
Birthday:
08-07-1981
(43 years)
Birthplace:
Moscow, USSR (Russia)
Biography
Ilya Vyacheslav Kulikov (Russian: Илья́ Вячесла́вович Кулико́в; born August 7, 1981; Moscow) is a Russian film showrunner, director, screenwriter and producer. Founder and general producer of the TV company "LEGIO FELIX". He is best known as the creator and author of the TV series "Policeman from Rublevka", "Chernobyl. Exclusion Zone", "Law of the Stone Jungle", "O.K.O. Agency", "Mylodrama", "Dyatlov Pass". Today, he is one of the most in-demand screenwriters in Russia, whose projects always collect high rates of audience share.
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Cinema 3.0
(3 ep.)
event2023
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The documentary series tells about the history of the new Russian cinema in the context of events that changed Russia forever. The narrative is built in chronological order: from 1992, when the first film was released, where "Russia" was listed in the output data instead of "USSR", to the present. Directors, actors and producers will share their memories of the path in Russian cinema. Among them are Fyodor Bondarchuk, Gosha Kutsenko, Evgeny Tsyganov, Zhora Gooseberry, Pyotr Buslov, Elena Lyadova, Vladimir Khotinenko, Valeria Guy Germanika, Sergey Selyanov, Egor Konchalovsky and many others.
Snow Maiden Against Everyone
Screenplay (11 ep.)
event2021 star_border 6.8
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The main qualities of 45-year-old businessman Yevgeny Vasin are the brilliant mind, thanks to which he became rich, and the disgusting character, which turns the life of the businessman's relatives and subordinates into a real hell. On New Year's Eve, Vasin knocks down Santa Claus in a car and, instead of providing help, steals a Christmas tree and leaves. Punishment is inevitable. Santa Claus transmits Evgeny's soul into the body of his Snow Maiden. Now, in the image of his grandfather's helper, Vasin will have to deliver gifts to all those whom he has offended, humiliated or insulted, to look at himself from the outside and check whether his life and the life of his family are similar to the fairy tale that Yevgeny drew for himself.
The Nerd and the Supergirl
Producer (11 ep.)
event2022 star_border 6.7
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A shy guy, due to problems in communicating with girls, invents an android robot and goes with him to a reunion.
Shadow
Director (11 ep.)
event2022 star_border 5.9
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A talented spy, elusive like a shadow. A man of many faces whose identity is a mystery. Stopping him is the top priority for Russian counterintelligence because he steals the most guarded state secrets. When it becomes evident that the mysterious spy is operating in Moscow, a young counterintelligence agent gets on his trail. With the country’s national security at risk, the stakes in this game of cat and mouse grow higher by the day.
Dugout
Producer (11 ep.)
event2024 star_border 8
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Two friends come to Saur-Mogila - nurse Sergey from Russia and German Paul. They are looking for things from the Second World War and are suddenly transported to 1941, during the battles at Saur-Mogila. The heroes are faced with a choice - to stay and help or return to their own time.
Chernobyl: Exclusion Zone. The Movie
Writer (11 ep.)
event2019 star_border 7.7
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"Chernobyl: Exclusion zone. The finale" will put an end to the story of five teenagers who tried to prevent the world's most famous man-made disaster. They will have to return to where it all started – Chernobyl, in order to solve the mystery of the origin of the Exclusion Zone. The full-length film will provide answers to all riddles and intrigues, and its creators promise to maximize the dynamism of the action, the entertainment of action scenes and the quality of visual special effects.
V.I.P. Cop. New Year's Eve Mayhem 2
Producer (11 ep.)
event2019 star_border 5.3
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The new year is approaching, and Barvikha’s police department is planning to celebrate it outside the city in the warm company of old friends and colleagues. But unforeseen circumstances in the person of criminals who robbed a large jewelry company, put the holiday at risk. Will the Rublev police be able to return the stolen gems worth millions of dollars and save their holiday before the clock strikes midnight?
Pancake Day
Producer (11 ep.)
new_releases Release: February 27, 2025
Polina, a student, does not pass the internship competition in China. A Chinese student is coming to her university. The capricious heir wants to know everything about Maslenitsa in Russia. Polina is given a condition: if she shows the holiday to a student, she will go to China for an internship. But Polina breaks her leg and sends her friend instead.
The Envelope
Writer (11 ep.)
event2017 star_border 5.6
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A strange envelope is delivered to an architect bureau by mistake. Igor, a driver, gets the task to bring it to the right address. From that moment his life becomes a string of paranormal events. The cursed letter invades Igor's life and leads him to a mysterious addressee.
V.I.P. Cop. New Year's Eve Mayhem
Director (11 ep.)
event2018 star_border 6.1
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On the eve of the new year, the Barvikha Severnoe police station is threatened with closure. To save his own department, a police officer from Rublyovka Grisha Izmailov is forced to go to extreme measures and, together with operatives, decides to rob a bank. He is counting on the fact that his colleagues, together with the head of the department, Yakovlev, will easily disclose this matter, the money will be returned back, and everyone will keep their work next year. But everything is not going the way Grisha planned ...
The Blackout
Screenplay (11 ep.)
event2019 star_border 6.5
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Contact between most towns on Earth has been severed. A small ring-like area in Eastern Europe still has electricity, and maybe even life is being reported from space. What military forces find outside the ring is shocking.
Glukhar. "New again!"
Scenario Writer (11 ep.)
event2011
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The film begins in the "monkey" district police Department of Moscow, where the detainee is delivered type of 60 years in a Bathrobe and Slippers. This homeless-looking character claims that he is Maxim Averin, who starred in the series "Glukhar" in the role of Sergei Glukharev. Who is this old man, and will the police find the real Maxim Averin? How and why are Denis Rozhkov, aka Antoshin, and Alexander Bobrov, aka Agapov, on the stage?
Парк
Screenplay (11 ep.)
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Horror about two sisters who go on a quest to a horror park and find out that in fact this harmless entertainment is extremely dangerous for life.
V.I.P. Cop. New Year's Eve Mayhem 3
Director (11 ep.)
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The third part of the popular movie series
Draculov
Director (11 ep.)
event2021 star_border 5.2
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Vampires appear in the Russian Empire of the 19th century. Count Draculov, originally from distant Transylvania, decides to buy a new mansion in Moscow. The deal is led by a young lawyer Pyotr Smirnov. During a conversation with the customer, Peter accidentally takes out a photograph of Varvara's bride, which the count immediately liked. Draculov leaves Petya in the mansion under the supervision of werewolf harlots, and he goes to Moscow in search of a girl. Peter goes on the trail of the count to protect his bride from a three-hundred-year-old vampire. The son of the famous professor, Vasya van Helsing, is trying to figure out all the further tangled events.
Левша
Producer (11 ep.)
new_releases Release: January 22, 2026
19th century. A self-taught inventor nicknamed Levsha is recruited to help investigate a mechanical flea found in the chambers of Aleksandr III.
Карпов
Writer (32 ep.)
event2012 star_border 9
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Карпов — культовый популярный российский телевизионный сериал от компании Dixi Media, спин-офф телесериалов «Глухарь» и «Пятницкий», рассказывающий о жизни персонажа сериала «Глухарь» - бывшего подполковника милиции Карповa.
Policeman from Rublyovka
Screenplay (32 ep.)
event2016 star_border 8.2
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The television tragicomic story about a young guy named Grisha Izmailov, who became a policeman and was called to protect peace and order in the most elite area of the city of Moscow and the Russian Federation. The guy has to investigate the cases in which the residents of Rublyovka get involved, and he does this, often exceeding his authority. Grisha is about 30 years old, he is handsome, lonely, rich, cynical, passionate and treats everything with a fair amount of black humor. He takes care of his younger sister Nika, who he is forced to constantly get out of trouble. He regularly mocks his boss, Volodya, who thinks that Grisha was sent to him for all his deadly sins. The main character’s best friend is Mukhich, a colorful, clumsy fat man who has no success with girls. Grisha himself, without exerting effort, knows how to please women, for example, his girlfriend - prostitute Christina, but can never achieve reciprocity from Alena, who has long been in love with.
Insomnia
Writer (16 ep.)
event2014
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Without sleep, the human body can not exist forever. In one of the underground casinos, more like a secret club, they play only the richest, the most influential and ... the most sated. Those who are willing to put a fortune on red, if it is red - blood. For them, and was created a new tote, based on the game "Insomnia", which is held only once a year. The casino customers risk millions by betting, but the players risk much more.
The Teachers
Director (12 ep.)
event2019 star_border 7.5
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Sergei, the father of Masha and Tanya, holds the high post of Deputy Minister for Education and constantly sees new women—some of whom are the same age as his own daughters. His youngest daughter, Masha, is a school teacher and an idealist. She is categorically against her father helping her with her career, and wants to reach success on her own. His older daughter, Tatiana, works in an institute and is happy use her father’s connections to get ahead. She also has no qualms about accepting bribes from the parents of her lazier students. Pushing boundaries to their limits, she embarks on a string of affairs with various men, as if to fill the emptiness inside herself.
Mylodrama
Director (9 ep.)
event2019 star_border 7.4
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In order to bring down the shares of the TV channel, the board of directors decides to put a gas station attendant in the CEO's chair and entrust him with the filming of the series. In a short time, the would-be boss manages to create chaos on the air and establish his own rules in the media business. But suddenly, the series, which was supposed to be the greatest failure, begins to have a tremendous success…
The O.K.O. Agency
Producer (16 ep.)
event2020 star_border 6.3
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A former opera singer from Petrovka is paired with a psychic girl. With private money, they are engaged in searching for missing persons, investigating murders, deaths and other cases where the police were powerless.
The Blackout
Screenplay (6 ep.)
event2020 star_border 7
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In the near future, life on earth is destroyed except for a small area in Eastern Europe. Russian military fights off hoards of remaining humans controlled by aliens and work to prevent a successful invasion by an alien force set on conquering the plant.
The Territory
Thanks (15 ep.)
event2019 star_border 9.3
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Victor Gromov, once a legend of Moscow’s criminal underworld known under the nickname “Butcher”, has since retired and now spends his days enjoying life on his farm. One day, Victor’s former “colleagues” show up and tell him that he must store the mafia’s common fund in his offshore bank account. Victor has no choice but to help them. Several months later, on the day when he is supposed to give the money back, Victor gets hit on the head by a falling billboard. As a result, he forgets the password to his bank account. Fleeing for his life from his former cronies, Victor decides to hide in a freight train’s boxcar but ends up getting locked inside. The train departs, and several days later he finds himself thousands of kilometers away from Moscow, in a small northern town called Polyarny, which, as it turns out, is not so easy to get out of...
Militiaman from Rublyovka
Producer (16 ep.)
event2021 star_border 8.1
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The year is 1994. Volodya Yakovlev, a graduate of the Higher school of Militia, is assigned to Rublevka. The operative always works in conjunction with the investigator, and that's how Yakovlev gets to know Gudkova — even then very strange, but not so lost to the world. Together they investigate important, but rather dubious cases — they are looking for a gang of pirates filming the second parts of cult action films, then they find out who stole the suitcase with the "MMM" tickets. Yakovlev's brother helps them in this, who knew as a teenager that he would have to work in the security service, and not in some kind of militia.
Rugby
Writer (16 ep.)
event2021 star_border 8.9
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In the story, Russian gymnastics champion Nastya quits her favorite sport due to a conflict with her coach. Unable to imagine life without victories, the girl goes to women's rugby. Max, who left boxing and mixed martial arts at one time, trains in the men's team of the same club. Everyone in their team is exploring the honest, uncompromising and brutal world of rugby.
Overheard
Director (24 ep.)
event2021
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Five friends (Yura, Jules, Lika, Krest and Kostya) notice that their classmates, seemingly unrelated to each other, are steadily disappearing. Teachers attribute this to their parents ' sudden decision to move to another city. Parents do not pay attention to this, assuming that the child is just seriously ill and is in a local hospital. But these explanations do not seem plausible to the guys, and they decide to initiate their own investigation.
Documentalist. The Ghost Hunter
Director (8 ep.)
event2021 star_border 8
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Zhenya Morozov is a documentary filmmaker. He achieved great success in his profession, but the films themselves did not bring him fame. Then he decides to make a documentary that will blow up the Internet. All that remains is to choose a theme. Having looked death in the eye, Zhenya decides to dedicate his new film to the study of the supernatural and the paranormal. He gathers a group consisting of his ex-girlfriend, screenwriter Dasha, and cameraman Egor. It's a pity the documentarian doesn't know what he's gotten everyone into.
Dead Mountain: The Dyatlov Pass Incident
Writer (4 ep.)
event2020 star_border 7.5
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Russia, 1959. A KGB major investigates the mysterious deaths of a group of nine student hikers in the Ural Mountains. Troubled by his past as a WWII veteran, he has a sixth sense and death seems to follow him around as he digs deeper into the mysterious incident. The more he learns, the more it becomes clear: the reason the students died will never see the light of day.
Through My Eyes
Writer (19 ep.)
event2013 star_border 4
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Graduation in an ordinary high school turns into a tragedy when, under strange circumstances, an eleventh-grader Katya Chunina dies. Shortly before that, her boyfriend Maxim Volkov goes missing. He was last seen in the morning at the hospital, from which he escaped by walking out of the window and remained unharmed. It seems that all these events are connected.
Mukhich's Detective Agency
Producer (20 ep.)
event2022 star_border 8.5
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After another "successful" case of catching a thief, Mukhich and Kristina are fired, and they open their own detective agency in Barvikha. The partners take on a variety of cases: from spying on the mistress of a rich entrepreneur to protecting the director of an IT company, into whose consciousness someone is trying to penetrate in a dream. Mukhich and Kristina will do everything to ensure that no crime in Barvikha remains unsolved, and old acquaintances will help them in their investigations.
Al-Kapotnya
Producer (13 ep.)
event2021
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Minor hooliganism, fights, thefts and their consequences are all routine for employees of the juvenile affairs department. But there is one among them who cares about the chaos reigning in the area. A good policeman, Pasha, tries his best to save confused teenagers from prison. But it is very difficult to help those who have lost their way when you are confronted by a local criminal authority.
Chernobyl: Exclusion Zone
Writer (19 ep.)
event2014 star_border 8.1
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5 youths give chase after a man who has stolen 8 million rubles from them. The man reveals on his video blog his intention to travel to Chernobyl. With every kilometer the journey of the heroes becomes more dangerous and confusing.
Frostbitten
Producer (17 ep.)
event2023 star_border 8
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Four bandits in the late nineties come to knock money out of the debtor, but accidentally fall into the cryocamera and end up in 2022. Phil, Chuck, Whizz and Massa do not immediately realize that during this time Moscow has radically changed, their lifestyle has become very outdated, and people around have a lot of unfamiliar devices and strange habits. The worst thing is that their loved ones have grown older, and now someone will have to rebuild their relationship with their son, who has become his age, and someone will have to win the heart of an already much older girlfriend. Now the four friends must find themselves in a new incomprehensible world and take revenge on their former boss, who sent them to the cryocamera.
Curse of the Sleepers
Director (8 ep.)
event2018
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The plot is tied to unusual works of art. Each of the paintings depicts a sleeping man, and the soul is enclosed in the canvas itself. This curse came to the modern world from an artist who loves his wife to madness. When she was dying, the master, by the power of his feelings, imprisoned her soul in a portrait. This legend inspired businessman Pavel Voronov to collect a collection of paintings with sleeping heroes. Photographer Kostya and art critic Agnes help him in this. The artist Alexey Tikhonov is also hunting for unusual paintings, who dreams of continuing the work of the master and learning how to enclose souls in portraits.
Helium-3
Director (1 ep.)
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In 2040, Ruskosmos opens the Sunset-1 lunar station in order to protect the Earth from a dangerous asteroid. The new structure was headed by the eccentric Irina Tsvetkova, who had no less strange employees under her command: the narrow-minded major Slava, the boorish pilot Sofia, stupid engineers Yurich and Roma and other specialists who did not find a place on their native planet. The usual way of life at the station is being changed by astrophysicist Venera Myshkina, who learns that in fact the team is not saving the world, but illegally extracting helium-3.
Cable
Director (1 ep.)
event2018
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"Cable" is a harsh satire on our television.
Black Square
Director (1 ep.)
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Employees of one strange agency are searching for rare items under the guidance of a loser journalist.
Successful
Director (8 ep.)
event2024 star_border 8.5
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Sasha, 30, is a serial loser trying his best to become a successful business coach. Fate leads him to billionaire Oleg Kalugin, who decides to hire a cheerful dreamer as a coach. However, Kalugin does not need business advice, in which the guy knows nothing, but the secret of his ability to sincerely enjoy life despite poverty and other problems. From this moment on, drastic changes begin in Sasha's life, which show the real price of success. Step by step, he is moving further away from happiness, plunging into a world of deception, betrayal, hatred and really big, but dirty money.
Brothers
Writer (21 ep.)
event2022
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Oleg works in the police and knows the intricacies of the work of an operative firsthand, so everything he sees in TV series makes him smile only. But when the hit of the season "Falcon" is shown in the evenings, he grinds his teeth in anger. After all, in the main role of Major Sokolov is his narcissistic brother Lyosha. All Oleg's family and friends are crazy about the hero Lesha. If they only knew that Lesha borrowed all the best for his character from his older brother.
Explosion
Producer (16 ep.)
event2020 star_border 4.5
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An ordinary day in an ordinary Moscow five-story building ends in tragedy: an explosion occurred in one of the entrances. People have lost not only a roof over their heads and property, but also lost their loved ones and relatives... Grief unites people, and now the survivors will have to learn to live anew together. And the main thing is to understand the true causes of what happened.
Heritage
Producer (13 ep.)
event2024
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A middle-aged man named Victor many years ago, he was forced to move to Italy to avoid persecution. Life is well established abroad: there is money, work is disputed, pasta carbonara, pizza abounds in mounds of parmesan. Despite this, Victor decides to return to Russia. The man had a wife and three children at home, who had grown inexcusably over the past 25 years, and his father was seen only in photographs from his mother's mezzanine. Victor's plan is as reliable as a Swiss watch: to establish relations with his offspring, to communicate with his wife and eliminate the man who caused the poor man's life to go downhill a quarter of a century ago. The family is discouraged by the sudden appearance of the priest. Sharp-tongued children do not accept him, but they quickly realize that daddy is rich, and each of them is awkwardly balancing on the verge of financial bankruptcy.
Casting Lady Justice
Writer (20 ep.)
event2021 star_border 8
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She is an aspiring actress but works as a criminal investigator. This doesn’t sit well with her — she wants to be a star. So meanwhile she moonlights as a stunt person, and discreetly provides production designers with items from the evidence locker for ’real ambiance’. The heroine is so charming, that everyone, including the audience, forgives her minor misdemeanor. She has a great sense of humor and always finds unorthodox ways to handle dangerous situations and to solve crimes. With a partner who is her complete opposite, they work all kinds of cases. In the end, she realizes that her place is with the police, not with the glamorous world of film, but it takes courage to admit that…
Diagnosis is «Lucky»
Producer (8 ep.)
event2023 star_border 9
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The beautiful Face is famous in criminal circles for the fact that in any scam it brings one hundred percent success to the entire operation. That's why, when someone needs to concoct a dirty business, it's enough to take Lika in a share, and she will literally attract good luck. But when one of the criminal authorities decides to make Lika his personal mascot, she is forced to embark on an adventure with a klutzy accountant Anton, unfairly accused of embezzling millions.
Insomnia
Creator (1 ep.)
event2018 star_border 7.8
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A group of unwitting strangers, one by one, find themselves trapped and drugged by a mysterious captor. They begin to realize they are part of a twisted game, called Insomnia, from which they are unable to escape without being killed or becoming killers themselves.
Stone Jungle Laws
Creator (1 ep.)
event2015 star_border 8.4
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Four guys from the outskirts of Moscow decide to make easy money - to overtake a car with stolen cargo inside. Not really thinking about the consequences, they make one mistake after another, and very soon they have serious problems with the law. Now there is no turning back, and in order to survive, four friends need to stick together at all costs.
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