Andrei Panin

She Is Still Alive (2015)

After avenging the murder of her husband, Polina flees to Odessa where she hopes to hide from her merciless enemies. There she meets a young and charming Gleb and their sympathy begins to grow into something more ... but the mafia's influence spreads very ...

Sherlock Holmes (2013)

A Russian crime drama series, based on the Sherlock Holmes detective stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. ...

Vysotsky. Four Hours of Real Life (2013)

Russian poet, singer and actor Vladimir Vysotsky was an idol of the 1970s and '80s. In 1980, at the age of 42, he passed away during the Moscow Olympic Games. This is the story of his last great love as handed down to his son from a family friend. Written ...

Expiation (2012)

The story about a difficult post-war time. About destiny of the young lieutenant and the young girl, whose love passes through the hardest vital and moral ordeals. ...

Otryv (2012)

In 1947, Alexey Mitrokhin comes to post-war Moscow to visit his friend, former battalion commander Argunov, who saved his life during the war. But it turns out that the battalion commander was sentenced to 25 years and is in a strict regime camp. ...

The Horde (2012)

It is the word "horde" that had meant, for many countries and nations, bloody raids and being under humilating contribution for centuries - a strange and scary world with its own rules and customs. To be or not to be for Rus (Ruthenia), that is the price o ...

We Are Family (2012)

A comedy about a hapless manager desperate to impress his fiancée. ...

Vysotsky: Thank You For Being Alive (2011)

Russian poet, singer and actor Vladimir Vysotsky was an idol of the 1970s and '80s. In 1980, at the age of 42, he passed away during the Moscow Olympic Games. This is the story of his last great love as handed down to his son from a family friend. Written ...

Shadow Boxing 3. The Final Round (2011)

Champion boxer Artyom Kolchin climbed all conceivable heights and became a national hero. He does not enter the boxing ring any more, rather choosing a coaching job and wild high life, including continuous TV appearances, hanging out and love affairs. One ...

Generation P (2011)

Set in the ground zero of gangster globalism and driven by a truly manic energy, Generation P is at once a comedy, a tragedy and a fantasy about the rise of a poet-turned-adman through Russia's nascent advertising business during the Moscow roaring 1990s. ...

Orange Juice (2010)

Three people live in a cottage near Moscow: Steven, the owner of the house, an American millionaire of Russian origin; Egor, a young postgraduate doctor and Dasha, Stephen's next nurse. Steven, trying to get rid of everyday boredom, turns Dasha's life into ...

Close Enemy (2010)

Young woman decides to revenge her husband killers. ...

Out Of Order (2010)

A parliament member suddenly finds a dead body in his hotel room... ...

Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus (2010)

Epic film about WWII, a sequel to Utomlyonnye solntsem (1994). Evil Stalin is terrorizing people of Russia while the Nazis are advancing. Russian officer Kotov, who miraculously survived the death sentence in Stalin's Purge, is now fighting in the front-li ...

Kandahar (2010)

A docudrama about the escape of Russian pilots after being taken hostage by the Taliban in 1996. ...

Wolves (2009)

Just after the end of the WW II, Kirill Poletayev manages to escape from a train full of prisoners, which gets stuck in a snowdrift. After a strenuous escape through the winter forest, completely frozen and weakened, finally reaches his native village. Thi ...

Обречённые на войну (2009)

Buratino, Son of Pinocchio (2009)

Imagine a mix of Repo Man, Oliver! and Pinocchio and you're on the road to grasping the tone of this bizarre Estonian take on Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy's character Buratino, a wooden boy (or boyus woodenus, as the doctors in the film refer to him). Bura ...

Morphine (2008)

The year is 1917. We are in the Russian countryside. It is the middle of freezing winter. A pale young, newly educated doctor arrives. Having to deal with one medical challenge after another he soon becomes the center of everyone's attention. To soothe the ...

Illusion of Fear (2008)

Story of a successful businessman, who has to protect his business in difficult conditions. He gets entrapped into the net of law enforcement structures and after arrest the protagonist starts to notice weird things: some of his interlocutors appear to be ...

The Elder Wife (2008)

A simple family lives in the Kalmyk village - Baira and her husband Congress. They love each other, they cut and sell sheep together, they keep house, they never part and they don't know any other life. And suddenly the Congress brings a second wife to the ...

A Kiss Not for the Press (2008)

In the center of the film is a love story of a modest graduate of the St. Petersburg law faculty evasively answering a question about a job, and a flight attendant from Kaliningrad. The picture is based on the biography of Vladimir Putin. ...

Vanechka (2007)

A young girl dreaming to become an actress goes through hell with an orphan baby on her hands. The whole world seems to be against her. She meets the love of her life when there is no one to stand by her. ...

Revenge (2007)

When Artem Kolchin, Denis Nikiforov, arrives in the U.S. to fight for the championship, he soon finds himself fighting for his life after he sends a young, aggressive boxer, who provokes him into sparring, into a coma and ultimately killing him. That is wh ...

Gagarin's Grandson (2007)

Fyodor a single artist suddenly discovers about his young brother who is living in a foster home. ...

Bastards (2006)

A "Hitlerjugend" kind of story, set in the Soviet Union during the Second World War, based on a fictitious story from the eponymous book by Vladimir Kunin. ...

The Last Armored Train (2006)

Мена (2006)

Don't Cry Mommy 2 (2005)

A heroes from the first movie now are involved in high politics. ...

Dead Man's Bluff (2005)

Sergei and Simon have to deliver a suitcase full of heroin to Mikhalych or else they will be killed. There is one minor detail: the only problem-solving technique they are familiar with is a shot in the head. ...

Shadowboxing (2005)

Artem Kolchin was one of many, but he wanted glory. And he has chosen the way: he became the boxer. Now Artem the applicant for a champion title, fighter, known worldwide as Great White Hope. But the main fight in his life has not gone how he expected... ...

A Driver for Vera (2004)

The film is set during 1962 in Sevastopol, Crimea, then a secret Navy Base in the Soviet Union. General Serov hires Viktor, a cadet from the Kremlin Guard to work as his private chauffeur. In a jet-black "ZIM" limo, Viktor is chauffeuring the General's dis ...

The Rider Named Death (2004)

In pre-Soviet Russia, Boris Savinkov leads a terrorist faction of Socialist-Revolutionary Party members responsible for the deaths of governors and ministers. ...

Don't Even Think 2: Independence Play (2004)

This story is about three slacker friends: Marat (a video store worker); Belyj (an unsuccessful actor); and Nick (a cowardly marshal arts practitioner). Bored with their lives and wanting to instead live in style, the boys rob the richest and most respecte ...

Trio (2003)

Three people in the cab of truck: Alexei the driver, his partner Nikolai, and Marina, a prostitute they picked up on their way. Or so it seems... In fact, all three are police detectives. Their task: to uncover a gang that has been robbing long-haul trucks ...

Don't Even Think (2003)

A few young men are planning a criminal operation based on the action movies they saw. ...

The Suit (2003)

Three young Russian friends amuse themselves in a small seaside town with a series of minor adventures, some of which involve a new suit. ...

Summer Rain (2003)

After her foreign husband returns home to Germany, a young Russian woman finds true love with a doctor in Moscow. ...

Shukshin's Stories (2002)

Each of the short stories is based on either one or several stories by a wonderful Russian writer. The heroes are ordinary people "of the people", contemporaries of Shukshin, all of whose life's ups and downs are inextricably linked with their country - th ...

Spartacus and Kalashnikov (2002)

The story of street children and the dog who penetrate into the fast food restaurants at night and catching terrorists in spare time. ...

Life is full of fun (2002)

Provincial town near Moscow. Here in a large communal apartment several families live. Each has its own concerns, its interests, its troubles and joys. A communal apartment is not just a habitat. This is a kind of section of society. They are all very diff ...

Poisons or the World History of Poisoning (2001)

A story of an actor named Oleg whose wife has been seduced by his neighbor. As he is thoroughly convinced of her infidelity, he would like to poison her. An old man named Prokhorov helps him to get rid of his wife by lecturing about famous deaths caused by ...

Taiga Novel (2001)

Far East. 70th years. A small garrison on the border with China. Here, as everywhere, there are men and women. Everyone has his own story, his own destiny, his own love. The common thing is that they all came here once on duty and stayed for a long time. ...

24 Hours (2000)

Feliks, professional killer, has only 24 hours to get to the distant island, where his beloved woman and the money for the custom made is waiting for him. Lyova Shalamov and his brother Garik have also 24 hours to find and to kill Feliks. ...

Tender Age (2000)

A movie which at first seems like a simple life story of an ordinary young man slowly evolves into an extraordinarily told ballade with twofold meaning - sad and optimistic at the same time... ...

The Wedding (2000)

The beautiful Tanya returns to her small mining town, after supposedly working as a model in Moscow. She decides to marry her shy school sweetheart Mishka, who now works in the mine. The miners finally receive some pay, but Mishka still ends up with no mon ...

Instead of Me (2000)

Mommy (1999)

After Polina, a mother of six, loses her husband, who went to jail for stealing charcoal and was killed when he tried to escape, she stays behind without any support. To be able to survive, Polina and her family start a folk group. But soon she understands ...

Day of the Full Moon (1998)

Day of the Full Moon, a series of vignettes from Russia past and present, summons the spirit of Ophuls' La Ronde, Altman's Nashville and Short Cuts, and the time-shifting strategies of Resnais (Mon Oncle d'Amérique) to tell provocative, connected stories ...

Don't Cry Mommy (1997)

Wedding in a provincial seaside town. In the midst of the fun criminal authority Tourist begins to molest the bride, which infuriates the groom — merchant seaman. The bandits and the police decide to plant a sailor, but he runs away and on his quest sent ...

The Scoundrel 2 (1994)

Striaght Ahead (1992)

"Bob" finds himself in "the zone" by chance. At first - as a guard. But life in the zone on both sides of the bars is extremely dreary. So "Bob" and his friends drown out the boredom with vodka and local booze, continuing with riots and fights. But at one ...

Gagarin's Grandson (2007)

Fyodor a single artist suddenly discovers about his young brother who is living in a foster home. ...