Pavel Ivanov

The film is divided into two distinct stories with the same setting: the back-stage of the Moscow Operetta theater with the Can-Can metaphor which is a high-energy and physically demanding dance. Human relationships, betrayals, and the relationship between parents and children are the same common denominator found in the two parts of the film.

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Imagine a mix of Repo Man, Oliver! and Pinocchio and you're on the road to grasping the tone of this bizarre Estonian take on Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy's character Buratino, a wooden boy (or boyus woodenus, as the doctors in the film refer to him). Buratino's virginal mother wishes upon a star for a son and is immediately answered by what can only be called a rape-splinter. The woman gives birth almost immediately to her little wooden Buratino.

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Sergei and Simon have to deliver a suitcase full of heroin to Mikhalych or else they will be killed. There is one minor detail: the only problem-solving technique they are familiar with is a shot in the head.

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About how Little Fox, Father Fox and Crow helped the snowman not to melt.

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About how the Hedgehog, the Little Fox and the Crow went to the Land of Happiness. But it turned out that happiness is nearby, in everyday life, and you don't have to go far for it.

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A single woman's and her dog's personalities are affected by tough life circumstances.

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Information about the upcoming coup d'etat falls into the hands of a TV reporter. At his own risk, he begins an investigation...

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In the years of his Komsomol youth, the first builders of the city laid out a public garden. And now they strongly object to the decision of the city council to divide the garden into garden plots...

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A group of "friends" are trying to solve a mysterious death of a factory director - and find the money he stole from them.

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The new secretary of the NPP party committee is fighting against high results' progress in equipment operation.

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Three youngsters have to take command of a space flight when their adult captain comes down sick and is forced to quarantine himself.

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A television play based on the eponymous poem, letters, and other works by Alexander Pushkin.

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Mikhail Nikolaevich Ermakov has come a long and difficult life path. At the age of nineteen, the student, the son of a worker, was sent on a Komsomol ticket to work in the Cheka. In one of the operations he was seriously wounded. And now, many years later, General Ermakov comes to Moscow and settles in the house where he spent his youth...

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Mikhail Nikolaevich Ermakov has come a long and difficult life path. At the age of nineteen, the student, the son of a worker, was sent on a Komsomol ticket to work in the Cheka. In one of the operations he was seriously wounded. And now, many years later, General Ermakov comes to Moscow and settles in the house where he spent his youth...

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Based on the play by Estonian playwright Hans Luik. The action takes place in Petrograd on the eve of the October Revolution.

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Based on the eponymous novel by A.I. Herzen.

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The basis of the play is the eponymous poem and the poems of Alexander Blok.

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A story about a few days during the defense of Kiev at the beginning of WWII.

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1918. After the death of the mother, the father decides to take the children to Moscow to see a distant relative. On the way, the guys experience a raid by a White Guard gang on a train, the death of their father, and meet the homeless child Yashka, who brings a plan to Lenin - how to destroy all the bourgeoisie and all the counter-propaganda in one day. The boys become involved in revolutionary events, and ahead is Moscow, a chance meeting and conversation with Lenin and Dzerzhinsky, the fight against counter-revolution...

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