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Hitler Kaput! (Gitler Kaput) Director: Marius Veisberg |
Hitler Kaput! is a spy comedy directed by Marius Veisberg and produced by Sergei Livnev. Created in a style similar to Mel Brooks and the Zucker Brothers, the film centers around Russian super spy, Shura Osechkin, nicknamed Shurenberg, in a fascist den. The film follows Shura and his desperate attempts to rescue a beautiful radiowoman who has been arrested by Gestapo. The film’s soundtrack features many stars of Russian rock, including rock band Leningrad and Garik Sukachov.
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Indigo (Indigo) Director: Roman Prygunov |
Indigo is an adventure thriller about ordinary, urban teenagers. But they also are Indigo - people of the future. They feel danger, understand language of animals, read thoughts, and remember their previous reincarnations. But suddenly these children begin to vanish mysteriously, one by one. Their ominous enemies have their own plans for the future. Indigo should fight for their freedom. Director Roman Prygunov (“Stereoblood”, the serial “The Motherland Waits 2”) has invited both young debutants and stars Michael Efremov, Maria Shukshina, and Gosha Kutsenko into his film.
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Mukha (Mukha) Director: Vladimir Kott |
Mukha, a melodrama, is director Vladimir Kotta’s debut film that received the main prize at the International Film Festival in Shanghai. Long-distance truck driver Fyodor Mukhin (played by Aleksey Kravchenko) is an inveterate bachelor. Women love him, but he even doesn’t remember most of those with whom his fate brought him together. One of these women is Masha, a teacher from a small Ural town, who one day sends him a telegram with the request to arrive promptly. Fatally sick, Masha dies before he arrives. Fyodor gets keys from the house and meets Mukha’s daughter, a difficult, wolf-cub-like teenager with a lot of problems. She does not accept strangers and has little pity for her own folks.
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Terra Nova (Novaya Zemlya) Director: Alexander Melnik |
Terra Nova is an anti-utopia film directed by the debutant Alexander Melnik. In this Suspense thriller, the viewer is sent into the future to a desert island in the North of Russia. It is on this deserted island that serial killers from different countries have been banished and are doomed to face the fierce struggle for survival. One of the most expensive Russian films with a budget of twelve million dollars, Terra Nova was shot in locations around the world such as Russia, Malta, and Spitsbergen.
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The Captive (Plennyi) Director: Aleksey Uchitel |
At the 43-rd International Film Festival in Karlovy Vary, Aleksey Uchitel ("The Diary of His Wife", "Walk", "Space as Premonition") received the Award for Best Director for his film The Captive.
Scripted after Vladimir Makanin's story "The Caucasian Captive" The Captive takes place during wartime in the Chechen Republic. Federal troops get stuck in a mined gorge and two Russian soldiers take a young Chechen insurgent captive and force him to show them a safe passage.
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Plus One ( Plus One) Director: Oksana Bychkova |
Plus One is a romantic comedy that follows Masha, a divorced literary translator. Masha is not inclined to flirtation and prefers modern American novels to worldly romances. However, she comes upon an odd job, interpreter for a foreigner puppeteer who comes to Moscow to carry out seminars for a new puppet show. The encounter with the eccentric and unpredictable Tom (British actor Jethro Skinner) overturns Masha's life and finally comes to understand what true love means.
The second film of Oksana Bychkova ("Peter FM"), Jethro Skinner received the award for Best Actor at the National Film Festival "Kinotavr".
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Hoax (Rozygrysh) Director: Andrey Kudinenko |
In Hoax Pavel Lungin's producing studio offers a remake of Vladimir Menshov’s youth film shot in 1976. Once again the film takes place at an ordinary Moscow school with morals and manners. A new pupil from the provinces comes to a graduation class and breaks all dispositions and challenges the recognized leader, arrogant guy from a rich family. To restore the leading position he resorts to desperate measures and subjects the young and inexperienced English teacher to a cruel hoax. Scandal flares up and the head of studies wishes to expel the insolent fellow from the school. Popular musician Noize MC plays the leading role.
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Heavy Sand (Tyazhelyi Pesok) Director: Anton Barshchevsky |
Heavy Sand is a family saga based on Anatoly Rybakov’s well-known bestselling novel published in 39 countries. In the center of young director Anton Barshchevsky’s film ("The Moscow Saga") is the history of a half-German,half-Jewish , Yakov, and a Jewish woman, Rachel, and their love that has withstood inconceivable tests during the Holocaust. Yakov comes from Switzerland to a small shtettle in the Ukraine, where he has been caught by Nazi occupation. The epic narration covers the entire 20th century and appeals to the 21st century. Irina Lachina, Dmitry Kharatyan, Olga Budina, Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Larissa Udovichenko, Emmanuil Vitorgan, Yuri Solomin star in the film.
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Four Ages of Love (Chetyre Vozrasta Ljubvi) Director: Sergey Mokritsky |
Four Ages of Love is a melodrama split into four short stories. The directorial debut of cameraman Sergey Mokritsky, Four Ages of Love is about people of young, mature, and venerable ages as their feelings are tested by the difficulty of life’s realities. In one of the short stories very young heroes endure a love affair, but nearby there are fights. In another short story the audience feels the strength of parental feelings as a mother and father go to a monastery in search of their son who is missing in the Chechen War. Liya Akhedzhakova, Igor Yasulovich, Yulia Rutberg, Aleksey Serebryakov star in the film.
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Yuri’s Day (Yurjev Den’) Director: Kirill Serebrennikov |
Yuri’s Day is a mystical drama directed by Kirill Serebrennikov ("Playing the Victim") produced after the script by Yuri Arabov, long term coauthor of Alexander Sokurov. In the film a well-known opera singer comes with his student son to the native, ancient town Yurjev-Polsky to say goodbye before their departure to Germany for a permanent residence. But during an excursion at the monastery her son mysteriously disappears. And the singer, a metropolitan creature, is compelled to stay for a long time in the small town to become closely acquainted with its inhabitants and customs and hoping that her son will be found. Ksenia Rappoport as opera diva received the Award for the Best Actress at the National Film Festival "Kinotavr" in Sochi.
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Wild Field (Dikoye Pole) Director: Mikhail Kalatozishvili |
An ethnographic action from director Michael Kalatozishvili. A young doctor comes to work in the Kazakhstan steppe. He moves to a house in a remote settlement located two hundred kilometers from Alma-Ata, a former capital of Kazakhstan. Local residents start to come to the new doctor not only for medical aid, but also to tell him about their problems, pleasures, and misfortunes. The protagonist waits for his bride who should be arriving from the big city. Soon the girl comes, but as it turns out only for a short time. The leading role is played by young actor, Oleg Dolin, who also acted in the role of the architect in the film Peter FM.