Mikhail Idov

Russian comedy detective series centres around a ‘fixing’ agency set up to troubleshoot problems for rich Russians in London

The early 1960s. The Soviet Union is experiencing a bright Khrushchev-era, full of hope. A group of young diplomats at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs come face to face with world-changing global events. Before long, these wide-eyed idealists find themselves deep in the breathtaking world of spy games, mortal dangers, and brilliant political maneuvering.

Leningrad, one summer in the early eighties. Smuggling LPs by Lou Reed and David Bowie, the underground rock scene is boiling ahead of the Perestroika. Mike and his beautiful wife Natasha meet with young Viktor Tsoi. Together with friends, they will change the destiny of rock’n’roll in the Soviet Union.

An advertising creative in a rut finds his life turned upside down when he discovers his ability to write his wishes into reality.

Max Andreev thought the best place to start a new life would be at the other end of the world. What he didn't know, is that you can't outrun your past.

The plot centers on a couple of Zhenya and Nikita, whose lives are radically changing due to an ordinary quarrel at the airport. Lovers find themselves on different sides of the world. Zhenya gets on the set in Berlin, meets a brilliant director and becomes a co-author of his film. And Nikita goes to Thailand, where his life is also turned upside down. But one thing remains unchanged for the guy: the desire to be close to Zhenya, which can overcome all geographical, physical and even moral boundaries.

Russian President Vladimir Putin was one of the first politicians to congratulate Donald Trump on his election as president of the United States in 2016, but over time the relationship between the two heads of state has had its ups and downs. Are they friends or enemies? Has their mutual admiration turned into mutual distrust?

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.

A fight en route to an airport leads an ordinary Moscow couple to split on a whim. With Nikita ending up in Thailand and Zhenya in Berlin, both find themselves in two separate love triangles, inadvertently causing chaos in others' relationships as they attempt to fix theirs. But even continents apart, their lives turn out to be more intricately connected than they realize.

A husband, a wife and another woman. Only three are in the frame.

CIA agent Stella Turner goes undercover to seduce and recruit enigmatic tech savant Daniel Sim, whose genius may be the key to stopping a catastrophic leak of U.S. defense secrets. But the tables turn fast: Daniel is no ordinary target — he’s a master manipulator with a secret of his own. As the line between ally and adversary blurs, seduction turns into full-blown psychological warfare, and Stella finds herself walking into a trap of global proportions.

Riot Days is an inventive and shocking performance based on the memoirs of Maria Alyokhina from Pussy Riot. With this performance, one of the main art groups in the world traveled to more than 200 countries in Europe, the USA, Brazil, Australia and New Zealand. The performance received many prestigious awards, and also gathered an enthusiastic press.

In an exclusive concert for VotVot, the master visits the most diverse periods of his legendary discography.

The concert of the AIGEL group, where Aigel Gaisina and Ilya Baramiya perform their debut album "1190" in full for the first time. A unique location was chosen for the performance — the building of the abandoned AS hotel on the Adriatic coast, which has been empty for about 20 years.

A film about Pavel Kushnir — a musician who refused to compromise, in art or in conscience. A “great little man,” as his friends describe him, Pavel played sublime music for two elderly women in an empty community hall with the same devotion he would have brought to Carnegie Hall. He wrote extraordinary novels and dared to protest, fully aware of the consequences. In 2024, Pavel Kushnir died in a prison in Birobidzhan.

The second stand-up special of the rising comedy star Kristina Bitkulova. With the "What's the Difference" program, she visited eight countries, and the single itself was recorded in Kazakhstan. In her speech, Kristina talks about aerophobia and childhood injuries, and also tries to figure out how to keep your mind in emigration.

The new special by Denis Chuzhoy is both a story about life in forced emigration and a reflection on what is happening in Russia right now. With the ability to find humor in the gloomy, Chuzhoy jokes about how not to lose oneself in a foreign country, what to do with depression, and why it is not worth relying on food delivery when learning a new language.

The troubadour of rap hedonism of the 2010s, who became one of the main voices of protest in the 2020s at the peak of his form.

When four middle-aged American rockers hole up at a farmhouse in the serene and scenic Northern Ontario to record one last album, the tangle of relationships within the band turns deadly.

Ariana Lolaeva's debut stand-up special is frank, smart and very funny. In her first full-length concert, Ariana talks about the lives of women, jokes about her magical abilities and talks about how... they wanted to kill her!