indifferent watcher of all these horrors turns out to be simply impossible...

Bambr, Hermit, Bird, Cat and Mouse - already familiar from the film Ferocious Bambre, are faced with the insidious Hunter, who planned to turn Bambre into a hunting dog. But friendship and mutual assistance win this time as well.

Pre-Petrine Russia, Semyon Lazarev, one of the instigators of the “Copper Riot”, is forced to flee, as a result of which he ends up in the army of the leader of the peasant uprising Stepan Razin.

Dragon is a bloody dictator, who kills every opponent. People live hopelessly, until Lancelot comes to save the beautiful Elsa. Lancelot can only win, if all people become free from fear, that is feeding the Dragon's power. Dragon's multiple personalities, ranging from a "dragon" to a "samurai" to a "Nazi", scare the hell out of all people, except Lancelot. Finally Dragon drops all his masks, to become the most dangerous of his incarnations - "himself". And the battle begins

Aboard a ship early in the 20th-century, a middle-aged Italian tells his story of love to a Russian.

Autumn 1941. In a Nazi POW camp near Kyiev, a person claiming to be a doctor appears. He convinced Germans to set up a hospital. Raising no suspicions in Germans, he supplied prisoners with weapons and helped them to escape.

The Battle of Moscow is a 1985 Soviet multi-part war narrative, presenting a dramatized account of the 1941 Battle of Moscow and the events preceding it. The battle was the first major defeat of German Wehrmacht in the Second World War.

Adventurous movie based on classical Robert Louis Stevenson novel.

The action takes place in the hotel "goldfish", the administration of which fulfills the various wishes of its guests.

An ostrich is trying to learn how to fly in a dessert.

Russian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin's Great Purge. Ivan Lapshin, the head of the local police, does what he has to do. And he does it well.

An international geological expedition led by a Russian engineer works in an inaccessible area of one of the Latin American countries. Scientists are held hostage by a nearby gang that trades in the drug trade. Geologists are in mortal danger ...

Lyudmila Gurchenko's brilliant performance in a musical drama about a life of the struggling singer.

The Earth is facing great problems in the nearest future it is in the lack of sun light. Physicist Olmin is leading the project to build a special tunnel - made of elementary fractions - from the sun to the earth, in order to the earth could get much more sun energy and light. At the same time a strange flower is brought to the Earth from a dead planet.

This TV version of the world-famous play by William Shakespeare stands out for its unusual production design and mise-en-scene.

In 1944 a Soviet marine air force unit stationed near Murmansk is fighting off the German bombers attacking the British navy convoys supplying the Soviet Union with war materials under the lend-lease agreement.

Army and police are trying to fight crime in West Belarus during Spring of 1945.

Teleplay based on W. Shakespeare's play of the same name from Vakhtangov Theater

A poor Chilean Joaquin Murrieta decides to move to California in gold searches. On his way he meets a beautiful girl who becomes his wife. But their happiness is short. Life of the gold diggers is cruel... After his wife dies Joaquin takes up arms to revenge.

Going to vacation at his grandmother’s in a village, the boy Mitya could never imagine that he would become a participant of the extraordinary adventures in a fairy-tale land.

Ensign-border guard Kalitkin, having retired due to shell shock, works as a guide for a scientific expedition in the border zone. One day, noticing violators in the border zone, Kalitkin without hesitation enters into an unequal battle with the enemy...

Ivanhoe is the story of one of the remaining Saxon noble families at a time when the nobility in England was overwhelmingly Norman. It follows the Saxon protagonist, Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe, who is out of favor with his father for his allegiance to the Norman king Richard the Lionheart. The story is set in 1194, after the failure of the Third Crusade, when many of the Crusaders were still returning to their homes in Europe. King Richard, who had been captured by Leopold of Austria on his return journey to England, was believed to still be in captivity.

An ex-tennis pro carries out a plot to murder his wife. When things go wrong, he improvises a brilliant plan B.

Doctor Nechayev lives by the concerns of his patients. This is a man of remarkable mental qualities and a highly qualified specialist in cardiology, but he is completely unadapted to life in everyday life and imperceptibly lost himself, did not do much of what he dreamed of and did not understand the selfless love of a young student Alya. The doctor gradually puts an end to his hopes and dreams – they fade into the background, supplanted by work in the hospital.

Crimea, 1919. The White Guards are preparing a trial of the revolutionary Antonina Chumak. Sailor Kuskov, Cossack Dmitry Chumak and card cheater Fedor Chumar arrive in the city to save her.

About one day of a large mining family. In the center of the picture is a veteran, a former miner, and now a pensioner Panteleimon Dmitriyevich Grinin, who on Victory Day decided to introduce children to his “lady of the heart” hairdresser Zinaida. The action lasts only a day, but a lot happens during this time with the sons, daughters-in-law, daughter and Zinaida...

The events take place in Russia in 1917. A former peasant, and now a soldier, Ivan Shadrin, was sent by fellow soldiers from the German front to revolutionary Petrograd to hand Lenin a letter with questions from his comrades.

A film based on the story of the same name by Grigory Gorin. An employee of a certain SRI Potapov is a liar and an opportunist. But he does not even know that he is committing low things.

This late 60s Russian films is set in 1920, just 3 years after the October revolution. Folks had the choice between red and white, revolution and contra revolution. In that torn-apart-time, one man, the comedian Volodya, tries to mediate, not between different ideologies, but social life and art. While others just want to wash away their gloom, he reflects on the everyday sorrows and the role of art in that time of changes.