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Commissioned to map the Far East territories of the Russian Empire, cartographer Jonathan Green sets off on a long journey of unbelievable adventures—making breath-taking discoveries and meeting mysterious creatures, Chinese princesses, deadly masters of oriental martial arts, and even the King of Dragons.
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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.
A young and ambitious female profiler is trying to interrogate a maniac about his last victim, who might still be alive. However, the serial killer remains unresponsive. The only way to make him talk is to expose him to an effective yet deadly development called "Red Screen." There's just one problem-the profiler has to be the first one to experience "Red Screen".
After the unsuccessful attempt on the life of Baron Wrangel and the death of an intelligence agent, a new cunning plan is being developed to implement the "Crimean Mission". The best agent, Elena Golubovskaya, is appointed to this case. In Crimea, Golubovskaya appears already as El Ferrari - a gifted Italian poet. Her task is to eliminate Wrangel in order to demoralize the white movement, as well as control the operation to steal gold. Her plans are thwarted by Maximilian Ermler, a local newspaper journalist who turns out to be a British intelligence agent.
A story about a homeless teenager Chuma and her relationships with police.
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.
The elderly criminal authority Semyon Timofeevich Babushkin, about whose thieving talent legends were made up at the time, has not left prison for the last 35 years, preferring it to freedom, where he has no friends or relatives left.
Nastya lives with her mother in an old apartment in the Moscow region. They moved here from the Siberian town, where the father of the family perished at the oil plant. Nastya has only one friend — Eve. A gloomy creature living in a tunnel at a derelict hydroelectric power station. Nastya tries to run away from her mother and her lover, but once Eve comes to their house.
Stories of real people who either suspect someone close to them of treason, deception or even a crime, or are themselves under suspicion. The characters are trying to climb out of the abyss of life circumstances, but there is only one way: to stop lying.
Surreal adventures in a small provincial town in Russia that is stuck in the 1980s.
A “hunt” has been launched against the crime boss known as Antikvar by foreign creditors from Italy, Japan, and America. The security team decides to find a double for their boss and publicly put him in harm’s way. The choice falls on the young actor Vanya Lucky. Lucky is offered the chance to “star in a Hollywood blockbuster.” It seemed that everything was going according to plan. But who would have thought that representatives of the criminal world could find themselves in such absurd, sometimes tragicomic, situations by relying on an eccentric artist who is lucky even in the most hopeless situations.
Arina works as a children's entertainer, but is forced to combine this with the rigorous work of debt collection. Faced with unfair and cruel treatment of a child, Arina hopes to make things right with her ability to bring joy, but her illusion is shattered by harsh reality.
The house of culture “Mir” (from Russian: “Peace”) is being taken over by masked people. People who came to the premiere of the show have to face death. Now they are to pass a dreadful challenge, preserving their dignity and courage. This is a thriller about the struggle against the world evil, terrorism, and a win of the word over weapons. The dramatic and emotional story embraces everything — struggle, confrontation, betrayal, heroic deeds, and love!
Everyone wants to live it up; Ivan, an engineer in a provincial factory, is no exception. He has to resort to some tricks to receive his honest pay and touch that beautiful life.
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?
A popular Russian actor with a scandalous reputation, Dmitry Petrovsky, is suing his ex—wife, a middle-class actress Marina Khrumkina. For several weeks he will have to defend his honor and dignity before the court.
The brownie escapes from the captivity of Baba Yaga in her magical world, and ends up in the apartment of the girl Natasha and her parents. Kuzya needs to find his magic chest that grants wishes. Both Natasha and the local grumpy brownie Nafanya help him in this. It turns out that Kuzya himself gave the chest to Andrey, Natasha's dad, many years ago. It would seem that the goal is already close, but in search of both Kuzya and the chest, Baba Yaga entered our world, and she has her own insidious plans.
