Zhan Daniel

Era (2023)

Here, among the scorched by hot steppe and salty sea winds, on the fragments of a lost life of a forgotten coastal village, mother Era and son Andrey settle in a small house. And also a love that resists the indifference of the rest of the world, and in th ...

The Scoundrel (2017)

Julia is beautiful, mysterious and... hopelessly lonely. She lives with her mother in a house where the cult of her late military father, a very harsh man and – apparently – a rare idiot, reigns supreme. None of the men Julia has met meets such a high ...

Stepanych Mexican Voyage (2013)

Stepanych is depressed; he's lost the meaning of life. But suddenly, fate itself shows him a way out. ...

Mum's Better! (2010)

Young unlucky screenwriter Yasha starts a relationship with a beautiful young model. But having flown to the island of Crete to meet her parents, he suddenly falls in love with her mother, who is married to a not too faithful husband. ...

Melody for a Street Organ (2009)

Two young orphan siblings travel to Moscow in search of their missing father. Scared of being separated and sent to orphanages, they hope to reunite with the last link of their shattered family. ...

The Best Movie 2 (2009)

Russian comedy film. Continuation of 2008 The Best Movie film, spoofing such famous Russian films as Zhara, The Irony of Fate 2 and TV-programs: Malakhov+, King of Ring and Taxi. ...

And I Love Married (2008)

Oleg is forty. Larissa is over thirty. Twenty years he lived with his wife Tatiana, who knows from childhood (studied in the same class), he has a twelve-year-old daughter nick. Established way of life. Good job. The emptiness in my soul — from the dashe ...

Телохранительница (2008)

Rud and Sam (2007)

Retirees Rud and Sem come into possession of a suitcase full of mob money... a comic adventure ensues. ...

Two in One (2007)

This celebrated director's "exquisite cruelty" appears front and center when the death of a stage actor turns a theatrical drama into a real one. Two in One's two parts, "Stagehands" and "Woman of a Lifetime," celebrate the psychological richness that lurk ...

The Bride (2006)

While trying fortune-telling young student Olga suddenly saw the face of her future husband and learned his name - Sasha. ...

The Tuner (2005)

A young piano tuner befriends two rich old-ladies, and plots, with the help of his girlfriend, to betray their trust and steal from them. ...

You I Love (2004)

Vera and Tim are successful young professionals. Everything changes one night when Tim hits a young Kalmyk immigrant to Moscow, Uloomji, with his car. The two men begin a affair while Vera struggles to comprehend their bond and her boyfriend's erratic beha ...

Don't Even Think (2003)

A few young men are planning a criminal operation based on the action movies they saw. ...

Chekhovian Motifs (2002)

The film is based on A. P. Chekhov's play "Tatiana Repina" and short story "Difficult People". At his wedding, the groom is horrified to see among the church crowd his former mistress who had recently committed suicide. ...

Second Class Citizens (2001)

The movie examines the lives of the not-so-fortunate dregs of society through absurdist comedy. The unfortunates of the title are mentally challenged people, some of whom could be termed insane - or merely inane. ...

DMB-2 (2000)

Love Is Evil (1999)

Kostya, a young man who is deeply in love with Veronika is going to introduce her to his parents. But not everything is going according to the plan... ...

An Essay for Victory Day (1999)

The heroic crew of the fighter jet reunites a quarter of a century later. Fate has separated these comrades-in-arms, significantly altering their characters and worldviews. One became a radical communist, another became the chairman of the Veterans Fund, a ...

Three Stories (1997)

A man goes to see his former schoolmate working at a boiler house and persuades him to burn in the furnace the corpse of his communal flat neighbor whom he has just murdered after a quarrel. An orphaned girl gets a job in the archives of the maternity home ...