Rodion Chepel

A new crisis in a few days rewrote all plans, canceled business, destroyed dreams. How have we changed and our ideas about the world? What will happen next? Will it happen again? There are two views on the situation here: from April and August 2020. And the five key topics are work, family, medicine, debts, and the second wave of the epidemic. Journalists Alexander Urzhanov and Igor Makarov, together with experts, entrepreneurs and ordinary people, understand the new reality.

The "Afghan syndrome" is the diagnosis of the last generation of Soviet people. This is one of the reasons for the death of the country in which they lived. Since then, Afghanistan has become no stranger to us — and remains so decades later. We perceive any news and stories from there as concerning us. Only after studying the Afghan epic — from the party meetings of the seventies to the mountain code of honor "Pashtunvalai" — can we understand what kind of society we live in today.

"Local" is a unique opportunity to get acquainted with the life of the city, which you cannot see if you follow the routes from the guidebooks. Three characters act as "guides" in each episode — these are people who strive to make the city better and therefore know exactly what makes up its soul, and what is just a cover for tourists.

The first biography of Pavel Durov, the creator of the social network VKontakte and the Telegram messenger told by his close circle. The biography of a person who claims to protects your privacy, but in fact - protects his own.

Investigation of the causes of death of Vladislav Listyev. 25 years passed, but the perpetrators of the highest-profile contract murder in Russia in the 1990s were not found. Or didn’t you want to? Or found, but silent? Rodion decided to conduct his investigation. He wants to know the name of the customer. Six months of work, dozens of interviews with colleagues, friends and relatives of Listyev, investigators who conducted the case. And everyone answers the main question: who killed Vlad Listyev?

Performers, composers, producers and music video makers talk about one of the musical five-year plans through the stages of development of the country and culture, and the audience will have the opportunity to see the process of creating musical hits and archival recordings.

Where are the boundaries of permissible self-defense when it comes to the civilian use of firearms? Does a person who is not going to use it need a weapon? The author's investigation helps to take an objective look at all these issues, to study in detail the position of people who have somehow encountered the use of firearms in everyday life.

In recent years, Viktor Pelevin has been releasing a novel every year, each with a circulation of about 100 thousand copies - this is one of the best results in the country. At the same time, he has not given interviews for almost 20 years, does not appear in public and, according to rumors, does not live in Russia. Film director Rodion Chepel makes an attempt to combat hoaxes. To do this, he studied the archives, the early works of Viktor Pelevin and interviewed people who knew him.

Today, everyone calls themselves “coaches” - unsuccessful traders, housewives and even criminal adventurers. They collect ten thousand dollars, their accounts contain nine zeros, and increasingly coaches become heroes of criminal chronicles. How to distinguish a real coach from an information gypsy, which of them will really help solve your problem, and which will just take your money? Ksenia Sobchak will try the coaching industry for herself.

An oligarch who is allowed to do anything. The owner of an escort agency. A businessman convicted of sexualized violence. What do they have in common? The fact that they are all clients of the sex services market. It is the customers who form the demand for sex for money. But do they understand this?

They give hope for healing, a profitable marriage, quick millions, but leave people with empty pockets and in complete disbelief. Seven stories about people who posed as rich people, life teachers and brilliant doctors — and were able to make money on it.

Frank accounts from eyewitnesses — a former police officer who worked with “night butterflies,” a Soviet prostitute, and a catering worker with over a hundred romantic stories behind her — are intertwined with analysis from experts such as historian Lev Lurye, sociologist Elena Zdravomyslova, and sex blogger Arina Kholina. They help the viewer better understand how the legacy of the Soviet era is reflected in the intimate lives of people today.

A story about the work of the elite segment of the sex industry in modern Russia on behalf of the representatives of the illegal business themselves.

Raisa Gorbachev, Nancy Reagan, Jacqueline Kennedy, Margaret Thatcher. Their names have been in the same row for a long time. This film is a bold attempt to rethink the role of Raisa Gorbacheva in the history of modern Russia. How did a girl from a simple village grow into one of the main humanists of the 20th century, revolutionizing many areas of the country's life? Why exactly do we owe reforms in education, medicine and culture to Raisa Maksimovna? What thoughts and ideas voiced by her are still relevant?

The history of the beginning and flourishing of domestic computer technology and cybernetics in the 1950s-1960s. About a utopia that almost came true. Automation and cybernetization were even written into the Third Program of the CPSU in 1961. It was called the "Program for Building Communism", and it promised that in 20 years a communist society would be built in the USSR, free from exploitation, from want, from class contradictions, giving every person every opportunity for creative self-realization, based on the principle "from each according to abilities, to each according to his needs. The creators of this utopia, the carriers of a reasonable creative principle were scientists and engineers-cybernetics.

A life-affirming film-journey into the world of Nikolai Drozdov, which will be loved by those who grew up watching “In the Animal World” and those for whom he is the charming grandfather from the Gucci campaign.

A year has passed since the presidential elections in Belarus, when the current government harshly suppressed protests against falsified results. Thousands of people are still in prisons, tens of thousands were forced to go abroad. Among the new emigrants there are politicians, they are even called the government in exile. And there are ordinary citizens who could not even imagine that they would ever have to leave their homeland. The film tells how this Belarus lives, a huge community of migrants that has emerged over the past year. The stories of the heroes add up to a chronicle of what is happening in their country after the elections on August 9, 2020.

In 2011, 26-year-old Galina Kolyadzinskaya disappeared in Vladivostok. A few years later, her boyfriend, Victor Cohen, was convicted of her murder. At the same time, the investigation did not prove that the girl died, and her whole family is sure that Galina is alive, and Viktor is innocent.

For us, Beslan ended 10 years ago, for them it has just begun. On September 1, 2004, the four heroines of the film lost everything, and the world learned about the existence of the North Ossetian city of Beslan. In a few months, they will create a committee of the "Mother of Beslan" to fight for an honest investigation of the terrorist attack at school No. 1. At first, they did not allow the dilapidated school to be razed to the ground, then they knocked out money for the treatment and rehabilitation of hundreds of victims, blocked roads, clashed with the investigation — but none of them expected that this would drag on for many years, and hope for justice would melt much faster. Rodion Chepel's film "The Committee"- this is a private story of four women, which turns into a political thriller, a judicial drama, or a chronicle of merciless indifference. The heroines of this film have never been silent. We just didn't listen to them—or didn't want to hear them.

The Champions League final. A grandiose event in the world of football, where everyone can not only enjoy the game, but also earn a huge sum by making a successful bet. But is it really possible to beat the bookmaker and hit the jackpot, or will the score always be against you? The main character knows the answer, who calls himself an Angel and carefully hides his identity under a mask.