Aleksandr Filippenko

In 1937, amidst Stalin's Great Terror, a newly appointed prosecutor for the USSR is made aware of alleged corruption in the Secret Police, and takes it upon himself to investigate.

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The documentary is dedicated to the Strugatsky brothers, iconic Soviet writers who are still incredibly popular and relevant in Russia. There were queues for Strugatsky's books in the USSR, magazines with their stories were resold on the black market. The brothers were not dissidents: they began their writing career as convinced communists; the world of the future they described is the world of a communist utopia. It is all the more surprising that their entire creative biography is a fierce struggle against censorship. Which they lost.

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The end of the Soviet empire. The General Secretary lies in the government clinic. He is old and frail, but has a tight grip on power. "The power is only taken, it is never given away," he repeats. And it is convenient for both the elites and the secret services -- while the "body" is alive, various groups are scoring their political points. The General Secretary is "sentenced to life". A young nurse Sasha looks after him. Small, fragile and invisible, she bears a heavy burden of responsibility for the life of the country's top official. Meanwhile, the old man is waging a war in Afghanistan, has a nuclear button and can take the entire world to the grave with him.

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Some sporting victories are about more than just claiming a title. Some of them go down in history. The film follows the most dramatic and legendary showdown in the history of chess – the match between Anatoly Karpov, then world champion, and Viktor Korchnoi, a recent emigrant from the USSR. In this battle between two outstanding chess players, a duel of personalities under immense psychological pressure, the stakes are incomprehensibly high.

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The tape is dedicated to writer, publicist, long-term employee and editor-in-chief of the Russian service of Radio Liberty Peter Vail. Filming took place in New York, Prague and Venice. The film uses rare archive photo, video and audio materials. Vail's texts are read by Alexander Filippenko. Peter Weil died in December 2009. In 2014 he would have turned 65.

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Peter the Great: The Testament is a Russian TV series, made in 2011 and based on the novel by Daniil Granin's "Evenings with Peter the Great". The film was produced by Studio 2-B-2 entertainment and was shown on Rossiya 1, the Russian TV channel.

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The Master is a talented writer in Moscow working on a manuscript about Jesus and Pontius Pilate. The Moscow authorities are harassing Master by surveillance and intimidation. His assistant and muse, Margarita, tries to help the Master through the supernatural powers she got from the devil, Woland, who is visiting Moscow.

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The private part of a young man leaves the owner and starts his own adventure...

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The fate of Diego Rivera, a Mexican muralist who glorified the Mexican Revolution with his art, is connected with Russia in many ways. Russian artists Angelina Belova and Maria Vorobyova-Stebelskaya bore him children, for a long time he was friends with Trotsky, joined the Communist Party several times, was friends with Eisenstein, Mayakovsky, Ehrenburg. Finally, it was to Soviet Russia that he came in the last years of his life in the hope of being cured of cancer. This film is about Diego Rivera and how, 50 years later, his legacy is seen.

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This fairy tale takes place on the New Year's Eve. Elka, a polar bear cub, finds a Magic Tunnel of Friendship near his home. This Tunnel connects the Northern and the Southern Poles. With the help of the Tunnel, Elka gets a friend - a penguin girl Tasha. She tells Elka that Antarctica, her motherland, is in a great danger, since evil people have been stealing the snow which is almost all gone by now. Elka and Tasha leave immediately to save Antarctica. At the Southern Pole, the brave polar bear cub and the little penguin will find true friends and experience the most unbelievable adventure of their lives. Written by Tatiana Didusenko

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Brothers Stas and Kostya find themselves in 2506 as the prisoners of Space Prison then get in touch with the unusual people of the future to play a strange game with them. Later, they are captured by the fantastic sphinx Shidla who guards them from various dangers. Further, the brothers keep moving in their time machine and their next stop is Ancient Egypt.

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The Master and Margarita is a Russian television production of Telekanal Rossiya, based on the novel The Master and Margarita, written by Soviet writer Mikhail Bulgakov between 1928 and 1940. Vladimir Bortko directed this adaptation and was also its screenwriter.

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Russia is at the dawn of great changes and the fate of a young man, Pyotr Cherkasov, who was forced to sacrifice his personal happiness to save the Motherland. In the center of events are bright and interesting characters, whose personal life history is woven into the history of European life. The interweaving of love lines, betrayal, jealousy, intrigue, exposing the enemies of Russia and the world order. Napoleon Bonaparte hatches plans to take over all of Europe. One of the most terrible wars in national history is approaching. In the meantime, the Russian people live in peace and ignorance. With the arrival of Prince Kuragin, the life of Peter changes forever. Emperor Paul I needs the best people to help Russia unravel Napoleon's insidious plans, and Kuragin, seeing Cherkasov's talents, invites him to go to St. Petersburg for military service. Cherkasov agrees, and now his life belongs to the Motherland.

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The first part of Bulat Mansurov's planned epic film series; “The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars". Tells the story of pagan Rus' during the time of Prince Igor, his murder by the Drevlyans, Olga's revenge, Olga's repentance and adoption of Christianity.

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A fairy tale from the cycle "Mountain of gems" about how Ivan sold a goat and guarded the door, but suddenly married a princess.

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My Fair Nanny is a Russian comedy television series based on the American television sitcom, The Nanny.

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Poor Nastya is a Russian telenovela originally aired from 31 October 2003 to 30 April 2004 on the STS. Based on the imperial setting of the 19th century, the series reached international success and was shown in Ukraine, China, Israel, Serbia, Georgia, Greece, Bulgaria and more than twenty countries worldwide. With the budget of $11,8million, it is the most expensive Russian television project of all time. The sequel was planned, but had not been made yet.

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What should I do if life has failed? What should I do if my daughter's happiness depends on the future visit of the groom — the heir of the Spanish grandee? What should I do if the groom's father is obsessed with titles and wealth? The only way out is to turn into a rich lady for the day. Street vendor Ani, with the help of her many friends and acquaintances, cannot help but cope with this task. A brothel owner and a young conman, a judge and the mayor of New York himself are involved in an incredible cycle of events. They play out a whole performance in front of the groom and his father against the backdrop of skyscrapers, cars with horns, women's lace umbrellas and incendiary jazz melodies, and in this gala performance Anya plays the role of a real socialite…

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Tartarin is the local hero in the small provincial town of Tarascon. He shows off about imaginary adventures in Africa, where he has never been, as a Lion Hunter, which he is only in his imagination. But one day he becomes a real hero...

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The story of the last year and a half of Tsar Nicholas II and his family from the February Revolution of 1917 to their execution in July 1918.

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Russian game show based on the original French format of Fort Boyard.

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XII century. The Prince of Suzdal Yuri Dolgoruky is trying to unite the Russian lands

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When the powerful of this world give a small scoundrel the opportunity to become a big scoundrel - how many opportunities there are for a funny comedy...

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Upon returning from a business trip, Pavel Antoshin learns from his wife that she wants to leave him. The man is shocked by this news, because it happened after twenty years of marriage. But Pavel was even more surprised that his wife offered him her girl friend instead.

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Bandits kill Sergei in front of his wife and son. The son of the murdered man loses the power of speech. Nadezhda, Sergei's wife, is also unable to bear the blow. The murder of her husband literally stands before her eyes day and night. The militia, as it seems to Nadezhda, acts slowly and ineffectively and she passes the sentence herself and decides to execute it...

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Based on Clifford Simak's story "All Flesh is Grass". In the small settlement strange things lately are created, and soon the settlement is cut off from the outside world by an insuperable wall. The scientist Alexander Kartin tries to investigate the unusual phenomenon.

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Elena Meshcheryakova is a veterinarian at an animal clinic. One day, she spots a stranger in a crowd who leaves an unforgettable impression on her. But how can she gather the courage to simply approach him and introduce herself? Fate intervenes when he shows up at the clinic, wanting to get rid of his dog. Elena refuses to put the poor animal down and instead takes it in herself. As events unfold, Elena ends up in a hospital where the head psychiatrist happens to be a friend of the man she fell for. It is he who ultimately helps her find happiness.

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Professor Ian Drummond, whose new invention was of interest to the Russians and Americans, is murdered at his Sunshine Menor mansion in full attendance. The writer Joe Alex, who arrived on the eve of the murder together with actress Sarah, and detective Ben Parker, before figuring out the true killer, will suspect in the crime each of those present, because each had a reason for it and there was evidence against each of them.

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The director's story about his life in the Soviet Union before his departure to Israel in 1971. The movie interweaves chronicle-documentary footage and fragments of Mikhail Kalik's films.

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