Vladislav Opelyants

The Disappearance of Josef Mengele (2025)

In the aftermath of the Second World War, Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor at Auschwitz, escapes to South America to rebuild his life in hiding. Through the eyes of his son who finds him again, Mengele is confronted with a past he can no longer ignore. From ...

The Erl-King (2024)

Sava, her mother and little brother live in a skyscraper in Belgrade. That normal life is interrupted by the bombing of Serbia. A shelter becomes his new home and Milica, the daughter of the priest he is in love with, leaves the country. ...

Tchaikovsky's Wife (2022)

Antonina Milyukova is a beautiful and bright young woman, born in the aristocracy of 19th century Russia. She could have anything she'd want, and yet her only obsession is to marry Pyotr Tchaikovsky, with whom she falls in love from the very moment she hea ...

Petrov's Flu (2021)

A day in the life of a comic book artist and his family in Russia. While suffering from the flu, Petrov is carried by his friend Igor on a long walk, drifting in and out of fantasy and reality. ...

Persian Lessons (2020)

Occupied France, 1942. Gilles is arrested by SS soldiers alongside other Jews and sent to a camp in Germany. He narrowly avoids sudden execution by swearing to the guards that he is not Jewish, but Persian. This lie temporarily saves him, but Gilles gets a ...

Invasion (2020)

Two years after the fall of the alien ship, the life of a young woman from Moscow has been changed forever. Her growing powers are now at the focus of both human and celestial investigation: an alien force takes an interest in her, and will stop short of n ...

After Leto (2018)

The film tells about the time in which the characters of the movie "Leto" lived. Performer of the role of "Skeptic" Alexandr Kuznetsov interviews Natalya Naumenko, Artemy Troitsky, Igor Petrovsky, Seva Novgorodtsev and Andrey Tropillo about Russian rock, t ...

Leto (2018)

Leningrad, one summer in the early eighties. Smuggling LPs by Lou Reed and David Bowie, the underground rock scene is boiling ahead of the Perestroika. Mike and his beautiful wife Natasha meet with young Viktor Tsoi. Together with friends, they will change ...

No (2018)

The tragic and ironic reasoning about the fear of growing-up is shown through the prism of the personal relations of two protagonists. In a restaurant that is appropriate for the occasion a young man proposes to the girl he loves — and is unexpectedly tu ...

Selfie (2018)

He was his absolute copy – his gestures, body language and jokes were so real, no one suspected the change. Bogdanov looked at the screen as if it was mirror. the double has taken over his tV-show, held meetings with his fans, lived with his women and h ...

Mot Ne (2017)

Based on a real case in Siberia, a woman lost in the taiga is forced to wander with several families engaged in hunting. ...

Hostages (2017)

Soviet Georgia, 1983. Preparations for Nika and Ana's wedding are in full swing and it's a big day for both of their elite families. For the newlyweds and their friends, however, the celebrations are in fact part of a cover-up, as they plot an audacious es ...

Molodogvardeytsev 32 (2016)

The story of three guys from Chelyabinsk who decided to Rob a local grocery store. During the attack, everything goes awry: an unknown creature appears in the back room of a merchant's shop... ...

Phonograph (2016)

Yuli Ivanovich Blok is a music lover and enthusiast of early sound recording, who in 1889 was the first to bring Edison's phonograph to Russia, came up with the idea to record the great pianist Anton Rubinstein's playing on a phonograph. But the pianist fl ...

The Student (2016)

A high school student becomes convinced that the world is lost to evil and begins to challenge the morals and beliefs of the adults surrounding him. ...

No Borders (2015)

Few not connected novels about the love. Few couples falling in love in different places of post USSR: Moscow, Georgia, Armenia. ...

Warrior (2015)

The film tells the dramatic story of two brothers, professional MMA athletes. This is a picture about duty and life values shown through the prism of the lives of brothers and their father – strong and proud people, a film about family, about the insults ...

Blue Bird (2015)

Снег (2014)

Sunstroke (2014)

In a Crimean filtration camp, after the evacuation of the White Army, an unnamed captain is haunted by memories of a brief romance as he tries to understand how the Russian Empire fell apart and who is to blame. ...

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. ...

Burnt by the Sun 2: Citadel (2011)

The final part of Mikhalkov's trilogy about Divisional Commander Kotov finds him returning home during World War II having been betrayed, narrowly escaped execution for treason and nearly reduced to dust in a prison camp. Only to discover that everything h ...

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 ...

Pussycat (2009)

Short stories that seem to be absolutely different, none of the main characters is connected with the other one, each following story is totally unlike the previous one. Only in the end of the film the viewer gets the clear explanation of the neighborhood ...

12 (2007)

A loose remake of "12 Angry Men", "12" is set in contemporary Moscow where 12 very different men must unanimously decide the fate of a young Chechen accused of murdering his step-father, a Russian army officer. Consigned to a makeshift jury room in a schoo ...

The State Counsellor (2005)

Third film based on Boris Akunin's "Priklucheniya Erasta Petrovicha Fandorina" series of novels. On a train from St. Petersburg to Moscow general Khrapov was killed and no one else but Erast Petrovich is under suspicion because the killer pretended to be F ...

The Goddess: How I Fell in Love (2004)

Young police detective Faina tries to experiment with herself in order to meet her dead love. ...

The Red One: Triumph (2000)

Andrei, nicknamed Red, is a young drug dealer, trawling hotel corridors, selling little bags of hits to hookers and businessmen alike. Shrewd and tough, he has seen more than his fair share of life. But he has a problem - a rival gang, the Abreks, have mov ...

Marcephalus (1998)

Dashing 90s. Jeff, a DJ at a small radio station, receives news of his father's sudden illness and accidentally falls into a series of unexpected events. He meets a mysterious nurse and witnesses the death of a reputable drug dealer. ...

Middle Age Crisis (1997)

Sergey comes to Moscow and starts to work as EMT. But his life in the capital isn't simple... ...

The Goddess: How I Fell in Love. Film about the film (2004)

Documentary about the making of Renata Litvinova's 2004 film: "The Goddess: How I Fell in Love. ...

Brother 2 (2000)

Arriving in Moscow, Chechen War veteran Danila meets Konstantin, an old friend who tells him that his twin brother has been forced into signing a crooked contract with a US ice hockey team. Soon after this meeting, Danila discovers Konstantin dead and he s ...