Valeriy Kukhareshin

Volchok (2025)

Thirteen-year-old nobleman and orphan Vanya Ogarev flees from Moscow to Nizhny Novgorod, fleeing assassins sent by his own uncle, who decided to take possession of the boy's inheritance. To protect himself, Vanya hires a random fist fighter named Volchok. ...

The Devil's Rock (2025)

Five friends go on a bike ride to Tsaritsyno and are unexpectedly transported to an alternate universe. Together, they must unravel the secrets of the enchanted place and save the world from a plot by dark sorcerers. ...

The Master and Margarita (2024)

A writer in 1930s Moscow has his work banned and is expelled from the official union, leaving him without income. He then writes a novel about a mysterious dark visitor and gradually starts confusing his real life with the story. ...

Liver, or Story of a Startup (2021)

1990s. Three friends Vova, Mamed and Lyokha go to school and dream, like everyone else in Russia at this time, to open their own business. But first you need money. Everything seemed to be going well, but they were not allowed to the final exams. His Majes ...

Something for Nothing (2021)

Max Flamberk, an uncompromising police detective, is conducting an unofficial investigation into the case of missing people. He obsessively believes that all the missing are mysteriously connected between, but none of his colleagues share his views. When t ...

Silver Skates (2020)

1899, the Christmas-time St.Petersburg. Ice-covered rivers and canals of the capital seethe with festive activities. On the eve of the new century those who should not be destined to meet, come together. They are people from different worlds: Matvey, the s ...

Fantastic Return to Oz (2019)

A year to the day after Dorothy and the people of the Emerald City defeated Urfin Jus, the villain is trying to exact his revenge. To command the army of Carraci, however, Urfin needs not only the magic book, but also Dorothy's silver slippers. The slipper ...

Elephant (2019)

In the center of the plot children's writer Valentin Shubin, accustomed to live in seclusion. His books about the elephant Mishka, written in his youth, enjoyed great success both at home and abroad. A series of random events causes a new surge of interest ...

Quiet Comes the Dawn (2019)

Female protagonist's brother dies under mysterious circumstances. Extremely vivid nightmares begin to haunt her and she decides to turn to the Institute of somnology for help. Along with other patients, they are induced into a «collective lucid dream». B ...

Fantastic Journey to Oz (2017)

The cunning and wicked Urfin wants to become ruler of Magic Land. With an army of wooden soldiers, he captures the Emerald City and renames it ti Urfinville. He is all but ready to celebrate victory, when his plans are ruined by an ordinary girl named Doro ...

The Day Before (2016)

Since the morning, the entire population of the planet has been concerned about one news: a red comet is approaching the Earth. A year ago, scientists only assumed this collision, a month ago they tried to establish the exact date - and finally, it was jus ...

The Iron Ivan (2014)

He was called the Champion of Champions. The strength and strong-willed character Poddubniy composed legends. And 50 great fighter effortlessly overcame young athletes, and questions of honor and justice did not know compromises. ...

Reading Book of Blockade (2009)

Famous actors and ordinary people from all walks of life read stories from a book describing the 900-day siege of Leningrad during World War II. ...

Kind People (2009)

The action takes place in a small Ural village beginning the War. The protagonist returns to his native place several years after the war and finds out that he is considered missed in action. The story about people whose quiet life was ruined by the War. T ...

В сторону от войны (2009)

Bury Me Behind the Baseboard (2009)

A small child is trapped in a tug-of-war battle between his frivolous, but loving mother and an emotionally abusive neurotic grandmother, who wants to "shelter" her beloved grandson at all cost. ...

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 ...

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 ...

White Lilacs (2007)

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 ...

Conspiracy (2007)

The Golden Age (2003)

Historical period melodrama. ...

Gangster's Petersburg: The Fall of Antibiotic (2001)

The main criminal authority - Antibiotic, seemingly a virtuoso and elusive genius of the underworld, invulnerable to a bullet, knife and authorities, sooner or later retribution must overtake. Journalist Seregin, acting at his own peril and risk, breaks th ...

The Romanovs: A Crowned Family (2000)

The story of the last year and a half of Tsar Nicholas II and his family from the February Revolution of 1917 to their execution in July 1918. ...

Farewell Pavel (1999)

Farewell Pavel takes place in two cities. In Rotterdam, we follow Russian reporter Alexei Petrov. He stays in a shabby hotel while investigating Russian ships that have been chained up and writes an article about trafficking in women. His contact with a Ru ...

Boldino Autumn (1999)

Sisin, a forty-year-old writer, gets on the train and goes out of town. In the car, he is surrounded by strange passengers, some of whom resemble famous Russian writers: Chekhov, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Kuprin... Surreal visions, hidden desires, fears, and an ...

I Want To Go To Prison (1998)

After Semyon helps a man commit a crime, he learns the gravity of his actions and decides to go to jail. But he chooses to get imprisoned in the Netherlands to get some comfort. ...

Anna Karenina (1997)

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg's high society, a relationship like this could de ...

Operation 'Happy New Year'! (1996)

A comedy about a New Year Eve celebration in one very funny hospital. ...

Goblin Sanctuary (1993)

The Door into Summer (1992)

He was betrayed by a friend and the woman he loved. His brilliant inventions were stolen through deceit. Thirty years later, he awoke from hypersleep. Both hatred and love were left in the distant past. But sometimes, those who never give up manage to find ...

Socrates (1991)

The long-term war with Sparta ends. The power and prosperity of Athens has sunk into the past; in an atmosphere of general despair and irritation, democracy, tyranny, and oligarchy replace each other. Against this background, the last, tragic period of Soc ...

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 ...