Aleksandr Semchev

With fairy-tale inhabitants, everything is the same as with people - when a marriage breaks up, Resentment remains... That is the name of the daughter of the powerful magicians Bolotnitsa and Chernogor, who divorced but continue to share power over the child. On the day of Resentment's coming of age, it turns out that she is deprived of the magical power that was supposed to be inherited from her parents. To fix the situation, Resentment urgently needs to find a groom in the human world, have a wedding and sacrifice the person - turn him into a tree... Together with Resentment, her mysterious friend, Chudo Yudo, goes to the human world. He can transform into anyone: a bird, an animal, and even a handsome prince.

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The provincial bandit of Vorkuta lived under the motto "We are not like that ― life is like that," but in 1999 the dashing 90s ended, and he received a sentence. In prison, he lost sleep, and after a couple of weeks of insomnia, he saw his conscience in the form of a man who said that as long as he was bad, he would not sleep.

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Incorruptible customs officer Sveta Suvorova has always been too principled for a small town where everything is decided "by friendship". At least until the Finnish mafia kidnapped her husband. There is a chance to get him back, but for this Sveta will have to forget about her principles and make a deal with her conscience.

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The story of one day - August 12, 2012. The Earl's Court Exhibition Center in London is filled with fans. Millions of viewers around the world are waiting for the start of the broadcast of the final volleyball game among men's teams, which will determine the winner of the XXX Olympic Games. The Russian team that has never won gold. And the Brazilian national team, caressed by contracts, victories and loyal fans. Many people think that the outcome of the game is predetermined. But few people yet know what place this final occupies in the life of each of the Russian athletes.

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On the advice of doctors, Irina's parents send their daughter to figure skating classes so that she gets stronger and gains strength, but Irina finds her dream and purpose in the sport. Completely absorbed by her incredible determination and complete dedication, Irina ends up in the CSKA figure skating school, where what distinguishes her from other athletes is fully revealed - incredible fortitude and thirst for victory.

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In a kingdom shrouded in darkness, the malevolent VileGuile seized power, casting a wicked enchantment over the Queen and imprisoning the blind little princess, Darya, within the Enchanted Tinderbox. Fate intervenes as the box finds its way into the hands of the carefree roisterer Johnny whose only dream was to live an easy life. Travelling with Darya, John undergoes a profound transformation. His once-selfish nature gives way to courage and generosity, evolving into a true hero. Alongside their faithful companions, the merry aeronaut Jean and the magical horse Good Pathfinder, John and Darya's journey takes them to the sombre caves of dwarf miners, where they forge the unbreakable friendship, and to the ethereal sky kingdom of magic ladybirds, leading John to understanding the boundless power of love and self-sacrifice.

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The year is 1953. Due to the mass amnesty, the criminal situation in the USSR is tense. At the same time, Ivan Astafyev, a former commander of a reconnaissance platoon, who was released from prison, returns to his hometown of Gorky. And immediately becomes a victim of an attack by bandits, and then a false accusation of beating the attackers. Ivan's pre—war acquaintance, Captain Shvedov, helps out of trouble, who gets him a job at the Dynamo sports society to train policemen in hand-to-hand combat.

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Sergiy and Katya will have to fight against the ferocious folklore evil spirits - the genetically modified Serpent Gorynych, a gang of brownies who terrorize people, and also repulse Viy himself, who is trying to take power into his own hands. They will continue their personal struggle: Katya will try to rid Sergius of very bad habits, and Sergius will try to melt Katya's heart.

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The October Revolution hadn't happened, and the Bolsheviks had never risen to power. The year is 2023, and the rule over the Russian Empire is divided between tzar Nikolai III and a forward-thinking PM, Dmitry Orlov. Erast Fandorin, a 20-year-old police servant, has just been hired in the criminal investigations unit at the Petrograd Metro. His job is not that exciting, but the latest news is: right at the heart of the capital, a young and wealthy oil company tycoon has just shot himself in front of dozens of men. His suicide was captured on the patrol robot cameras. Fandorin can't help but suspect that this case is far more complicated than it looks and takes on his very first major investigation

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A modern reinterpretation of the feature film magazine "WICK", produced since the early 60s of the USSR. Each issue includes three satirical fiction novels about the most relevant topics in Russia and in the world.

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Figure skater Katya suffers because of her father, who is a real domestic tyrant. After his unexpected death, she comes to Moscow to train with a tough coach and take part in the World Championships. She may have the opportunity to get a grant and gain long-awaited freedom for herself and her little sister.

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The picture is dedicated to the exploits of the Soviet underground fighters and partisans who heroically fought against the German invaders during the Great Patriotic War. The image of the main character of the railway worker Ales Arlovich is collective, but it is based on the fate of the Soviet underground fighter Fyodor Krylovich, who committed the largest land sabotage of the Second World War at the Osipovichi railway station.

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Romantic John the Fool and his friend Foal set out on a series of unpredictable adventures in different magical worlds. The two buddies will have to outsmart an evil tyrant king, catch the firebird, and find John’s true love.

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Peace and tranquility have set in Belogorie. The evil was defeated and Ivan is now enjoying his well-deserved fame. He is surrounded by his family, friends and small wonders from the modern world that help him lead a comfortable life. Luckily, he has his Magic Sword to cut a gap between the worlds to get some supplies quite regularly. But when an ancient evil rises and the existence of the magic world is put to danger, Ivan has to team up with his old friends and his new rivals. They will set out on a long journey beyond the known world to find a way to defeat the enemies and to return peace to Belogorie.

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Chechnyan War veteran Alexei Volkovoy (aka Volk) is a brutal gangster in Russia's underworld as well as a covert agent for the Russian military. Think of him as the Russian Jason Bourne.

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Many years after a deadly terrorist siege in a Moscow theatre, survivor Natalya returns to the crime scene to hold a memorial evening, finally able to confront her survivor's guilt and her estranged daughter and husband.

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Capital traffic jams and endless replacement of tiles on the sidewalks, filming of national films and absurd situations with artists, stories from the lives of neighbors and their dogs.

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Who and What is “A Good Man”? This is the central question in this original drama series from Konstantin Bogomolov, agent provocateur of Russian cinema. Based on a true story, inspired by the capture of Russia’s most prolific and brutal serial killer “the maniac of Angarsk”. "A Good Man" looks at everyday violence in quiet suburbia. The protagonist is a police officer and a security guard, keen to uphold the law, protect people and his town. His methods are deadly. It takes almost a decade to reveal him as a mass murderer, who preyed on over 80 young women in and around Angarsk.

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The secret service conducts demolition work in the area of magnetic anomalies. Purely by accident, it turns out that three men are located in the explosion area: Vladimir Golenko, a criminal, Oleg Malinin, a photographer, and Benedict Tartakovsky, a failed writer. As a result of the explosion, a strange connection begins between those three: a photographer Malinin can read the criminal Golengo’s mind, even see the world around him with the criminal’s eyes, and the writer Tartakovsky can entirely control Golenko’s actions and communicate with Malinin remotely. Tartakovsky, having Golenko come into his full possession, decides to use him to revenge everybody who had ever stood on his way before.

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The TV show is about the Godunov family, which covers the period from the reign of Ivan the Terrible to the accession of Mikhail Romanov to the throne.

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When the world is in danger, superheroes come to rescue humanity. They are stronger, faster, smarter than ordinary people and are willing to sacrifice themselves for the sake of others. But what would happen if superheroes would not be around, and the world's rescue team will be made of selfish, irresponsible twenty year old weirdos?

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Konstantin, a songwriter and master guitarist, runs away from numerous problems to the nature reserve Mikhailovskoye. Kostya has long lost any way of income and has almost given up hope to be heard, living by sheer inertia and often drawing on alcohol. His wife and daughter are going to Canada, and in his head he constantly turns around the question: what exactly has gone wrong? How can he put it right? Does anyone need his creative work at all, or has he just talked himself into that? Maybe Konstantin has enough energy to change things, but he strongly doubts that: indeed, why and for whom should he try. Nevertheless, the nature reserve is the right place to collect his thoughts, break the minefield of his own life into sections, and get to work.

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Ivan is an ordinary guy who is transferred from modern Moscow to the fantasy world Belogorye. In this parallel universe where characters of Russian fairy tales live, magic is an integral part of daily life, and arguments are settled with the help of sword . Unexpectedly, Ivan finds himself in the middle of a battle between good and evil, and he must discover why everyone thinks that he must play the main role in upcoming events...

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«Secret for a Million» is a game show for celebrities. Guest stars win money for disclosing personal secrets. Guest has to answer 10 hardball questions from the host. The last question is the hardest one and a truthful answer will be awarded by 1 million rubles. Only the most honest and brave of the guests dare to answer it telling the ugly truth they hid from their fans for years.

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Eleven comedic vignettes featuring conversations – some important, some less so – held in restaurants over coffee and cigarettes (how quickly time flies – cigarettes are banned in Russia’s restaurants now). The conversations are candid, and even veer into the territory of murder. In the final credits, the director apologizes to Jim Jarmusch, whose work (in the anthology Coffee and Cigarettes, which Jarmusch shot in pieces over many years) Oldenburg-Svintsov is clearly indebted to. Sex, Coffee, Cigarettes’s kinship with Jarmusch’s film extends to the fact that superstars play tiny roles in almost all of the vignettes.

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A journalist finds himself in a dire criminal situation. Some would resort to violence, but he picks up a pen and masterfully extricates himself from the predicament, turning the entire city upside down in the process.

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Two brave friends, lovers of extreme sports, are overcome by crazy ideas. The first of them is a small aircraft pilot who performs dizzying pirouettes in the skies of the Moscow region, participates in exciting aerial battles, makes risky flights under a bridge, and lands on a highway. The second is a racer who participates in extreme survival races. Friends go to distant Thailand in search of treasure...

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Germany, 1953. Corrupt gang of Soviet officers appropriated jewelry seized from repressed citizens. The officers take the young scout Terekhov and collector Avdeev, who recently left not so distant places, to guard the myriad wealth.

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In the weeks leading up to the grand air show young Su-27 fighter by the name of Knight comes to the disciples to aircraft leading figures, which are taken to prepare it for the competition. But Knight forget about classes, when the ears falls in love with a charming light aircraft lightning, not knowing what it is - an assistant cruel and evil Thunder fighter who wants to deal with the Knight. Would love to win the Knight Lightning? A time to destroy evil plans of Thunder? And most importantly - will the winner of the Knight airshow?

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Two close friends working for a provincial TV channel dream of getting rich and popular in the capital. They persuade their cute colleague Nadia to participate in a TV reality show, the participants of which must find the lost treasures of Admiral Kolchak.

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