Sergey Figner

House Arrest (2021)

David, a university professor, takes to social media to criticize his city's administration. But instead of the mayor's dodgy dealings being investigated, David is himself accused of embezzlement and placed under house arrest. Despite the overbearing surve ...

Hotsunlight (2021)

Lugansk region, May 2014. The Novozhilov family, by chance, finds itself in the thick of events in Lugansk. Vlad Novozhilov is a former participant in the war in Afghanistan. He knows firsthand what war is. Having seen enough of the horrors of war in his t ...

Deep Rivers (2018)

The youngest son returns home to help his father and brothers meet the targets for a profitable order on cut wood. During his absence nothing has changed: the same back-breaking toil for the sake of a piece of bread, the same resistance from the neighbouri ...

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 ...

Crush (2009)

Five short love stories, which become a statement of the directors about love. A shoemaker, a reporter, a pavement hooker-in, a psychiatric patient and a young man released from prison are the main characters of the film, heroes in a time of no heroes. All ...

Buratino, Son of Pinocchio (2009)

Imagine a mix of Repo Man, Oliver! and Pinocchio and you're on the road to grasping the tone of this bizarre Estonian take on Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy's character Buratino, a wooden boy (or boyus woodenus, as the doctors in the film refer to him). Bura ...

Leningrad (2009)

When in 1941 Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, their troops quickly besieged Leningrad. Foreign journalists are evacuated but one of them, Kate Davies, is presumed dead and misses the plane. Alone in the city she is helped by Nina Tsvetnova a young an ...

Paper Soldier (2008)

In 1961, a Soviet medical officer is conflicted about his position overseeing the health of future cosmonauts. ...

4 (2005)

Two men and a woman happen to meet in a bar. We learn from their conversations both the intriguing and banal details of their lives. But is anyone really telling the truth? ...

Alesha Popovich and Tugarin the Dragon (2004)

Alesha Popovich has to catch Tugarin Zmey and bring back the stolen money with the help of a talking Horse (which talks all the time and has an opinion on everything), a wise granny, a donkey and a beauty Lyubava. ...

The Last Train (2004)

A fat middle-aged man in German officer's uniform gets off a train somewhere in Russia in winter. He is a doctor who has just been called up we learn eventually. This is the end of the line- the Germans are about to retreat. He goes to a hospital which is ...

The Cuckoo (2002)

September of 1944, a few days before Finland went out of the Second World War. A chained to a rock Finnish sniper-kamikadze Veikko managed to set himself free. Ivan, a captain of the Soviet Army, arrested by the Front Secret Police 'Smersh', has a narrow e ...

Russian Ark (2002)

A ghost and a French marquis wander through the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, encountering scenes from many different periods of its history. ...

The Iron Heel of Oligarchy (1998)

Nikolai Petrovich comes to St. Petersburg to organize a revolution against the oligarchy. ...

The Wheel of Love (1994)

A romantic comedy about a twenty three years old Kirill who suddenly decides to become a gigolo. ...

Cumparsita (1994)

Anya is brought up in an orphanage, she has been in the school of ballroom dancing. She falls in love with the head of school, who is much older than her. After a quarrel with him Anya throws the newly born child in the hospital and goes to the village whe ...

Men's Games (1992)

The group of stuntmen comes to the beach to shoot an adventure film. Guys are training all day long, polishing their skills. One of the stuntmen witnessed two men pursuing the girl. He saves her from bullies, and the fugitive finds protection and patronage ...

Figner (2021)

Figner: The End of a Silent Century (2006)

Through her very real subject Edgar Figner, director Nathalie Alonso Casale offers us an intimate sense of the 21st-century Russian zeitgeist. A true alchemist, Mr. Figner has spent his life in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) as a sound-effects artist at Lenfil ...