Alexandr Rastorguev

Rastorhuev (2021)

On July 30, 2018, documentary filmmaker Alexander Rastorguev was killed in the Central African Republic. He left a unique mark on Russian cinema, but managed to do much less than he could. "Rastorguev" - a portrait of one of the brightest and most free fil ...

Childhood, Summer and War (2018)

This movie is about children who live every day with a reminder of war and enemies. This happens in today's Russia, in the city of Belaya Kalitva in the Rostov region. Teens take Cossack education. ...

Last Day! (2018)

On April 23, after 11 days of mass protests, Armenian Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan resigned. About how the opposition led by Nikol Pashinyan won - the film "Last Day". ...

How Big Is the Galaxy? (2018)

The Zharkov family-father, mother and two young sons-belong to the Dolgan community, one of the last indigenous peoples pursuing their traditional nomadic life in the extreme north of Siberia. The children used to be sent to boarding school, where they bec ...

It's Been Three Years (2018)

The main character of the film, Alexander Strizhenova, became famous in talk shows and tabloid media as the daughter of a Soviet actress, Natalya Strizhenova, who grew up without a father - but this is not mentioned in the film by Rastorguev. Sasha, beaten ...

Electing Russia (2018)

Schoolboy Semyon Golubovsky, Vladivostok. Students Egor Chernyuk and Oleg Alexeev, Kaliningrad. Entrepreneur Viktor Barmin, Yekaterinburg. Activist Violetta Grudina, Murmansk. Minibus driver Vladimir Semenov, Astrakhan. What unites these people? All of the ...

White Mama (2018)

Аlina Makarova is a mother of six of her own children and one adopted child. Her ex husband is from Ethiopia, and all her own children are mixed race. Only her adopted son is white, but he has serious health problems and is psychologically unstable. Alina ...

National-shkolota (2018)

Among those who took to the streets of Russian cities in recent months are people of various political views. This is the story of a young Russian nationalist. ...

I am Nobody (2017)

Alexey Navalny began his election campaign in the regions of Russia with a trip to Murmansk. Thousands of citizens came to his rally, and in the rain. This is the success of local activists who organized the rally and selflessly campaigned. Alexander Rasto ...

Semyon's Mother (2017)

On June 12, Vladivostok schoolboy Semyon Golubovsky came to a rally organized by Alexei Navalny. There, police officers approached him and took him to the police station. After that, Semyon was сhastised at his school and was told that he was putting an e ...

Here Is The Cross For You (2017)

A police sergeant of the so-called "Donetsk People's Republic" comes to Moscow to receive the Donbass Volunteer badge as a reward for participating in the hostilities in eastern Ukraine on the side of pro-Russian separatists. ...

Everyone Was Waiting For The Arrival Of The Fuehrer (2017)

Near Moscow at the end of April they took the Reichstag by storm. More precisely, a copy of it - during the reconstruction of the battle in the Patriot Park... Hundreds of people - in uniform, with weapons and equipment from the Second World War - ran thro ...

Scar Tattoo (2017)

Ufa tattoo artist covers traces of violence with flowers. ...

I Will Dance (2017)

A portrait of Richard Semashkov, a rapper famous for anti-liberal songs and friendship with Prilepin and other "patriotic" artists. ...

Deer Master (2016)

Zakhar is 7 years old, and his brother Procopius is 9. Each of the brothers already has its own deer and its own tundra for wandering. Previously, children born into a nomad family at this age were almost forcibly taken away to study in a boarding school o ...

My Friend Boris Nemtsov (2015)

An intimate portrait of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov — once Deputy Prime Minister and "an heir of President Yeltsin", later an uncompromising adversary of Putin — that was assassinated near the Kremlin in February 2015. Election campaigns an ...

Norilsk in the First Person (2015)

Producer Aleksey Pivovarov and director Alexander Rastorguev started working on a documentary film dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Norilsk Nickel, moving away from the traditional form and choosing the web-doc genre. As a result, the project team crea ...

The Term. Beginning of a Big Story (2014)

The documentary project The Term was conceived in May 2012. When the directing trio commenced mapping the Russian sociopolitical landscape, Vladimir Putin had just settled into the Kremlin for his third term. The original experimental format of "documentar ...

Anton's Right Here (2012)

How is it possible to feel someone elses pain? The hero of this film is an autistic boy. His life is divided between an apartment with peeling walls on the outskirts of a large city, and a mental hospital. Anton comes into the frame when he is on the point ...

I Don't Love You (2012)

A youth comedy about the tragedy of the first love. An experiment in the area of the film language. REC, accidentally pressed in the middle of a fight. Jealosies, breakups, reunions. A few bedroom scenes, shot with a home camera. Cries and whispers of the ...

These (2012)

The film is about Alexey Popogrebsky's film "How I spent this summer". In the film, there are no tedious reflections of the actors and the director about their film against the background of posters of the same film. ...

Kids and Mothers (2007)

Irina Gora, without a roof over her head, at the age of 39 inadvertently gave birth to her friend's son. Vanka turned out to be smart. We have been observing him, eight years old, from the moment of his birth. A kaleidoscope of events: a zoo, marmons, a ci ...

Tender's Heat: Wild Wild Beach (2006)

A drunk couple spend their summer-holiday at sea. Their life is not everything they hoped for, and abuse is part of their relationship. At sea they dream about love and understanding, and we observe their fellow countrymen spending their holidays on the sa ...

Contract (2004)

Competition for the post of personal secretary. ...

Clean Thursday (2003)

Not far from Grozny, on an alternate railroad track, there is an old steam locomotive with several wagons attached to it. The steam engine gives steam — hot water is in the boilers, and a bathhouse is equipped in the cars, where soldiers and officers was ...

Mummies (2001)

Yulia is sixteen, she lives in a hut and is pregnant. Vanya lives with his parents in a five-story building. His parents are against mesalliance and do not let the couple on the threshold. ...

Gora (2001)

Gora is a frail middle-aged woman who works as a janitor in one of the sleeping areas of Rostov-on-Don. She has neither a residence permit nor a medical policy, and in order to somehow save money, she lives with a friend in a barracks for 500 rubles. The t ...

Your Family (1999)

A young student returns from Yerevan for a vacation to a remote mountain village. The audience will see magnificent pictures of the life of the Armenian village. The film is inspired by the prose of Hrant Matevosyan. ...

My Century (1999)

Homeland (1998)

Draft (1997)

Goodbye, Boys (1997)

A polyphonic conversation about love with juvenile prisoners, in which the main creative principles of the director immediately manifested themselves: endless tenderness for the characters and the rejection of any form of moralizing. Rastorguev accelerates ...

Rastorhuev (2021)

On July 30, 2018, documentary filmmaker Alexander Rastorguev was killed in the Central African Republic. He left a unique mark on Russian cinema, but managed to do much less than he could. "Rastorguev" - a portrait of one of the brightest and most free fil ...

More than Love. Such a Big Short Life... (2012)

This 2012 program exploring the relationship between filmmakers Larisa Shepitko and Elem Klimov was broadcast on the Russian television channel Kultura and features interviews with Klimov's brother, the writer German Klimov, and screenwriter Natalya Ryazan ...

These (2012)

The film is about Alexey Popogrebsky's film "How I spent this summer". In the film, there are no tedious reflections of the actors and the director about their film against the background of posters of the same film. ...