Marina Razbezhkina

Wife to Be (2024)

The film focuses on women from a family living in southern Russia: two sisters, their mother, and grandmother. Every summer, the younger women visit the elders, returning to their roots and embracing a traditional way of life. This household is deeply matr ...

Appointment (2023)

Viktor Ryzhakov takes charge of the Sovremennik theatre after the death of Galina Volchek, who led the troupe for almost half a century and enjoyed absolute authority. For the theatre's first new production, the new artistic director chooses a play about a ...

Cages (2021)

Nikita is 25 years old and has a rare genetic condition that makes his skin very fragile and untreatable. Such people are usually called "butterflies". Together with his girlfriend Leroy, they are looking for a way to stop the development of the disease an ...

Chillnobyl (2021)

Igor and his friends dream of having a rave in Chernobyl to rethink the space of a man-made disaster through life and art. However, they are faced with a reality where their idea is opposed by unfounded fears, corruption and hypocrisy of officials. The fil ...

Idyll (2020)

Everyone has their own buzz. For him, the high is war. He was in love with the war as a woman, and the feelings did not go away. He can't go back into battle. All he has now is the house of mercy, the monastery on the next street, and the desire to start a ...

After The Tide (2020)

The dusty roads of Odessa preserve and tangle the traces of many a traveler. Led by the shadow of Kira Muratova and their desire to follow her footsteps, Anya and Gleb set out on a journey to find the keepers of her memory, and the characters of her films. ...

Joy (2020)

In the circus tent „Joy" the same thing happens every day – they dismantle and assemble the tent with a dome full of stars, give performances, and move on to the next place. Lynx and parrot trainers quarrel over every little thing, and Valera the clown ...

One Way (2019)

Last road in the ambulance. The driver - a cheerful Armenian - comes to those who can no longer be helped and becomes for them a guide between life and death. The road, meanwhile, shines with bright lights, erodes in an abstract pattern, yells with sirens. ...

Wild Boar Piglet (2019)

They say that if a daughter looks like a father, then she will certainly be happy. But what if you look like a person whom you have never seen in your life? And all you know about him is speculation, fantasy and a small bronze figure. ...

Concentrate On Breathing (2019)

How to become another person in 30 days? Find a way to try 30-year-old Albina, who is in search of a good well-paid job. To make a difficult path to updating Albina, not only home-based online learning helps, but also the Challenge diary, which daily chall ...

Secretary Of Ideology (2019)

Ivan Komendantov is only 16 years old. But he is already the secretary for ideology of the Stalingrad district committee of the Komsomol of Moscow. Vanya wants to quickly become an adult, so he enthusiastically takes up any business: whether it be the rise ...

Scenes (2019)

Kind Souls (2019)

Novorzhev is a small town in the Pskov region. After six in the evening, its streets are empty, and it seems that life in this place has stopped. But she is in full swing at the House of Culture, where local residents rehearse the play based on a play by a ...

Heavy Metal (2018)

In this documentary, we are not going to discover anything about the eponymous musical genre, but instead we will meet a group of workers dismantling a high-rise building made of concrete and metal. The filmmakers observe and register their labour using in ...

The Potato Eaters (2018)

What is going to happen if the painting of the great Dutch artist suddenly comes to life in a half-abandoned Russian village? ...

Hopscotch (2018)

The last few years, Matthew and Kate live in the village. An event occurs in their lives that leads to a radical redefinition of relationships. The past and the present are intertwined into one confused story in which the characters lose sleep, drive each ...

Vacation (2018)

"Vacation" is a story about a big family, a small town and a strong feeling. The life of a foster family, where there is one mother for five, is strict discipline and established rules. Everything collapses when the eldest daughter's boyfriend comes for th ...

Engineer Fedorovich (2018)

My grandmother is 96 years old. She dreamed of becoming a ballerina, and became an engineer. I made this film because I wanted to understand who she really is, but instead I understood a little about myself. ...

My Love (2018)

True Kazakh girls don't marry Russians. This is what grandma Zeinegul believes in. But her beloved granddaughter disobeyed her will. Many years later the girl comes back to Kazakhstan. Her mother drinks, her grandma prays, her father got married again, but ...

Signs of Life (2018)

In Russia's Republic of Tatarstan a city of the future is being built. Named Innopolis, it was officially opened in 2015 and is the first new town to be built in Russia since the collapse of the USSR. The best IT specialists travel there from all over the ...

Jammed (2018)

Graduated of the institute, Nikita comes to work at the best Kostroma's factory. Now it is essential for him to learn how to dust down the veneer sheets and to put them into the dryer in the right way. ...

Hey, Bro! (2018)

Mark is 18, and his buddy Kirill is 20. They've been friends for just a month but they're obviously meant for each other. They both crave attention and have a provocative attitude to the world around them. They dance together on the railings of Moscow's Kr ...

Kolya as the Mirror of the Russian Revolution (2018)

A simple journey from point A to point B turns into an equation with a lot of unknowns, if you are 20 years old and you are Kolya. ...

Exact Time (2018)

There are those who follow the course of time. As in Soviet times, they adjust the accuracy of the clock in the astronomical institute every day. The clock runs fast, then slow, and we are left to wonder exactly what time we live in. ...

Film for Carlos (2017)

Carlos has been just born. He is the sweetest of the babies, but his grandmother is very sorry that he's was born dark skin. Grandfather Sergey Mikhailovich wants to drink to the health of his grandson and celebrate this event, but grandmother doesn't allo ...

Monologue (2017)

The war in Abkhazia ended more than twenty years ago. But the shadows wandering in the corridors of the republican psychoneurological hospital still remind us of its impact. Sometimes we see ourselves in those shadows and glimpse fragments of reality in th ...

Go to (2017)

Varya is sixteen. Varya doesn't go to school. Varya asks that she be called Sasha. Varya has a goal - to go to St. Petersburg. She plays the violin in the train, earning a trip. But the trip of a dream turns out to be a dangerous adventure, in which everyt ...

The Punishment (2017)

The convicts of the female penal-colony Marina, Olya and Albina are waiting to be released. To pass the time they decide to make puppets, sew them and stage a small performance. ...

In the Eye of the Storm (2016)

In the event of natural disaster, turn off electricity and gas, hide your valuable objects, lock the house, climb onto the roof, and maybe you will survive. Natasha, 12 years old, knows these instructions by heart. So, while waiting for the storm, she laug ...

Paper Stars (2016)

Thirteen-year-old Alina is going to summer camp. There, she shares a room with five other girls and takes part in the daily activities, which include games on the beach and lots of sports. At first she hangs back, hesitant, but she quickly finds her place ...

In Another World (2016)

Kasia (40) has two teenage kids, is happily married and loved. She is a middle-class woman with a high education and a managerial position at work. Her life is perfectly organized and is a stream of successes. One day her peaceful and perfect life is destr ...

All Roads Lead to Afrin (2016)

A Russian girl, a Kurdish father. The father lives in Syria, in a town near the Turkish border. The girl joins him to meet her new family and... to find her lost roots. Everything moves forward in fragments, of time and of space. It is not only an aestheti ...

Here and Now (2016)

Sakhalin is a distant island. It is swept away by April snowstorms, and if you leave there, then forever. And if you stay, then for good and for great love. Masha turns thirty, and she still hasn't left. And she still hasn't stayed. She can't decide. Or de ...

Russian Tour (2016)

A group of (mostly) European (mostly) avant-garde jazz musicians embarks on a musical tour across Russia. The plan is to travel 20,000 km, from Moscow to Vladivostok, on a bus. The project is organized and solely handled by Yury, Russian discipline-loving ...

Twin (2015)

Two twin brothers. Bright and charismatic. One paints temples, the other writes musicals. And for three years they have not communicated and live in different cities. What has separated them? Different views on life and creativity or love for the same girl ...

Not My Job (2015)

The documentary follows the life of Farroukh, a young Tajik immigrant who lives in Moscow outskirts with his family and does odd jobs in dreams of becoming an actor. ...

Products (2015)

The whole life of this village was concentrated in one shop. To the saleswoman Tatiana go for chicken, vodka and medicines; go to learn news, bask, ask for money, complain, celebrate holidays. All roads lead to the "Products". ...

The Chechen (2015)

The Chechen Ruslan Arsajev seizes every opportunity to fight against the Russians, including in Ukraine. A portrait of a displaced mercenary from the front line of the crisis. ...

Mousetrap (2015)

Can one escape from family to get into a mental hospital? An overdose of drugs – and you are "free". Now Dasha lies on a hospital bed, paints and smokes. She smokes. And smokes. And smokes... A closed space of the mental hospital is more and more hard to ...

Yamaha (2015)

Armed with nothing more than a Yamaha keyboard, Valentin commutes back and forth between his shared flat and a metro underpass in search of happiness. ...

Zviszhi (2014)

It takes 20 minutes on foot to get from the town of Nikola-Lenivets to the village of Zvizzhi. Nikola-Lenivets is the site of Arkhstoyaniye, a most fashionable festival of landscape objects. Zviszhi is the place where Val'ka, Lyudka, Zhen'ka and a sixty-ye ...

The Farm (2014)

Seven years ago Svetlana bought a large farm with land and cattle, sold all her business in the city and left alone for 200 km from Moscow. To do a new thing. ...

Not leaving natures (2014)

Every evening a group of grandmothers-druzhinnits appears on the outskirts of Kaluga. Almost all of them over eighty. Armed with red armbands and a formidable word, they come out to clean up their neighborhood. To local drunkards to drink in a court yard b ...

Together (2014)

Two people are on the road. Everyday life, business calls, games, a curve of the highway, a swing and again business calls... During this year the father and the daughter have not seen much of each other and they have not been alone for a long time. Two ca ...

If I were (2014)

Vova Kayukov suffers from a severe form of cerebral palsy. After the death of his mother from cancer, he lives in a psycho-neurological boarding school near St. Petersburg. His life consists, basically, of watching endless TV shows and TV shows, as well as ...

The Last Russian Limousine (2014)

Faced with the relentless demise of the factory they work at, Mikhail, Andrey, Nina, Vladimir, Nadia and Luda – bosses, foremen, engineers and workers at the giant Moscow automobile plant ZIL – cling to their established routines and professional pride ...

Optical Axis (2013)

Russian photographer Maksim Dmitriev liked reality, and in the beginning of the 20 century, he photographed bums, workers, farmers, bankers, and monks. Hundred yours later we showed these photographs to nowadays heroes. And they recognized each other. ...

Почему я тут (2013)

Alekhin (2012)

Fly-on-the-wall documentary on the day-to-day life of Evgeniy Alyokhin, russian poet and musician, and his girlfrend Oksana. ...

S.P.A.R.T.A. - The Territory Of Happiness (2012)

SPARTA is the Agricultural Poetized Association for the Development of Labor Activity. This is how the commune calls itself, which has been engaged in the development of the "Theory of Happiness" in the Ukrainian village "Karavan" for more than 20 years. U ...

Winter, Go Away! (2012)

Ten director graduates from Marina Razbezhkina's School of Documentary Film and Documentary Theatre lived with a camera for two months in order to chronicle the last "Russian winter" and its popular uprising against Vladimir Putin's presidential run. Peopl ...

September 25 (2011)

A provincial Russian family killed off by suicide, murder and manslaughter and a boy who asks about guilt and forgiveness in the midst of all this squalor. Shockingly great. ...

Ata (2011)

"Ata" is translated from Kazakh as "grandfather". The story of the 80-year-old blind grandfather was filmed in the south of Kazakhstan. ...

Portmanteau Film Dedicated to the Fires of Summer 2010 (2011)

Summer 2010. The entire central part of Russia is engulfed in fires. The authors of the films of the almanac together with the volunteers go to the epicenter of events. Volunteers, foresters, firefighters – they are not heroes in the usual sense of the w ...

The Superstar's Only Role (2010)

Susanna, a sixty-four year old actress, lives with her mother and for a long time hasn't played in the theatre; only occasionally she appears at small venues with poetic concert programs. But she is haunted by the play, which she rehearsed more than twenty ...

The Flea Waltz (2010)

Two different worlds. On the one hand - porters, who bear pianos. On the other hand - people, who the porters visit – musicians, new Russian "middle class". What is the dialog between them? How does it clear for each of them - what is the musical instrum ...

Why Are You Lacking Faith? (2008)

The son of the village priest is obsessed with the idea of taking a look at the world from his father's belfry. But he can't cope with is fear of the height on his own. His mother helps him. For whom will this ascent become a feat? And what is feat of life ...

The Hollow (2007)

Yar is a place that keeps people, and they can't part with it. If they leave, they will die. The only one who wants to escape from the Yar is our main character Karev. But leaving the Yar, he thereby breaks with all traditional values, and unwittingly beco ...

Holidays (2006)

The Mansi children on a boarding school in the small Russian village Ivdel are impatiently waiting for winter holidays. They are looking forward to return to their home village, where there is no television or video games. It takes a whole day to get to th ...

Harvest Time (2004)

A beautiful portrait of a woman living in a small Russian village after World War II. A piercing meditation on family unity. ...

Just Life (2001)

Shurochka, the film's hero, spends her life walking from one village to another in order to weigh tractors. Yet, this makes just one part of her existence. She dances to Utiosov's songs, she smiles to the pictures of old Soviet actresses and shows a wonder ...

Strange Freedom of Being (1995)

Documentary about the abbot of Raifa Monastery, Archimandrite Vsevolod. ...

End of the Road (1991)

80-year-old Zinaida Gorshkova, the last resident of the village of Otary, Mari SSR, entertains herself: walking through the forest, she sings songs that her decrepit memory still preserves: Soviet times of collectivization, church songs from childhood. In ...

And What About Your Backyard? (1987)

About youth gangs on the streets of Kazan. ...

The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov (2017)

August 2015, a courtroom in Rostov-on-Don. A man is peering through the bars of his cage, his eyes reveal that his nerves are about to snap. Today he will be handed down a sentence to which he must submit: 20 years' imprisonment in Siberia for terrorism. T ...

Bronsky (2012)

The film is a portrait of a young writer Alexander Sarapov (literary pseudonym of Bronsky) from a small closed city of Zelenogorsk, Krasnoyarsky kray. His work had a great influence on people close to him and aroused interest among the leading figures of c ...