Pavel Kostomarov

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 ...

Vongozero: The Outbreak (2019)

A deadly virus of unknown origin has decimated Moscow. Sergey, along with his girlfriend and their autistic son are joined by his exwife, their son and several fellows to escape the quarantine zone lest they suffer a slow and painful death. Somewhere far a ...

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 ...

Georg Cantor - Der Entdecker der Unendlichkeiten (2018)

Lake Vostok. At the Mountains of Madness (2017)

More than 100 years ago, explorers raced to discover the South Pole. Now scientists are racing to discover the secret subterranean world of rivers and lakes buried miles beneath it. In 1974, scientists made a sensational discovery: a vast lake underneath t ...

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 ...

The Discrete Charm of Geometry (2015)

A team of mathematicians is working together on a big project. Excitement of discovery, hope and disappointment, competition and recognition are shown from an infinitely close distance. Scientists united by the idea of discretization, which, in short, mean ...

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 ...

The Letter (2013)

A remote village in the Northwest of Russia. A mental asylum is located in an old wooden house. The place and its inhabitants seem to be untouched by civilization. In this pristine setting, no articulate human voice is heard, and pain is muted. The landsca ...

A Long and Happy Life (2013)

Sascha lives in a village on the Kola Peninsular in northern Russia and dedicatedly manages what is left of an old collective farm. He gets on well with his farm workers who respect him and also tolerate his more or less clandestine love-affair with Anya, ...

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 ...

Till Night Do Us Part (2012)

A genuine satiric comedy, based on real conversations - both amusing and sad - overheard by a journalist in one of the most expensive Moscow restaurants. Hilarious and revealing, this is a film about women who choose between affection and money, film produ ...

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. ...

There's No Hurry (2012)

Every year, 25,000 people die on Russian roads. You could say a whole city is disappearing from our planet. And about a third of its "residents" were involved in an accident due to speeding. Many drivers do not consider acceleration even at 30 km / h a vio ...

Boris Godunov (2011)

Our eternal theme is crime and punishment. In Boris Godunov, the problems of conscience and existential choice are linked to the history of the country. Pushkin says that these things are woven into a mysterious knot or pattern. The choice of each of us is ...

Loafers‎ (2011)

The film is based on the early songs of Viktor Tsoi. This is a story about a young slacker, easy and fun going through life. He strumming a guitar and composing songs. Drinks with idle friends. The usual, almost domestic, history of betrayal changes everyt ...

How I Ended This Summer (2010)

A polar station on a desolate island in the Arctic Ocean. Sergei, a seasoned meteorologist, and Pavel, a recent college graduate, are spending months in complete isolation on the once strategic research base. Pavel receives an important radio message and i ...

Two Together (2009)

A film about the Ukrainian artist Vladimir Loboda and his wife Lyudmila. ...

List of Ships (2008)

The authors of the project tried to understand the transformations that the image of the ship underwent in the human mind: a pirate ship of threat was replaced by a romantic ship of love, and a heroic warship turned into a deadly ghost ship. The "lecture" ...

The Mother (2007)

The film chronicles everyday struggle of a Russian woman for "ordinary" happiness of her family. ...

Simple Things (2007)

A dying actor asks a doctor to help him commit suicide in return for a masterpiece. ...

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 ...

Peaceful Life (2004)

The dramatic story of two Chechens, father and son, living in a remote northern village. During the Chechen war, the Sultan's wife was killed, his house was destroyed. Now he and his son Apti are trying to build a new peaceful life. They are completely dis ...

Landscape (2003)

Winter. A bus stop in a small village. People are waiting for a bus. They talk. Listening to their conversations, the viewer can imagine the world they live in. United by the movement of the camera, the place and the people blend together. ...

The Stroll (2003)

Today's twenty-something Russians are the first generation in the country's post-communist history to have grown up free. Their twenties are the age of freedom, of fast-changing events and intense emotions. Perhaps only at this age they can live a whole li ...

Transformator (2003)

On the road between Moscow and Saint Petersburg, two lorry drivers are waiting for help after an accident. But the wait proves to be a long one. ...

Portrait (2002)

This movie is a collection of portraits of residents of Russian countryside. Not a single word. Only long look into the camera. Landscape. Flow of time. ...

Broadway. Black Sea (2002)

Refugees from the Caucasian republics, Armenians, Azerbaijanis and Russians, meet on the shore of the Black Sea: they work as shop keepers, life guards, karaoke singers, or just enjoy their holidays. It all happens at a place called Broadway, which is no-w ...

The Settlement (2001)

This movie is about a day in life of the settlement for people with mental problems. Located in a peaceful countryside, it conveys an image of a pure, happy place, where people live and work together, in complete harmony. But there is a growing unexplainab ...

The Halt (2000)

Trains travel through the night without stopping. The clatter of the carriages quickly disappears, along with the wail of the locomotive. The people at the station are all asleep. But why are they so exhausted ? And what are they waiting for? Set inside a ...

A Chronicle of Reality (2023)

Story of Lendoc (Leningrad Documentary Films Studio). ...

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 ...

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. ...