Movies: Sergey Kalvarsky

A portrait of Naum Kleiman — film scholar, historian, and sage. In conversation with him, a vast cultural landscape unfolds, where Pushkin meets Godard, Sokurov, Dionysius, Eisenstein, Snyders, Glass, Ozu, and many others. Kleiman reveals the simplic...

Grisha, an official from the committee for the protection of cultural heritage sites, has an ideal plan — to carefully kidnap the boss on New Year's Eve in order to make a deal with another shopping center in the city center himself. Grisha has provi...

Brother and son, it was only yesterday that he came back from the army. Only his sister is at home, his mother is wandering somewhere as usual. But the man, who has come back, has changed completely....

Andrei, a Russian nobleman, flesh and blood of the enlightened nineteenth century, volunteers to go to war to go through it together with the people. The fighting takes place in the middle of the merciless Russian winter. And the noble goal unexpecte...

A young woman is engaged to a much older truck driver who promises to build a house for the two of them. A film in the Cabardino language....

After the funeral of his young wife Asi, David tries to cope with the loss. The condolences of his friends and the reproachful words of her relatives do not seem to make any impression on him. Suddenly Asya appears on the threshold of the apartment. ...

He wakes her up in the mornings and brings her coffee to bed. She does not notice his embarrassment and takes his efforts for granted. Trying to find answers to his questions he turns to strangers though an open-hearted talk with her would be suffici...

Alexander and Ivan are sound engineers; a rattling train took them to Transbaikalia. They thought that this would be another expedition, that they would record the necessary surrounding sounds and, having done their job, would return home. Their main...

The St. Petersburg printing house of the Academy of Sciences has served the cause of education since 1727. Her presses produced the first editions of Pushkin, Lomonosov, Euler, Derzhavin, Likhachev... She was lucky to survive into our century....

A team of talented and cheerful people have come together to realize an ambitious idea – to create giant puppets of Russian writers. The process of bringing the puppets to life takes on the character of an unusual experiment, going beyond the traditi...