Acting
The provincial bandit of Vorkuta lived under the motto "We are not like that ― life is like that," but in 1999 the dashing 90s ended, and he received a sentence. In prison, he lost sleep, and after a couple of weeks of insomnia, he saw his conscience in the form of a man who said that as long as he was bad, he would not sleep.
Collection of satirical sketches, telling about the decent inhabitants of the Patriarchal Ponds and their obscene stories. The series includes touching, outrageous and full of love intimate stories that are not accepted to speak out loud.
A successful obstetrician living a seemingly stable married life begins to question her relationship when emotional and physical intimacy fades. Suspecting her husband of betrayal, she seeks connection elsewhere, stepping into a hidden world that offers desire, control, and escape. As she navigates this parallel existence, the boundaries between loyalty, loneliness, and self-discovery slowly begin to blur.
Russian scientists have created an android policeman. Perfect in all respects, Captain Anna Nikolaevna Korolkevich goes to serve in a provincial city to see real life and become a human. Colleagues think that Anna Nikolaevna is the daughter of the deputy minister, and nothing portends trouble until humanization goes too far.
A grim drama that unfolds against the backdrop of a global catastrophe. An unknown new virus turns Moscow into a city of the dead. Money loses its value and those not yet infected struggle desperately for food and survival.
A struggling writer in 1930s Soviet Moscow finds his life transformed when a mysterious professor arrives with his bizarre entourage, including a wisecracking trickster, a deadly assassin, a vampire maid, and a giant talking black cat, turning the city upside down while exposing the hypocrisy of those in power.
17-year-old tennis player Katya is forced to quit the sport. Her family has no money, no connections, and not even the desire to fight for her dream of the world of big-time sports. Now tennis has become a way of survival for the girl. Pretending to be a novice, Katya goes to private courts in Moscow and beats rich amateurs for money. One of these "duels" is witnessed by former professional athlete Igor Strelnikov, a tired coach who has long dreamed of finding a truly gifted child. When he sees Katya, he realizes that this is the "uncut diamond" and his chance to return to the world of big—time sports. Igor is making the biggest bet of his career on Katya.
Russia, 1959. A KGB major investigates the mysterious deaths of a group of nine student hikers in the Ural Mountains. Troubled by his past as a WWII veteran, he has a sixth sense and death seems to follow him around as he digs deeper into the mysterious incident. The more he learns, the more it becomes clear: the reason the students died will never see the light of day.
In the One Call bar, anyone can call a deceased loved one by agreeing to a deadly game of Russian roulette. Investigator Andrey Morozov is looking for his missing son, and all the evidence leads to a mysterious bar that appears in different places, leaving behind the bodies of dead visitors.
Figure skater Ksenia returns to her hometown to finally find out the truth about the tragedy of a decade ago, when her figure skating partner died. Having become a children's coach at the same sports school, she quickly realizes that behind the brilliance of "elite sports" there is still silence, pressure and fear. Coaches maintain the illusion of well-being, parents nod approvingly from the stands, and children's destinies continue to break under the weight of other people's ambitions. In this world, injuries are inherited, and every family has secrets they don't want to talk about out loud. And it is among these carefully hidden "skeletons in the closet" that the answer lies — the one that Ksenia has been afraid of all these years.
In order to pay off the debts of her mother, who owes a large sum to debt collection agencies, the sexually and morally restricted social worker Marusya is forced to familiarize herself with the world.
The story is about a father who, after learning about his wife's infidelity, decides to take his twelve-year-old son and raise him on his own. In order to increase his chances of leaving a child in a divorce, he embarks on the path of becoming a demonstrative father – he joins the parent committee of the class. There he meets his former classmate, Sveta Surkova, who has changed a lot in twenty years. She turned from a gray nerd into a purposeful and self-confident woman who harshly directs moms from the parent committee, and even the school principal is afraid of her. Only one thing remained unchanged – her dislike for Shmelev, who did not give her a quiet life as a child. To stay on the parent committee, he must find a common language with Surkova and the rest of the moms.
At the center of the story are five completely different men who meet in the waiting room of a maternity hospital on one of the most important days of their lives. While their wives are giving birth, future fathers have time to argue, quarrel, share personal fears and create their own “Fathers’ Club.”
Tanya raises two children alone during the day and works as a taxi driver at night. Everything changes when she learns about a serious diagnosis. Now she is worried about only one thing: who will the children stay with if the disease turns out to be stronger? Tanya is not ready to entrust them to unreliable relatives and decides to find a worthy man, marry him to herself, so that if something happens, he will take care of the children. The only person with whom Tanya shares her thoughts is her doctor. Suddenly the plan works, and at some point there are too many applicants.
Millionaire Georgiy celebrates his birthday all alone. Not being quite sober, he demands that his faithful assistant Ilya organize a real family for him by the morning. Imagine Georgiy's amazement when he wakes up surrounded by his wife, son and daughter, who claim that he has always had them. Their words are confirmed by documents, family photos, employees, partners and even Georgiy's own mother. Now he has to learn how to be a husband and father, and in this matter, money will not solve all the problems.
Outstanding oratorical talent and natural wit help Fyodor Plevako to smash the accusers in court, and ordinary people consider him a hero.
Experienced Moscow police officer Maksim Pokrovskiy is sent to Northern Russia to investigate the murder of the local Oligarch's daughter.
The main character is the star of a popular TV series about doctors, actor Yegor Rumyantsev. Having achieved great success, he becomes an egoist and does not notice the feelings and experiences of those around him: he does not come to the shooting, leads a promiscuous sex life and deceives people. One day, Egor finds out that he has HIV. Rumyantsev's brother Lev is a mediocre and unlucky actor who runs a program about useful handicrafts on the cable channel "Ant-TV". Leo has a pregnant wife with two young daughters. He has no prospects for making money and moving up the career ladder until he gets a chance to replace his brother Yegor in the series
At the end of the 19th century, a series of mysterious murders occur in the provincial city of N. Metropolitan investigator Goremykin arrives at the crime scene. The search for the perpetrators leads to an unexpected conclusion – a revolutionary circle within the city, which consists of two young men recently returned from Switzerland.
Handsome, witty, self-confident adventurer, womanizer Dzhamal, who fled from his native Kazan to Moscow, hiding from the father of his former passion. In the capital, the experienced hero-lover quickly finds a place where he is offered to apply his talents on an "industrial scale": he is hired by the famous School of Relationships "Egoists". And if for the director Valeriya Shamina this is a chance to earn big, then for her best specialist - careerist and practicing psychologist Elena Ostrovskaya, Dzhamal becomes a real problem.
