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The Cheesecake
Genre: psychological thriller
Production director: Eugene Zvezdakov
Annotation: a:2:{s:4:"TEXT";s:344:"Three people unacquainted with each other, an actress Natasha, a doctor Mikhail and a thirteen year old boy Alesha, starred in the commercial "Cheesecake". A father, a mother and a son are drinking tea at the cozy dining table. The mother passes the son a piece of cheesecake on a plate. All of them are smiling at each other, they are happy … ";s:4:"TYPE";s:4:"TEXT";}
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The New Year Tariff Rate
Genre: new-year romantic comedy
Production director: Evgeniy Bedarev
Annotation: a:2:{s:4:"TEXT";s:306:"If there is a love at first sight, who said that there can’t be love from the first words!? After all on the New Year's Eve even the most intimate dreams come true. Having dialed a wrong number, Andrey accidentally makes a phone call …to the past and falls in love at hearing a voice of an unfamiliar girl.";s:4:"TYPE";s:4:"TEXT";}
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EVERYBODY DIES BUT ME
Genre: psychological drama
Production director: Valeria Guy Germanika
Annotation: a:2:{s:4:"TEXT";s:283:"Three ninth-graders – Katya, Vika and Zhanna – are quite ordinary girls from a sleeping district of Moscow. One Monday they learn that a school disco is scheduled for Saturday, the first one in the new academic year. They spend the week preparing for this major event in their lives";s:4:"TYPE";s:4:"TEXT";}
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TRAVELLING WITH PETS
Genre: drama
Production director: Vera Storojeva
Annotation: But she cannot imagine a different life, either. Until one day he dies. Having buried her husband, Natalia learns to live on her own, trying to figure out who she is and what she wants to be happy. She gets company: Koschey the dog, Bertha the goat, a color TV and Sergei the driver, who begins to court her.
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The Gooseberry
Genre: romance
Production director: Arvo Iho
Annotation: a:2:{s:4:"TEXT";s:668:"The plot of the film takes place in 1980, the day the Olympic Games were closing. Boris is an avant-garde artist. Having graduated from the Surikov college and worked in the Academy of Arts, he becomes «an antisocial element» who should be expelled from the capital during the Olympic Games. So, the two militiamen are searching streets for people while the soundtrack «I’ll get out on a long distant station» is playing. About a dozen of outcasts, drunks, hookers and dangerous "artists" get on the bus that leaves Moscow to the song «All life is ahead, just hope and wait». Boris manages to jump off the escorted bus and escape; he hides in a shed of a country lot. ";s:4:"TYPE";s:4:"TEXT";}
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The “May”
Genre: romance story
Production director: Ilya Rubinstein, Marat Rafikov
Annotation: a:2:{s:4:"TEXT";s:335:"On the eve of the Victory Day a senior lieutenant and a soldier in the Chechen war, Pechalin, departs on leave to Moscow. Before his departure the battalion commander assigns a task to bring new recruits, to help around, and to find a girlfriend already. According to the battalion commander, the girl must know «the cultural program».";s:4:"TYPE";s:4:"TEXT";}
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The Russian Rebellion
Genre: historical drama
Production director: Alexander Proshkin
Annotation: Pyotr Andreyich Grinyov was only sixteen years old when he found the answer to the most important question in his life. The rebelled Cossack and the commander of a many thousands army demanded Grinev, the imperial officer, to take an oath and be loyal to him; but not so long time ago Grinev wasn't even called Pyotr Andriyovych. They called him Petrusha and asked him in detail what would he order for dinner and desert. Nobody asked to develop his personality and moral qualities. From time to time lessons with his French tutor were coming down to the point where Petrusha himself were teaching grammar the most pretty servant maids during a break between other more fascinating occupations
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24 hours
Genre: criminal / drama
Production director: Aleksandr Atanesyan
Annotation: They have everything that they could wish for. Almost. Money, comfort, connections and power. Everything, except confidence in their future. At any time each of them may end up in the crosshairs. At any point the car can blow up and an explosive device can go off right after a friend called on the mobile phone. At any moment each of them can get involved in a deadly chase without a right to choose whether to be a hunter or a game, or become both at the same time.
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Not recommended to mess with women
Genre: romance
Production director: Valeri Akhadov
Annotation: a:2:{s:4:"TEXT";s:431:"… The owners of big companies at the age of about forty years old are the last people to put their faith into miracles. Especially former school teachers. They know for sure that you can count only on yourself; that the future doesn't look promising. Fortunately, life fulfills our expectations more often than not, but strong women won’t admit it even to themselves: they happen to meet unexpectedly their true, long-awaited love.";s:4:"TYPE";s:4:"TEXT";}
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Give me the moonlight
Genre: romance
Production director: Dmitri Astrakhan
Annotation: a:2:{s:4:"TEXT";s:386:"There is no need to explain the background of the title “Give me the moonlight” to those who wore bell-bottomed trousers, tight shirts and miniskirts. It is a line from the romantic smash hit of the 70-s that was played on every dance floor. For the main character of the film, a TV host Sergey Kupriyanov, and his wife this song is connected with the beginning of their love story.
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LUNNY PAPA (THE MOON DAD)
Genre: tragic comedy
Production director: Bakhtier Khudoynazarov
Annotation: Near a multi-colored sea, in the colorful village of Far-Khor, there lived a girl named Mamlakat. She was very young and very beautiful. More than anything else, Mamlakat loved theater. The real actors seemed to her the most interesting creatures in the world. One day, after the show, she happened to meet a man who introduced himself as an actor.
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Dying is easy
Genre: thriller
Production director: Aleksandr Khvan
Annotation: a:2:{s:4:"TEXT";s:497:"No one likes being watched through a window of the opposite house, especially, being photographed! It can enrage anybody, even such an amicable girl as Lisa. And it’s a small wonder that she came into the mansard of the impudent stalker with an extendable baton in her hands. She didn´t have a chance to use it though: instead she had to save this guy´s from the suicide, moreover both to console, and to tell that she likes him. And the most amazing thing is that she wasn´t lying…";s:4:"TYPE";s:4:"TEXT";}
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The Admirer
Genre: suspenser
Production director: Nikolay Lebedev
Annotation: a:2:{s:4:"TEXT";s:138:"«Never talk to strangers …», - says an author of a wise book who knew precisely that God works in mysterious ways more often than we know.";s:4:"TYPE";s:4:"TEXT";}
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The Mother
Genre: drama
Production director: Denis Yevstigneyev
Annotation: The eldest of five Yuryev brothers is a bit more than 30 years old; he has spent fifteen years of his life in a mental hospital. The juniors also did their time in special schools or in prison camps. They also happened to become brothers in crime which incited and committed their own mother.
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The Recluse
Genre: detective
Production director: Egor Konchalovsky
Annotation: a:2:{s:4:"TEXT";s:610:"Works of the well-known writer Konstantin Streletsky are mysterious. Dozen of his detective novels become best-sellers and invade bookshops, his stories are being willingly translated into foreign languages. But the writer is even more mysterious, than the created characters of his books. He is lonely and inapproachable. Almost nothing is known about his private life. He lives like a recluse in his country manor and even his own literary agent cannot always enter there. For quite some time the famous writer hasn’t been using the services of his personal driver, now he doesn't even let anyone in his car.";s:4:"TYPE";s:4:"TEXT";}
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EAST-WEST
Genre: drama/ romance
Production director: Regis Wargnier
Annotation: After World War II, a steamship is taking the Russian émigré Alexei Golovin, his French wife and son back to his mother country, the Soviet Union.
The successful doctor and his wife are full of hope. Like the many other emigrants who left Russia after the 1917 revolution, he is returning not to the country of the Bolsheviks but to the country which has defeated fascism.
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The Rifleman of the Voroshilov Regiment
Genre: crime drama
Annotation: a:2:{s:4:"TEXT";s:807:"When Gleb Zheglov, a character of the well-known movie, filmed by Stanislav Govorukhin, said that «the thief has to be imprisoned», nobody of his contemporaries doubted in the righteousness of this statement and that the criminal would be punished. A character of the new Govorukhin’s film, an old worker and war veteran named Ivan Fedorovich (Mikhail Ulyanov) has personal knowledge that today criminals remain unapprehended. The three young men raped his granddaughter for their own entertainment and went unpunished. It was easy to do so, because one of the criminal participants was the son of a powerful high rank militia officer. Guys were dead sure that they would get away with the abuse of a young girl, Katya. Three gits continued to have a good time, still arranging a "female" day on Wednesdays.";s:4:"TYPE";s:4:"TEXT";}
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The Two moons, three sons
Genre: drama
Production director: Roman Balayan
Annotation: a:2:{s:4:"TEXT";s:913:"This story takes place in Moscow nowadays where an archeologist Aleksey is a step away from getting his PHD in science. He is a charming young man with southern blood in his veins. All of a sudden a great misfortune befalls his serene life: his younger brother, who fought with separatists, perishes at war. Being completely stressed out Aleksey founds out that his brother died at the hand of a contract soldier who lives in Moscow; Aleksey tracks the murderer down in a yard of his house. There he gets acquainted with a neighbor of the contract employee, a young woman named Vera. Soon they start an affair. Vera does her best to ease his pain that torches Aleksey since the day he learnt the truth about his brother’s death. Nevertheless, when our hero goes to the length of murder, the fate deals everything in its own way. The contract soldier commits a suicide; Vera almost dies trying to shield Aleksey...";s:4:"TYPE";s:4:"TEXT";}
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I want to be in prison
Genre: comedy
Production director: Alla Surikova
Annotation: a:2:{s:4:"TEXT";s:539:"«On the wide road in tundra the train Vorkuta-Amsterdam dashes on», - sings desperately a short plumpish person in a knitted "beanie" hat.
His strong voice spreads through sterile walls of incredibly comfortable Holland prison, where two alarmed prison guards walk him holding his hands hard but politely and listening attentively to the sounds of an unfamiliar song. Why would the exemplary Russian prisoner named Lyamkin start to “kick up a rumpus” all of a sudden? Just when he was supposed to be released early for impact working?
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The circus burnt out and all the clowns took a run
Genre: drama
Production director: Vladimir Bortko
Annotation: a:2:{s:4:"TEXT";s:613:"A film director Nicolay Hudokormov is on the eve of his fiftieth birthday. He has a rich life full of events under his belt: artistic quests, numerous marriages, children who have become alienated. It seems that Nicolay crossed the line and everything appears to be insignificant, uninteresting and incurious. It's all over the hill now. He is broke, he is indifferent to his own life and his old mother is almost insane living in some other world. But one thought haunts Nicolay’s mind. He must shoot his best film. And though the scenario exists only in his mind, he believes that it will be a remarkable film. ";s:4:"TYPE";s:4:"TEXT";}
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TRI ISTORII (THREE STORIES)
Genre: criminal drama
Production director: Kira Muratova
Annotation: A collection of three stories united by the theme of violent death without detective and psychological implications. The killing is being stated or shown, without being investigated and penalized.
Boiler #6 An decent-looking man comes into the boiler room to see his friend. Then he persuades him to use in the furnace for burning the corpse of his lady neighbor whom he killed in an argument...
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The Fatherless
Genre: comedy / romance
Production director: Vladimir Mashkov
Annotation: a:2:{s:4:"TEXT";s:349:"A young teacher Nastya in order to find her farther after her mother’s death publishes an unsent letter of her mother to someone named Pavel. She could not even think that on the New Years Eve three no ordinary men under this name would show up in her village. However it is not easy for the groom, Kolyan: now his bride has three "fathers" at once…";s:4:"TYPE";s:4:"TEXT";}
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VOR (THE THIEF)
Genre: drama
Production director: Pavel Chukhray
Annotation: The action takes place in post-war time and in present days. The film's protagonist is child, then a grown-up man and soldier. In 1952, Sanya, aged six, and his mother Katerina ride on the train. Their casual companion, military officer named Anatoly (Tolyan), charms both Katerina and Sanya. Katerina and Anatoly decide to stay together.
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