Sergey Lepikhin

A young, intelligent and lucky guy, nicknamed Favorite, which stuck to him during his student years, is interested in karate. The local mafia notices him and begins to promote him to the People's Deputies of the RSFSR. A girl he meets after a long separation helps the hero understand this situation. The fight for her honor develops into an open battle with a criminal group, from which the guy emerges with honor.

Film tells the story of two old men — a forester and a beekeeper. One of them is a romantic, who believes in miracles and other one is pragmatic. Each of them tells about "ikotka" — a specific illness, which affects women and is known from Karelia to the Ural. Local people call "ikotka" a creature which settles in a human body and spoils the life of it's owner.

Would you want to change your life once and for all? Surely, yes. But everything was holding you back. However, the family of circus artists with a beautiful surname Groll did it. They realized their dream: to live in the village in a beautiful place, far from civilization. They were looking for a place for their new life all over the world, and they found it in Russia. Did they find what they were looking for?

200 to 300 thousand years ago the banks of the river now called Kama were inhabited by mammoth’s and elephant’s ancestors. Presently fishermen have found the fossils of these in the steep banks of Kama. All of it started from there… In the film, you can see how the discovery of the trogonterii mammoth’s fossils became the center of the social initiative for people from the nearest villages and even the Krai’s administrative capital.

A short film based on Ray Bradbury's story "Veld". A student film by cameraman Sergey Lepikhin

If you take care to look down, you can find surprising things and surprising stories. An almanac shot in Moscow, Perm, Grozny and Wrocław (Poland).

A white-headed old man named Robert Belov, blind, feeble in body, but with a thunderous voice and an iron character openly hates any power. At the same time, he dearly loves poetry and people who are somehow connected with poetry. He loves the Perm prison region – where the authorities, without particularly delving into details, pushed poets and murderers. He writes a book of salty jokes about these people called "Perm region". In the company of random fellow travelers, he goes to Pasternak places in the Urals, forcing landscapes and voices to sound differently, and thereby creates an informal, lively guide to the Kama region.

The fate of the heroine of the film Olga Glazatova. The viewer gets to know her in the last weeks before her release from the general regime colony, where she gave birth to a daughter at the age of 18. The way of life, customs, customs of the women's zone, in which the painfully familiar features of our "free" life manifest themselves, where Olya is so eager, make up the background of the heroine's portrait. The warm, kind intonation of the film awakens what we all lack so much – sympathy.

This film is the fifth in a series of documentaries “The history of Perm cinema in faces.” The history of Perm animation began approximately in 1965, when Svetlana Mozhaeva created the first hand-drawn cartoon "Seven I". Gradually the animation workshop got time-lapse filming equipment and a staff of artists. The collective portrait of Perm animation is built with the participants’ stories from the “Permtelefilm” period of the distant 60-80s of the last century.

The evacuation of the Russian Museum during the Great Patriotic War is a little–known and dramatic episode of Russian history. The echelon with paintings by Repin, Levitan, Serov, Shishkin, Rublev icons and other priceless treasures in August 1941 reached Gorky from Leningrad. There, the valuables were reloaded onto a barge, which went deep into Russia. The destinations were the city of Molotov, as Perm was then called, and the city of Solikamsk. The film tells about how they lived in the evacuation, how they worked and why after the war the participants of these events did not want to remember those difficult times.