Artur Vakha

The Wizard of the Emerald City, Part II (2027)

The heroes journey to the Purple Country and confront the witch Bastinda. ...

Knocker (2026)

The Snegirev family is preparing to celebrate the New Year together for the last time, after which Anfisa and Igor will tell their son Roma about the divorce. ...

The Tale of Tsar Saltan (2026)

One dark winter evening, the young tsar Saltan was lucky enough to find himself a tsarina from a simple Russian family. He was so impressed by the speech of the young charmer that he married her the same evening, and took her two sisters with him to the pa ...

«Onegin» Hotel (2025)

An animated fantasy film based on the novel by A.S. Pushkin and the opera by P.I. Tchaikovsky, created in a unique author's technique - frame-by-frame processing of game blanks on glass using light-painting glaze. Barry, a famous director-animator, has bee ...

The Wizard of the Emerald City, Part I (2025)

Ellie lives in a distant city. One day, the evil witch Gingema conjured a hurricane that took Ellie and her dog Totoshka to the country of the Munchkins. To return home, Ellie and her friends the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion will set of ...

The Owner (2023)

An ordinary man's life takes an unlikely turn when he saves the life of a high-ranking security officer in an accident. ...

Winter Season (2022)

The relationship between Katya and her mother cannot be called simple anyway, but here, in the midst of the working day, Katya learns that her mother never flew with her friend to the resort, disappearing from the airport in an unknown direction. Having le ...

Behind Closed Doors (2022)

Every Saturday fireman Anton Kalashnikov welcomes his 14-year-old daughter Kira from the dance. TV, dumplings for dinner - a standard set of entertainment from a Saturday dad for a teenage girl. But on this day, everything went wrong. Kira rings the interc ...

Mr. Knockout (2022)

The film tells the story of the legendary Soviet boxer Valery Popenchenko, USSR and European champion and winner of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. His life was a rollercoaster ride of ups and downs - from his childhood in Tashkent's Suvorov Military School and s ...

Ostap Bender: The Final Hustle (2021)

1919, Solnechnomorsk. Talented adventurers have become too unexpected: now they are wanted by the Russian and Turkish police. They go to the south of Russia to take possession of the golden scepter of Count Rumyantsev. In pursuit of a precious little thing ...

Hey, Grey (2020)

At death's door, a thriving businessman meets his old dog Grey, who he heartlessly threw out on the street many years ago. ...

Son of a Rich (2019)

Grigory, born into an oligarch family, is so spoiled that he believes he's above the law. When he faces jail, his father decides to 'rehabilitate' his son. An abandoned village is reconstructed, 19th century style. Grigory 'goes back in time', reincarnated ...

No Goodbyes (2018)

October 1941. Thousands of fascists troops are advancing on Kalinin to capture the city and therefore open a direct route to Moscow. There are two thousand people able to defend the city and they are without tanks or artillery. The only hope of holding the ...

Salyut-7 (2017)

USSR, June 1985. After contact with the Salyut 7 space station is lost, cosmonauts Vladimir Dzhanibekov and Viktor Savinykh dock with the empty, frozen craft, and bring her back to life. Based on actual events. ...

The Moth (2017)

The life of a woman suddenly changes after she meets a mysterious girl on a highway in the night. ...

The Icebreaker (2016)

The story is based on the real events of 1985. The team of a Russian polar icebreaker "Mikhail Gromov" discovered a giant iceberg. The ship came into collision while attempting to take cover from the weather and is forced to drift with ice along the Amunds ...

The Stars Have Aligned (2016)

An English correspondent arrives in Astana to interview the named Leader of the Nation Nazarbayev. Nazarbayev is hosting an English guest. The interview turns into Nazarbayev's story about life, fate and the difficult path of gaining independence. The Pres ...

Contribution (2016)

Perm, Siberia, 1918. the central Siberian White guard corps under the command of a young general Anatoliy Pepelyaev have taken the city. the army is exhausted and running short on supplies. the General tasks the Permian merchants with collecting the money ...

The Battalion (2015)

Russia, 1917, WWI. This is the story of the 1st Russian Women's Battalion of Death, formed as part of an ill-conceived propaganda ploy by the Russian Provisional Government in late May of 1917. ...

Dear Mom! (2014)

Twenty years old Slavik confronts a big problem: who to support - his Mom or his girlfriend Zhenya who are in a constant fight. ...

Gena-Concrete (2014)

A journalist finds himself in a dire criminal situation. Some would resort to violence, but he picks up a pen and masterfully extricates himself from the predicament, turning the entire city upside down in the process. ...

Chagall-Malevich (2014)

The film is an attempt to recreate the world of Marc Chagall and his myth within the genre of a folklore ballad. We are not exploiting Chagall's images, but are attempting to create a dramatized projection of his creativity onto the movie screen, relying o ...

Sky Court (2012)

Lawyers Andrew and Benjamin are friends who share a lot, but their work puts them on opposite sides. Their trials do not occur in this life but in the afterlife. They are members of the Sky Court deciding where a human soul should go after death- Heaven or ...

Four-eyes (2011)

Boris Izotov is a simple literature teacher who adores his wife and little daughter. Every year they celebrate a family holiday in a cafe. But he was a little late for the last celebration - he stayed at school. By tragic accident, it is in this cafe that ...

Trait (2009)

A ten-year-old orphan gets adopted by a man pursued by the Mob. After surviving a hit man's attack, by a strange twist of circumstances the new foster father now has the would-be-killer's appearance, that of his son's biological dad. ...

Angel's Aisle (2008)

In a year of 1924 a commissar from Soviet Russia is trying to find and kill Finnish general. ...

The Game (2008)

The film takes place at the training base of the Russian national team. The eyes of the whole country are riveted to this place, our players train here in the remaining few days before the match. All those who help them win work here: coaches, administrato ...

Alexander: The Neva Battle (2008)

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 ...

Dangerous Combination (2008)

Europe - Asia (2008)

Somewhere in the Urals, between the European and the Asian parts of Russia, there is a stele called "Europe-Asia". Professional swindlers have taken a liking to this place. For several days in a row a wedding is taking place by the roadside. They hide unde ...

Mechta (2007)

События развиваются вокруг лотерейного билета, выброшенного за ненадобностью археологами, которых интересует только их наука. Но оказывае ...

Seven Booths (2007)

What, it would seem, could be more innocent than a women's toilet being renovated? In his booths you can hide from the bustle of the big city, discuss lovers, drink, cry, sleep, smoke and have sex... And you can also hide in it what no one should find. An ...

Klinika (2006)

Это клиника. Со всей размеренной и страшной жизненной рутиной. Усталые врачи и страдающие пациенты, вечная нищета и нехватка самого необход ...

Brezhnev (2005)

A biographical TV movie about Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev that originally aired in four parts on Russia's Channel One. While nostalgic, the film does not attempt to rehabilitate Brezhnev. ...

Urgent Freight (2005)

Based on the short story of the same name by B. Lavrenev. The drama is about a boy, a boiler cleaner, stuck in the pipe of a steamer. And about the people who, despite all circumstances, have to deliver urgent freight... ...

The Tale of Fedot, the Shooter (2002)

Fedot the Shooter is sent by the Czar to find some special food for the foreign ambassador's visit. During the hunt Fedot meets his love Marusya - the magical bird-woman. Evil Czar and his no-less-evil sidekick General with the help of the local witch Yaga ...

Cinema, Cinema, or the Inevitable Spring (1999)

A kaleidoscope of scenes, events, memories, funny and sad love stories, optional meetings and misunderstood dreams — all this belongs to a filmmaker trying his best to make a film. ...

Chetvyortaya Planeta (1995)

Three astronauts (two Russians and American) find a very Soviet-alike small town on the fourth planet from Sun. ...

Everything Will Be All Right (1995)

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 intelle ...

You Are My Only Love (1993)

A love story of two people which turns out into triangle... So the steady family walls do not seem so steady anymore... ...

Goblin Sanctuary (1993)

Jokes (1990)

Vasily Kutuzov, the namesake of the famous commander, ends up in a mental hospital because of his talent for making up jokes. Everyone in his family had this gift, and many suffered because of it. The authorities didn't like that the Kutuzovs were botherin ...

Sideburns (1990)

A small provincial town is home to two rival teenage gangs, one devoted to loose living and punk music and the other a collection of narrow-minded bodybuilders obsessed with order and convinced of their own moral rectitude. However, this cosy state of affa ...

Cyrano de Bergerac (1989)

Long-nosed Cyrano de Bergerac helps an army officer woo Roxanne, the woman he loves. ...

The Environment (1987)

Rare materials go missing from the archive. A conflict arises between two researchers—Ozerov and Rozhkin—over these missing materials. ...

Who Are You, Horseman? (1987)

An English company is developing a gold deposit. Its representative, Allan Kane, is trying to hide some of the gold and take it abroad. In pursuit of the golden caravan, an unthinkable deadly battle unfolds. ...