Videoteca

location_onSaint Petersburg, RussiapublicRU

12 Months. A New Fairy Tale 2015 star_border 5.7
Girl of our time gets into a dreamlike world. The middle of winter, she shall bring out of the woods bouquet of snowdrops to come New Year, which decided to cancel the evil royal advisor. And only then did she return to her parents.

Club of Happiness 2010 star_border 4.2
As many other girls young Katya arrives to St. Petersburg trying to become a big star but until it happens she finds a job as a barman in a prestigious night club.

The Taming of the Shrews 2009 star_border 3
A few rich and glamorous people are flying to Nice, but instead of South France they land in the heart of the Sibir.

Alexander: The Neva Battle 2008 star_border 3.8
Young prince Aleksandr has to hold out against two enemies - the Horde in the east and the Teutonic order and Sweden in the west. He discovers that some boyars are plotting against him and are ready to betray Novgorod to the Swedes and the Germans to boost their trade. Meanwhile, his best friend falls under suspicion, as somebody tries to poison the young prince at his own wedding feast. Aleksandr has no way out - to defend his people against the invaders and to find the true poisoner.

Twilight 2005 star_border 2.7
In the last winter of WWII a group of captive German soldiers is brought to a remote Russian village, where widows, a child and a crippled are the only ones left. This is a military drama about those, who can love and forgive.

Bipedalism 2005 star_border 3.6
The main character is crazy about about depicting various anomalies in art. Accidentally he finds a cinematography archive which makes him advance a completely new theory on the reasons why humans became bipedal. Yufit proceeds with the plot by describing a scientist struggling against the epidemic wave of anomalies in the physical and mental world thematically started in his other films. This time the struggle takes place on the background of paleoanthropology, psychoanalysis and modern art. As materials of the Museum of Anthropology and other archives are included in the film, it oversteps the boundary between a feature film and documentary.

The Sun 2005 star_border 6.7
A re-imagination of Japanese Emperor Hirohito’s final days in power as WWII draws to a close.

Happy plumber 2004
The hero of the film is the Petersburger Zinoviy Tennenboym. He works as a locksmith of the city service of Vodokanal. For 30 years, he climbed into the hatches and repairs the cranes. At another time, in another place, probably, he could be a scientist or a writer ... But he is satisfied with his fate. He loves his job. He knows how to be happy.

Father and Son 2003 star_border 5.8
In this dreamlike film, a nameless father and his son, Aleksei, live together in an apartment in St. Petersburg. Aleksei's mother has died and consequently the two have a very close relationship. When Aleksei acquires a girlfriend, she refuses to take a back seat to his bond with his dad, and breaks up with him. Aleksei is also experiencing nightmares, dreading separation from his father to be a part of the military as his father was.

Kira 2003
Film about the work of Ukrainian film director Kira Muratova.

Killed by Lightning 2002 star_border 6
An anthropologist investigates the origins of human evolution. She had suffered a mental trauma during her childhood when her father, a submarine captain, died during the war. This trauma periodically destabilizes her condition. The ghosts of a prehistoric past and a violent death collide in the subconsciousness of the scientist to give birth to an unexpected theory of the origins of human beings.

Chekhovian Motifs 2002 star_border 4.4
The film is based on A. P. Chekhov’s play “Tatiana Repina” and short story “Difficult People”. At his wedding, the groom is horrified to see among the church crowd his former mistress who had recently committed suicide.

Peculiarities of the National Fishing 1998 star_border 6.7
General Ivolgin, forester Kuzmich, and good-natured Lyova lose their way on a fishing trip and wind up in a neighboring country, where they decide to have a good time anyway but end up leaving their vodka and fishing equipment behind.

Wedding Kisses 1998 star_border 7
While the bride is late for the wedding, the guests tell various marriage stories, which confuse the groom.

The Bomb 1997 star_border 1
Russia, the early 20th century. Smart underground revolutionaries invented an apparatus detecting sexual impulses. That would let them use the erotic energy for the cause of the revolution, instead of wasting it in carnal pleasures, as the unconscionable bourgeoisie does. The revolutionaries start working on building a sex bomb, a weapon of formidable destructive power.

Operation 'Happy New Year'! 1996 star_border 5.2
A comedy about a New Year Eve celebration in one very funny hospital.

Everything Will Be All Right 1995 star_border 6.5
This charming comedy tracks the lives of several romantic pairs through trials and tribulations. The main focus of the story is a young soldier with a good heart but little ambition and his fiancée, who feels torn when a charming and sophisticated intellectual enters her life and sweeps her off her feet. There are also several side stories, also all dealing with relationships, most significantly the soldier's mother, whose comfortable but unexceptional marriage is threatened when a past love returns to her life.

Passions 1994 star_border 3.1
Blonde Lilia and brunette Violetta are fascinated by horse racing, and the young racers are more than a little attracted to them, too. However, the worlds of sporting and romance don't always coexist peacefully as the two girls learn the hard way through a series of touching, surreal, and sometimes heartbreaking encounters. One of the most beautifully photographed Russian films in recent years, this acclaimed modern classic was hailed at numerous film festivals including the Berlin Film Festival and Russia's Kinotavr Festival, where it won the Jury and Critics Prizes. Amazon

Over the Dark Water 1993 star_border 5.5
Leningrad; 60th years; white nights. Walking on Neva Embankment, the charming provincial has met three friends: poet, artist and film director. And each of young people has suggested to marry him.

Sin: A Story of Passion 1993 star_border 2.5
Young girl Nina is falling in love with the orthodox priest with a criminal past.

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На рубеже. Ответный удар 2014 star_border 5

Военная разведка: Западный фронт 2010 star_border 7

Catherine's Musketeers 2009

Секретная служба Его Величества 2006 star_border 9