Sofya Ernst

Moscow, present day. The city of big money, passion, gorgeous women and wealthy men, receptions and dangerous intrigue. Dasha, an art historian from the province, who came to the capital, dreams of a new, better life, but a mysterious and cruel incident will change everything.

About what leads to sex, and what happens immediately after it. In one of the novels, a guy agrees to have a child with his best friend, unaware of her insidious plan. In another, a casual acquaintance makes a vegan wonder if sex contradicts her beliefs. And the dispute between two strangers about feminism is resolved in bed, where a woman is not going to remain in debt to a man. The heroes of the stories tell not about sex, but about what surrounds it.

The doctor opens the first department of plastic surgery in Moscow in the 1960s. Denis Shvedov as a talented medic.

By overthrowing Napoleon, the Russian army changed the world. The time has come to change Russia itself. But the winners were divided. The authorities are slow, and a conspiracy is brewing among the young officers of the military elite. The opportunity to negotiate is decreasing every day. Their own become enemies. There comes a time of anger.

The story of three generations of the Gromov family. The main character is Prokhor Gromov: his grandfather Danila made a fortune by robbery and robbery, father Peter invested money in the business and inherited everything to Prokhor. He has an entrepreneurial streak: he equips the forests of Siberia, builds a steel mill, but the richer he gets, the more he turns into a monster.

The story is about a generation of brave and beautiful people who survived the devastation of the revolution and the chaos of the civil war, who dreamed of building a new life in which there would be no place for death, but only incredible love, opening the way for them to great achievements and discoveries. About the exploits and glory, betrayal and loyalty of those who were heroes in heaven and on earth, about the time of immense trials that fell on their short but bright lives. About a woman who was the dream and true love of the Soviet Union.

A person with amnesia writes down his memories in an attempt to reconstruct his life history.

Russian troops occupied Paris. Russia became the first power in the world. Now everything seems possible. Young winners, guards officers, are sure that equality and freedom will come - here and now. For this they are ready to sacrifice everything - position, wealth, love, life ... and the country itself.

Petersburg. A Selfie comprises seven novellas about the beautiful city of St. Petersburg, Russia, shot by female directors. The film tells a story of a real, living and breathing city, rather than a mythical phantasm. Each novella tells its own story about love and loneliness, luck and hope.

The characters have fictitious names, but they can easily be guessed by real people whom everyone knows perfectly well: Robert Rozhdestvensky, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Andrei Voznesensky, Bulat Okudzhava, Bella Akhmadulina, Vladimir Vysotsky, Ernst Neizvestny, Vasily Aksenov himself and others.

The film is about a generation of brave and beautiful people who did not see the destruction of the revolution and the chaos of the civil war, who dreamed of building a new life in which there would be no place for death, but only incredible love that opens the way for them to great achievements and discoveries. About exploits and glory, betrayal and loyalty of those who were heroes in heaven and on earth. About the time of immense trials that fell on their short but bright lives. About a woman who was the dream and true love of the Soviet Union.

The film's two main protagonists are Russia's best saber fencers. One of them has long been in the limelight, the other only recently made it into the national team and has been winning almost every tournament since. The two athletes begin to fight for supremacy both on and off the arena.

Robbers in shamanic masks attack the convoy and steal 40 pounds of gold. The St. Petersburg gold miner accuses the nomadic Tungus tribe, recruits a detachment of thugs to return the stolen goods and take revenge, but not only he has prospects for gold.

The matriarchal clan led by gorgeous Margarita enters a turbulent period when her son loses his beloved fiancée. Using the structure of a repetitive ritual, the action spans years but takes place mostly during the annual gatherings of Margarita's extraordinary family in their mansion on New Year's Eve. Margarita believes in the magical 13th hour that can break the eternal circle of repetition, defeat death and bring her much-awaited love.

Renata Litvinova's short film for Gucci. Once in a year a clan of magicians gathers to "make their most important wishes and do some magic". To make it all happen everyone should put their letters in a special Gucci bag.

In a fashionable bar there are two - a teenage girl and a successful businessman, and between them a conversation begins.

A look at the story through the prism of the present. Artists in front of the audience reincarnate in the heroes of the film (the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky; the women he loved and left him; the friends who admired him and backed away from him; the ruthless “Knights of the Revolution” who proclaimed him his banner) and lead the viewer “to” Mayakovsky, forcing him to live his love, creative, and human drama as his own.

Cinema is like poetry. It can grow out of fantasy that became reality, or it can grow out of reality that turned into a dream. Who knows where on the screen lies end and truth begin? In the pavilion of Lenfilm, after shouting "motor" everyone can become a poet, a dream of something more. A glued-on nose can turn you into Joseph Brodsky, and artificial snow will burn you with cold.