Pavel Lungin

It's All Right (2024)

The plot is reminiscent of a fairy tale, when the husband goes sailing, and as a farewell, the wife ties a thread to his button so that she knows where her beloved is. ...

Vasilisa and the Queen of Likes (2024)

The main character of the film Vasilisa - "mischievous, crafty girl." The genre of tape is magical realism. ...

My Captain (2022)

Two teenagers accidentally capture a representative of the authorities. When adults come home, they don't understand what to do next. One thing is clear - it is impossible to release the prisoner. The film shows how, according to the director, the captain ...

Woman's View (2021)

A sensuous anthology of five short stories directed by young female directors with their own unique vision. Each of the stories in its own way examines different aspects of the life of modern women, plunging into their problems and experiences. The novel " ...

The Savage (2020)

PTU student falls in love with a teacher of philosophy. ...

Purity (2020)

Garbage thrown out of the window during a party becomes a trigger for a chain of events that the guys can no longer stop. ...

Great Poetry (2019)

"Great Poetry" is about two guys who live on the outskirts of Moscow and work as cash collectors. They're young, lonely, and all they have in the world is each other. They spend their lives moving money for other people. They attend a poetry class at the l ...

Esau (2019)

A 40-year-old writer returns to his family house where he was raised and that he escaped after half a lifetime - to face his brother who stayed instead, inherited their family bakery and married the woman who they both loved. ...

Leaving Afghanistan (2019)

1988-1989. The end of the Soviet-Afghan war. The USSR begins its withdrawal from Afghanistan. Soviet General Vasiliev's son - a pilot named Alexander gets kidnapped by the mujahideen after his airplane crashes. As a result the 108th motorized infantry divi ...

Observer (2018)

Queen of Spades (2016)

Once upon a time, the great soprano Sofia Mayer conquered the world with her voice, her beauty and the legend she carefully built around herself. Now only the legend remains — the diva herself hasn't performed for years, nor been seen in the glittering c ...

The Conductor (2012)

The famous conductor (Vladas Bagdonas) goes with his orchestra to Jerusalem to perform the oratorio "St. Matthew Passion." The day before he receives a telegram, stating the suicide of his son, who lived in Israel. Conductor at the time denied the artist's ...

The Convoy (2012)

Following a brawl, Captain Ignat, who is traumatised by the death of his daughter, is ordered together with a regular soldier to find a deserter and bring him back via Moscow to stand before a military court. Although they locate the young soldier, their j ...

I'm Waiting for You... (2010)

The film is about a hermit living in the taiga. The main character, Roman, earns his living by taking wealthy clients who are sent by a travel company to hunt. His friends also come to stay from time to time. ...

Tsar (2009)

In 16th-century Russia in the grip of chaos, Ivan the Terrible strongly believes he is vested with a holy mission. Believing he can understand and interpret the signs, he sees the Last Judgment approaching. He establishes absolute power, cruelly destroying ...

Practical Joke (2008)

Remake film. Russian drama school domination. In the last quarter of graduating class comes a new student, violating all classifications, and an affront to the leader. That, in turn, is ready to do anything not to give up this title until the end of school ...

White Lilacs (2008)

From his childhood in Russia to his last days in California, the tumultuous ininerary and bathed in melancholy of the legendary pianist and composer Serguei Rachmaninov. This film is based on the legend that Rachmaninoff received a bouquet of lilacs from a ...

Cruelty (2007)

A teenage girl Vika and a successful but single middle-aged woman get closer in an attempt to take revenge on Zoya's former lover. They develop a taste for it. They steal and crush his car, burn down his house, and plan to destroy his family. ...

The Island (2006)

Somewhere in Northern Russia in a small Russian Orthodox monastery lives an unusual man whose bizarre conduct confuses his fellow monks, while others who visit the island believe that the man has the power to heal, exorcise demons and foretell the future. ...

Moscow Skyscraper (2005)

Through a first-person narrator, archival footage and photographs, and a contemporary camera, Pavel Lounguine uses the Moscow skyscraper where he grew up as a touchstone for looking back to Stalin and then examining today's Russia. This is Stalin's pyramid ...

Tycoon (2002)

During the Gorbachev years, Platon Makovski and his four buddies are university students who jump on the private capitalism movement. Fast-forward 20 years, Platon finds himself the richest man in Russia, having sacrificed his friends to get to the top. Bu ...

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 ...

Line of Life (1996)

Philippe meets the beautiful Oksana during a long layover in Moscow. Unfortunately, Oksana is the granddaughter of a murderous mafia don looking to trap a French speaking man to pull off a massive con. ...

Concerning Nice (1995)

Anthology of short films about the French city of Nice, by various directors. A homage to Jean Vigo and his "À propos de Nice" from 1930. ...

Luna Park (1992)

Andrei is the head of a gang of antisemitic skinheads clinging to the old communist ideals in post-Communist Moscow. When he learns that his long lost father actually is a Jewish bohemian living in Moscow, rather than an Afghanistan war hero, he traces him ...

Oriental Novel (1992)

The film consists of five short stories that reflect five stages (1947 — 1950 — 1957 — 1967 — 1982) the action programs of the heroine of the film, from the age of fifteen, rushed to a typical goal for that time — to smile from the front page of ...

Taxi Blues (1990)

Ivan is old Russia: thick, dour, hard-working, often brutish; he misses Communism. He drives a taxi and one night meets Alexi, a new Russian, a musician, an alcoholic, irresponsible. Alexi stiffs Ivan for the fare, so Ivan tracks him down and a love-hate r ...

The Widow Steamer (1989)

A story about women living in the same communal apartment, which they themselves nicknamed the "Widow Steamer". Everyone has their own story and their own grief. ...

Dangerous Prize (1988)

Students of the 5th "B" class were awarded a movie camera for the first place in collecting waste paper. Anton Dudkin was assigned to shoot a chronicle of the life of the class. As a result of all the funny stories that happened to the guys during the film ...

Road Companion (1987)

The self-taught inventor Kostylin, convinced of the expediency of his latest work, this time decided to seek recognition to the end. ...

The Christians (1987)

A woman refuses to take an oath before the christian cross. ...

The Invincible (1983)

Film about a Russian Master of Martial Arts, Andrei Khromov (Rostotsky). Based on a true story. A young man travels all over the Eastern republics of the Soviet Union. He is studying various systems of self-defense in order to develop his own system that w ...

Everything's the Wrong Way (1982)

A story about a guy and a girl who decided to get married.They want to have their own place and live without parents. They search for apartment to live together because they can't live without each other, they're seriously falling in love, but parents are ...

The End of the Emperor of the Taiga (1978)

The film plays one of a little-known pages of the biography of Arkady Gaidar, the young man when he was appointed commander of the detachment CHON (special-purpose parts)... ...

It's All About the Brother (1977)

Two completely different sons grow up in the same family. The youngest, Frol Kalitkin, is an exemplary seventh-grader, winner of Olympiads, the first student. And the eldest, Andryusha, is a loafer, a loafer and a dude. The "correct" Frol takes up the upbr ...

Typhon (1976)

Two friends are trying to train a dog named Typhoon to work in the criminal investigation department. To draw attention to their ward, the guys let him loose on the policeman, and they themselves run away in fright. Having plucked up the courage, they come ...

Butterflies (2016)

Alexey is shooting a movie about himself. He is in search of a boyfriend. Everything would be alright, if Alexey's mother could accept his sexuality. Alexey comes to visit her and admits that he likes boys, saying 'Don't you anticipate any grandchildren fr ...

Kusturica - Balkan's Bad Boy (2012)

A film director, an actor, a musician, an organizer of festivals, a husband, a father, a grand-father, a friend, a professor... This film is an unexpected meeting with one of the most fascinating European film directors: Emir Kusturica. This is a journey t ...