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Fabrika Zvyozd, sometimes known internationally as Star Factory, is a popular Russian television talent show that aired on Channel One from 2002 until 2007. It was the Russian version of the Endemol format Operación Triunfo.
Yulia, a young go-go dancer, loses her job after suffering a seizure during a performance, and her mother, Irina, becomes the victim of a scam. Yulia doesn't despair and quickly finds a job at a new nightclub.
Residents of a big city, each of whom has their own sexual problems and desires, secret and, most often, shameful from the point of view of society, need to solve them. Each of the characters tries to solve their problems in their own way: someone sublimates them, someone turns to a psychotherapist for help, someone rushes into experiments... but sooner or later they all return to where they started, and they have to overcome themselves again and again to get at least a little, even a millimeter closer to their happiness.
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Most know Pavel Artemyev as "that curly guy from the group «Roots»". At the age of 19, he won the "Stars Factory-1" together with the boyz-band, traveled all over the country with concerts, won the love of countless fans. But when the 7-year contract was over, Artemiev engaged in what he always wanted - his own music, which he creates with his indie band ARTEMIEV. He is still recognized on the street, but much less often. Once upon a time, fame fell on Artemiev too easily and swiftly, now he is trying to earn it consciously. Answering the questions of radio presenter Alisa Grebenshchikova, schoolchildren, teachers and director Margarita Zakharova, Artemiev talks about his path - from the stars to the thorns, which are more valuable than the stars.
Andrey Viktorovich Izvorin is a very creative person. He draws comics and publishes them under the pseudonym Hunter, and the rest of the time he teaches history at a university and sincerely loves his subject. Izvarin came up with a theory according to which every unsolved crime, including if an innocent person was punished for it, inevitably repeats itself. The ability to draw and think with pictures, as well as knowledge of history, help him and investigator Anna Rybakova to follow the trail of the most unusual maniacs and solve the most complicated murders.
Boys of fourteen end up in the Suvorov School, some thanks to family tradition, some for the sake of high ideals, and some not even of their own free will. Having entered Suvorovskoe, the guys at first do not imagine the full extent of the load, and most importantly, the responsibility that will have a profound impact on their subsequent lives.
The main character of the story, 18-year-old Ilya Rozov (Nikita Presnyakov) comes to the Moscow branch of Raybank and gets a job as a cleaner. Ilyusha easily gets along with people and even enjoys some popularity, mainly due to his helpfulness, when suddenly he loses his job due to a minor offense.
In the summer camp, a serious war broke out between a detachment of disabled children and hooligans who suddenly appeared. And only one thing can reconcile them - saving the camp from demolition, which was conceived by the local director and the mayor for the purpose of profit.
While the ex-wife of forty-year-old radio host Andrey is building her new life, he realizes that he has lost everything through his own fault. In an attempt to understand his place in their lives, Andrey comes to the day of their common daughter's coming of age.
The young Montenegrin Kabir lives in Moscow with the Russian girl Nastya, the daughter of a Modern Art Gallery owner. Professional collaboration – installation of exhibitions, meeting guests, communication with customers – are the only things that now connect a couple being in crisis. One day Kabir disappears. He returns home to the coast of Kotor Bay. By and by, he is forgetting the Russian language, and Moscow, and the metropolitan art circuit seams nothing but a dream…
Crazy chat between neighbors in the house. The unemployed loser Pandych becomes the boss of the entrance and falls into the chat of the most ordinary neighbors: a family of trees, a vampire in law, a grandfather, a villainous mime, etc. A domestic apocalypse, screenlife scandals and the search for the meaning of life on the scale of a murdered entrance.
The talented and autistic maths student Sergei inherits from his grandfather a mysterious album with cryptic formulae. They help Sergei create a smartphone app allowing normal people to use magic – but then a most real imp comes to claim the album...
The main character is an Opel Astra car. The car has become an integral part of every person's life. In the short stories the characters work and rest together with the Opel Astra, meet, get to know each other and fall in love, quarrel and make peace.
Vinyl record sellers talk about their audience. A documentary about music lovers in the era of streaming platforms. Owners of famous St. Petersburg music stores share stories of triumph and failure. Who buys and who needs vinyl in the streaming era? 10 heroes of different generations, views and tastes talk about how they are trying to save a rare business in a crisis.
