Eduard Volodarskiy

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Drama of the penalty parts of political prisoners, who fought on the Soviet fronts.

The year is 1915. Europe is engulfed in the flames of the First World War. At this time, the revolutionary theorist, political emigrant and adventurer Alexander Parvus is holding talks with the German Foreign Minister, Gottlieb von Jagow. The negotiations end with unexpected success. The German government personally allocates "a lot of money" to Parvus, which should go to the revolution in Russia. This is the beginning of a story that tells not only about the life of this extraordinary man and his role in the historical events that ended in October 1917.

On the threshold of 22nd century, furrowing the space, protagonist from the Free Search Group makes emergency landing on an unknown planet where he must stay. People who are living on this planet have remained at the stone level of the 20th century, with its social problems, miserable ecology and shaky world..

Based on the Valentin Pikul's novel "Bayazet".

Four present-day Russian men dig for Nazi memorabilia at a WWII battlefield. A wormhole lake sends them back to a battle in 1942 USSR.

The plot takes place in 1942-1943, during the defense of Stalingrad. The Jew Viktor Strum is a talented nuclear physicist working in one of the country's institutes on the creation of an atomic bomb. At this time, Strum's relatives die in Nazi camps and NKVD dungeons, and persecution begins against him. The inventor can only be saved by his scientific brainchild, which Stalin himself became interested in. The state needs such a powerful weapon as an atomic bomb. The scientist has to make a choice: to remain faithful to science and work for the "leader of the nation" or to abandon his vocation and be destroyed.

Russian Translation (Русский перевод) is a 2007 Russian miniseries based on Andrey Konstantinov's 1996 novel about Soviet military advisors and translators in the 1980s, specifically in Arab countries like Yemen and Libya.

Biopic covering a large portion of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky's life, from the Petrashevsky Circle to the writing of The Brothers Karamazov.

The events of the film unfold first on the territory of China, in Manchuria, then transferred to the USSR, have an extensive geographical area: from Harbin to Leningrad, and cover the period from 1928 to 1953. The plot is based on the complex, full of dramatic events, the fate of a man — Boris, the son of an employee of the Chinese-Eastern Railway.

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In the country of materialists, Messing is listed as a hypnotist and magician, he is both an experimenter and a test subject, and unofficially becomes Stalin’s own astrologer. He survived two dictators and remained here as an “unusual magician,” a strange predictor whose predictions invariably came true. Wolf Messing kept secrets that there was no one to share with him, secrets that died with him. But the greatest secret was himself, the genius and charlatan Wolf Messing.

This is the very first feature to have ever told the story of the Russian revolutionary Chapaev in such a gripping and heart-stirring manner. The series takes us through the thorny days of the national hero as the numerous layers of love and hate, pride and shame, great victory and inconsolable loss unfold. The abundance of action and raw emotion enlighten the viewer about the innumerable twists and turns on the path to the final victory of the Red Army and Chapaev's agonizing solitude.

Maxim Kammerer fights for his love and freedom. He leads a rebel movement challenging the five greedy rulers. One of the rulers, Strannik, knows how dangerous Maxim can be. He makes up his mind to stop the young man at any cost. The last close fight will decide everything.

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The dramatic life story of singer Pyotr Leshchenko (1898-1954), a legendary performer of romances, tango, Russian folk and gypsy songs.

A military epic based on Ivan Stadnyuk's novel of the same name about the tragic events of the first months of the WWII.

Shot in 1971 but banned until 1986, this distinctly Russian war story takes place in 1942 behind enemy lines. A regiment of partisans captures former Red Army lieutenant Lazarev who is dressed in a German uniform. He’s a Nazi defector and collaborator but now desires to switch back and fight with Russian partisans.

The Russian Empire entered the twentieth century as one of the most powerful world powers. Russia was in danger from rapidly developing countries that were eager to redistribute the world, but an even greater danger was posed by the revolutionary movement within the empire. After the granting of freedoms, a new generation grew up, wanting more and ready to use any means for their own purposes. But new leaders of the new era have also emerged. One of them is Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin, who became the youngest governor of Russia, earning the gratitude of Emperor Nicholas II for this post.