Artur Smolyaninov

Minotaur (2026)

When Gleb, a successful company director, finds himself under siege from mounting corporate pressures, an increasingly unstable world, and the discovery of his wife's affair, the collapse of his carefully ordered life accelerates toward violence. ...

The Jew (2023)

The USSR, 1946. The main character, Mikhail Krasnitsky, travels to different cities across the country. When he arrives, he commits cold-blooded murders, for reasons that are not yet evident. The Secret Service manages to connect all of these crimes and fi ...

Montevideo Unit (2023)

A film about the drama of a talented doctor who fell into a chain of tragic accidents - the death of his wife, psychological trauma that led to the loss of his voice, imprisonment, his daughter's drug addiction and a suicide attempt - but who found the str ...

Together More Fun (2022)

Lovelace Petr arrives for a housewarming party in a new house with his parents, where he meets Polina and falls in love with her. The girl is not affected by the tricks of the young man, which he always used in relation to others. Peter is perplexed and us ...

Kalashnikov AK-47 (2020)

A Russian military propaganda film about the tank commander Kalashnikov, severely injured in battle in 1941. The accident leaves him incapacitated and unable to return to the front line. While recovering in the hospital, he begins creating the initial sket ...

Квартирник НТВ у Маргулиса. Новогодний выпуск. Незваные гости (2018)

All or Nothing (2018)

Office plankton is a dangerous animal if pissed off. Three unsuccessful managers unite in an almost criminal gang in an attempt to overthrow the insolent boss who shamelessly rob the company. ...

Piter by Kasta (2018)

Four stories about Saint Petersburg through the eyes of ordinary guys who have seen a lot on their path, but have not betrayed themselves. The film casts famous Russian hip-hop band KASTA. ...

Life Ahead (2017)

Old classmates finally meet each other after 15 years since graduation from school and that's an amazing opportunity to travel back in time. Old secrets and personal vendettas, hard feelings and first loves turn to fever pitch. ...

To Be (2017)

Anti-utopia. The last survivor in search of food. ...

The Passenger (2017)

Moscow. 1970. The hero of the USSR, cosmonaut Nikolai Valerievich Basov, tries to recover from a tragedy that darkened his life. He leads a solitary life, having withdrawn into his apartment. Nikolai hardly notices the world around him and can no longer re ...

Yana+Yanko (2017)

Yana Titova is a very successful businesswoman, editor-in-chief of a fashion glossy magazine. She considers herself a self-sufficient, accomplished woman and supports "child-free". It doesn't bother Yana at all that at thirty-eight she doesn't have a husba ...

Ivan Tsarevich & the Grey Wolf 3 (2016)

Prince Ivan, Grey Wolf and Vasilisa set off on a magic carpet ride to new lands as the deputy scarecrow in charge of the kingdom sets new rules. ...

Two Four Legs (2016)

Six Degrees of Celebration 1914 (2014)

100 years ago, the Russian Empire ... Christmas Eve. December plugs, holiday celebrations, balls and modest luxury holidays, titled nobles and ordinary peasants, the royal family and the soldiers of the First World War, progressive poets and the first skat ...

Breaking Loose (2014)

Four best friends. They've been to war, they've seen life, but they are still passionate, young and willing to serve their country. They found their place at OMON - Russian Special Police Squad. They can count only on each other, and their real family is t ...

Redirected (2014)

Four friends become stranded in Eastern Europe and have to become hit men, prostitutes, corrupt cops, smugglers and more to make it home. ...

Ivan Tsarevich & the Grey Wolf 2 (2013)

Marital doldrums and second thoughts beset Ivan and Vasilisa's "happily ever after", until boredom leads to a staged abduction. ...

A Habit of Breaking-Up (2013)

This is a story about a girl in search of the man of her life... While she tries to find him she asks herself what was the reason of the break ups. She visits all of her ex-boyfriends to find the reason. Later on she starts a blog on the web to keep all t ...

12 Months (2013)

Masha Smirnova is a young girl who came to Moscow to conquer the big city. Here she finds a way to make all here wishes come true. But for other people this way is not so pleasant, sometimes even painful. ...

Princess' War (2013)

A refugee boy from the war-torn Caucasus region in Southern Russia in the 1990s falls in love with a Russian girl, Princess. Their respective gangs, set on religious and ethnic intolerance, stand in the way of their love. ...

Love with an Accent (2012)

From odd situations to complicated emotions, various obstacles test a group of people in their pursuits of true love in this collection of stories. ...

Soulless (2012)

It's a story of 29-year-old top-manager Max who is really sure he is absolutely successful. All his life is around earning and spending money. But one day he meets a girl who is from another, real, world. And his own world starts to crash down. ...

Unreal Love (2012)

A successful careerist is in the love triangle between her shy colleague and high-profile boss. Thinking that she can't get involved with married men anymore Elya tries online dating and falls in love with some mysterious dude in the Internet. ...

Fairy Tale. There Is (2012)

A set of novels about children and their parents. ...

Ivan Tsarevich & the Grey Wolf (2011)

With a cheeky wolf as a travel companion, a prince from a faraway kingdom embarks on a quest to win a princess's heart. ...

The Darkest Hour (2011)

In Moscow, five young people lead the charge against an alien race which has attacked Earth via our power supply. ...

Moy paren - angel (2011)

Sasha, a young student falls in love with... an angel. ...

Five Brides (2011)

May, 1945... A young pilot Aleksey Kaverin stationed in Germany is going home to Russia for vacation. The problem is he needs to bring a bride. And not only to himself but to four his friends as well. ...

Without Men (2011)

Two women meet by happenstance traveling from Moscow to Perm. After their flight is delayed, Aleksandra and Zhenia spend a night in Moscow that turns out to be full of unforeseeable adventures. ...

Burnt by the Sun 2: Citadel (2011)

The final part of Mikhalkov's trilogy about Divisional Commander Kotov finds him returning home during World War II having been betrayed, narrowly escaped execution for treason and nearly reduced to dust in a prison camp. Only to discover that everything h ...

Six Degrees of Celebration (2010)

A collection of several interlinked stories that happen on the New Year's eve... ...

A Yakuza's Daughter Never Cries (2010)

Yuriko, a daughter of Yakudza boss is lost in Russia. Here she finds Alexey - a young man who is trying to help her. ...

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 ...

The Irony of Love (2010)

An affair which starts as a bet between a three girls suddenly become a big love story... ...

Будь со мной (2009)

Romance, in Russian language ...

The Book of Masters (2009)

A beautiful and kind girl, daughter of Baba Yaga, finds a magical stone Alatyr while walking in a field. It transforms her heart into a stone and puts her under a queer curse. She is to be the evil Countess of Stones and live in a stone tower. If the great ...

I Am (2009)

The film tells the story of a young Russian in the early 90s, trying to escape the army in a psychiatric clinic. He's released years later, after intensive compulsory treatment. Has a documentary film maker he gets involved in the Chechen conflict, where h ...

Stories on Human Rights (2008)

20 short films about human rights. ...

The One Who Switches Off the Light (2008)

For two months a serial killer has been terrorizing the city of St. Petersburg. Every Wednesday a girl between 9 and 12 years old is the victim. The brutality of the maniac plunges city residents into horror. Parents are afraid of leaving their children al ...

Nirvana (2008)

Young Alisa is fed up with her life in Moscow, and moves to St. Petersburg. Her roommates in the collective flat are two junkies, Vel and her boyfriend Valera the Dead Man. First they fight, but soon the two women form a friendship. Together they even go a ...

I'm Standing on the Edge (2008)

Border guard Andrei discovers hiding places where drug dealers hide huge quantities of heroin while crossing the Afghan border. In revenge for their colossal losses, the bandits decide to execute Andrey. Miraculously escaping death, he not only settles acc ...

1612: Chronicles of the Dark Time (2007)

The czar of Russia has died and a power vacuum has developed. This period in the late 16th and early 17th century has been called "The Time of Troubles." There are many impostors who claim to the right to rule, but there's only one heir, the Czarina Kseniy ...

Mermaid (2007)

The fanciful tale of an introverted little girl who grows up believing she has the power to make wishes come true. She must reconcile this belief with reality when, as a young woman, she journeys to Moscow and grapples with love, modernity and materialism. ...

The Heat (2006)

Four good folks from schools got reunion in a summer café on the bank of River Moskva, and they had an unthinkable trouble to deal with check, though one of them is so rich. One by one, a friend left the table to find solution and everyone of them met wit ...

The Last Bottomhole (2006)

A drama about a life of ordinary people in a small mining town. ...

9th Company (2005)

Russian army recruits complete training and take their posting in late 1980s Afghanistan, where the insurgents are slowly gaining the upper hand. ...

Naked Pioneer (2005)

A musical battle mystery with a cheerful war and pure love, with circus attractions and a real Lyuboffyorlova, as well as the recorded phenomenon of the Blessed Virgin Mary and strategic night flights of an absolutely naked pioneer! ...

Mars (2004)

Somewhere deep, deep in Russia there is a town called Marks (named after Karl Marks, founder of Communism theory) where all people are working on toy factory and receiving their wages as toys. News from other cities are arriving on very rare occasion. One ...

Daddy (2004)

Based on A. Galych's play "Matrosskaya Tishina", "Papa" tells a story of a Jewish father who dreamed of seeing his son perform on a stage in front of huge audiences, he dreamed of seeing him as the greatest violinist of his time. To achieve the goal he tau ...

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. ...

The Red One: Triumph (2000)

Andrei, nicknamed Red, is a young drug dealer, trawling hotel corridors, selling little bags of hits to hookers and businessmen alike. Shrewd and tough, he has seen more than his fair share of life. But he has a problem - a rival gang, the Abreks, have mov ...

Who, If Not Us (1998)

This movie deals with two friends, 13-14 year old boys. One comes from a more or less stable home (although he is growing up with single mom) and another comes from a broken up family. One day the kids break into a store to pretty much have fun and get som ...