Alexey Uchitel

Alexey Uchitel

Aleksei Yefimovich Uchitel (Russian: Алексей Ефимович Учитель; born 31 August 1951; Leningrad) is a Russian film director, screenwriter and producer. In 2002, he received the title People's Artist of Russia. Uchitel was born on 31 August 1951 in Leningrad to the family of documentary filmmaker Yefim Uchitel. In 1975, he graduated from VGIK, worked at the Leningrad studio of documentary films. In 1990, he founded his film studio "Rock". Uchitel's directorial debut was the film Gisele's Mania. In 2000, he received the Nika Award, the Kinotavr Grand Prix and the Crystal Globe nomination for His Wife's Diary. The film was about the last love affair of Ivan Bunin. His 2003 film The Stroll was entered into the 25th Moscow International Film Festival. His 2005 film Dreaming of Space won the Golden George at the 27th Moscow International Film Festival. In 2006, he was a member of the jury at the 28th Moscow International Film Festival. His 2010 film The Edge was selected as the Russian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards but it did not make the final shortlist. His film Break Loose was selected to be screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. The romantic drama Matilda directed by Uchitel about the relationship between ballerina Matilda Kshesinskaya and Nicholas II was released on 23 October 2017. The picture became controversial after State Duma deputy Natalia Poklonskaya led a campaign to ban the film on religious grounds.

  • Title: Alexey Uchitel
  • Popularity: 0.721
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1951-08-31
  • Place of Birth: Leningrad, USSR (St. Petersburg, Russia)
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  • Also Known As: Алексей Учитель, Aleksey Uchitel, Aleksei Uchitel, Alexei Uchitel, Alexej Utschitelj
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Alexey Uchitel Movies

  • 2021
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    Zemun

    Zemun

    6 2021 HD

    Having learned from his younger brother Pashka about the mysterious death of his father, Yegor returns to his native village after many years of...

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  • 1990
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    Mitki in Europe, Yolly-pally

    Mitki in Europe, Yolly-pally

    1 1990 HD

    Film about Mitki - a creative group of St. Petersburg artists, writers and musicians who joined them, - went on a trip to Europe.

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  • 1997
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    The Elite

    The Elite

    1 1997 HD

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  • 1997
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    The Elite

    The Elite

    1 1997 HD

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  • 2023
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    Mittelmarsch

    Mittelmarsch

    8 2023 HD

    Petersburg was swept by a wave of an unusual cultural movement: an unknown enthusiast organizes art events, trying to draw attention to forgotten...

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  • 2014
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    Breaking Loose

    Breaking Loose

    4.4 2014 HD

    Four best friends. They've been to war, they've seen life, but they are still passionate, young and willing to serve their country. They found their...

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  • 2023
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    Lenechka

    Lenechka

    1 2023 HD

    Leonid Desyatnikov is the most played Russian composer of today. Unparalleled, his music is performed all over the world from the Bolshoi Theatre and...

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  • 2023
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    Shchedrin Suite

    Shchedrin Suite

    1 2023 HD

    “Shchedrin Suite” is a candid conversation with the renowned classic. On how he fell in love and was overwhelmed by the beauty of bronze...

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  • 1970
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    The Place Where You Sleep

    The Place Where You Sleep

    1 1970 HD

    Having received yet another chemotherapy treatment, Kirill, for the first time in his life, was unable to join the tradition once started by his...

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  • 2018
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    Call Myshkin

    Call Myshkin

    6.5 2018 HD

    All his life Myshkin was dreaming about becoming an actor. And now eight years old Dasha is trying to help him.

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  • 2023
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    Niche

    Niche

    1 2023 HD

    Inspired by the words of a random beauty, Slava quits his job as a freight forwarder and his wife Masha, who does not understand him, for the sake of...

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  • 2020
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    #IAmHere

    #IAmHere

    5 2020 HD

    Natasha, 36, awaits a court verdict that is to decide whether for the next eight years she is to stay under police observation. Persons like her are...

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  • 2017
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    Mathilde

    Mathilde

    5.9 2017 HD

    The love story of the famous ballet dancer Mathilde Kschessinska and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.

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  • 2013
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    Friends from France

    Friends from France

    5.8 2013 HD

    1979: Cousins Carole and Jérôme go on an organized trip to Odessa, behind the Iron Curtain. During the day, posing as tourists...

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  • 2013
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    Orlovs

    Orlovs

    1 2013 HD

    Mother and daughter, forced migrants from Chechnya who survived the war. Both lost their husbands. Now they live in a small town with the belief that...

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  • 2015
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    Tamerlan's Love

    Tamerlan's Love

    1 2015 HD

    Tamerlane, in order to gain independence and be able to marry his beloved Amina, leaves Grozny for the mountains to work as a shepherd.

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  • 2000
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    His Wife's Diary

    His Wife's Diary

    5.4 2000 HD

    A tragic story of love and loneliness - this is the unknown life of the great Russian writer Ivan Bunin. The confused love story that involved Bunin,...

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  • 2005
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    Dreaming of Space

    Dreaming of Space

    5.4 2005 HD

    A story of a simple, naive Russian man Konek and the people around him: his love and her sister and a mysterious man. The film is set in 1957, time...

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  • 2013
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    The Major

    The Major

    6.8 2013 HD

    On a cold winter’s day Sergey Sobolev, a major at the local police office, is driving to the hospital where his wife is about to give birth to...

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  • 2010
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    The Edge

    The Edge

    5.8 2010 HD

    The action takes place shortly after the end of the Second World War in the Siberian hinterland, among Russians and Germans with damaged personal...

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  • 2008
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    Captive

    Captive

    2.9 2008 HD

    The story of a young Chechen and his Russian captor during a war between Russia and Chechnya.

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  • 1995
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    Gisele's Mania

    Gisele's Mania

    3 1995 HD

    A detective-dramatic chronicle of love adventures of the famous Russian ballerina Olga Spesivtseva, nicknamed by contemporaries Red Giselle. It was...

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  • 2010
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    The Edge

    The Edge

    5.8 2010 HD

    The action takes place shortly after the end of the Second World War in the Siberian hinterland, among Russians and Germans with damaged personal...

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  • 2013
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    Bite the Dust

    Bite the Dust

    6 2013 HD

    A village so small all the residents not only knows each other, but also can easily recognize the neighbor's cow face a frightful news. It was...

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  • 2007
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    Enemies

    Enemies

    5.4 2007 HD

    Belorussia, summer 1942. The war has moved on, far off to the east. The life of a small town where the German authorities of the region have set...

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  • 1988
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    Rock

    Rock

    5.8 1988 HD

    Documentary — featuring both interviews and live footage — about underground rock music in Russia, during the last years of the...

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  • 2003
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    The Stroll

    The Stroll

    6.3 2003 HD

    Today’s twenty-something Russians are the first generation in the country’s post-communist history to have grown up free. Their twenties...

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  • 2009
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    Last Hero: Twenty Years Later

    Last Hero: Twenty Years Later

    1 2009 HD

    "The Last Hero: Twenty Years Later" is a documentary about the life of legendary musician Viktor Tsoi.

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  • 1970
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    Kumparsita

    Kumparsita

    1 1970 HD

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  • 2008
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    The Game

    The Game

    1.5 2008 HD

    The film takes place at the training base of the Russian national team. The eyes of the whole country are riveted to this place, our players train...

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  • 2016
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    Holy God

    Holy God

    1 2016 HD

    Self-portrait. In 1998 our family came under armed attack. We were able to escape and we fled Grozny. We have been silent about it since.

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  • 2023
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    Twisting in the Wind

    Twisting in the Wind

    1 2023 HD

    Yura is on the trail of his young wife’s lover. But how does a simple hunter catch someone who leaves no trace on the ground?

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  • 1992
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    Last Hero

    Last Hero

    7.5 1992 HD

    The portrait of the creator of the Kino group, consisting of the thoughts and memories of people who loved him, appears before the audience as a...

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  • 1992
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    Last Hero

    Last Hero

    7.5 1992 HD

    The portrait of the creator of the Kino group, consisting of the thoughts and memories of people who loved him, appears before the audience as a...

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  • 2014
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    The Fool

    The Fool

    7.868 2014 HD

    The Fool is a movie about a simple plumber. An honest man, he is up against an entire system of corrupted bureaucrats. At stake are the lives of 800...

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  • 2017
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    Mathilde

    Mathilde

    5.9 2017 HD

    The love story of the famous ballet dancer Mathilde Kschessinska and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.

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  • 2010
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    To Live

    To Live

    6.5 2010 HD

    Early autumn, godforsaken Russian countryside. A local hunter Michail witnesses a skirmish in the middle of the forest - three men want to kill the...

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  • 1995
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    Gisele's Mania

    Gisele's Mania

    3 1995 HD

    A detective-dramatic chronicle of love adventures of the famous Russian ballerina Olga Spesivtseva, nicknamed by contemporaries Red Giselle. It was...

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  • 2000
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    His Wife's Diary

    His Wife's Diary

    5.4 2000 HD

    A tragic story of love and loneliness - this is the unknown life of the great Russian writer Ivan Bunin. The confused love story that involved Bunin,...

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  • 2012
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    I'll Be Around

    I'll Be Around

    5.4 2012 HD

    A 30-something single mother must find adoptive parents for her son when she founds out she has an incurable illness in this family drama.

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  • 2013
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    The Sea

    The Sea

    4 2013 HD

    Weary of Moscow, a young photographer sets out for the Kola Peninsula in order to document the life of the local fishing communities whose...

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  • 2013
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    7 Main Wishes

    7 Main Wishes

    3.4 2013 HD

    On a New year Eve Masha gets a bird which is ready to fulfill her 7 wishes...

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  • 2008
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    Captive

    Captive

    2.9 2008 HD

    The story of a young Chechen and his Russian captor during a war between Russia and Chechnya.

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  • 2010
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    Elephant

    Elephant

    1 2010 HD

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  • 2005
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    Dreaming of Space

    Dreaming of Space

    5.4 2005 HD

    A story of a simple, naive Russian man Konek and the people around him: his love and her sister and a mysterious man. The film is set in 1957, time...

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  • 1995
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    Gisele's Mania

    Gisele's Mania

    3 1995 HD

    A detective-dramatic chronicle of love adventures of the famous Russian ballerina Olga Spesivtseva, nicknamed by contemporaries Red Giselle. It was...

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  • 2003
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    The Stroll

    The Stroll

    6.3 2003 HD

    Today’s twenty-something Russians are the first generation in the country’s post-communist history to have grown up free. Their twenties...

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  • 2012
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    The Dry Valley

    The Dry Valley

    5.4 2012 HD

    This story unites the destinies of the landowners and their servants, and is considered to be one of the most complete portraits of the Russian life...

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  • 2006
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    The Connection

    The Connection

    3.4 2006 HD

    Ilya lives in Moscow; Nina lives in St. Petersburg. Ilya has a beautiful wife and a daughter; Nina's husband is an artist, and they have a young son....

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  • 2014
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    Breaking Loose

    Breaking Loose

    4.4 2014 HD

    Four best friends. They've been to war, they've seen life, but they are still passionate, young and willing to serve their country. They found their...

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  • 1980
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    How Many People at the Disco

    How Many People at the Disco

    1 1980 HD

    About the best discos in the USSR - in Moscow, Riga, Novosibirsk, Dubna, etc., with comments by the Deputy Minister of Culture of the USSR Golubtsova...

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  • 1980
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    How Many People at the Disco

    How Many People at the Disco

    1 1980 HD

    About the best discos in the USSR - in Moscow, Riga, Novosibirsk, Dubna, etc., with comments by the Deputy Minister of Culture of the USSR Golubtsova...

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  • 1990
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    Obvodny Canal

    Obvodny Canal

    1 1990 HD

    On the banks of the Obvodny Canal in St. Petersburg there are three crazy houses, three Houses of Culture, a spiritual academy, a pub ... This movie...

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  • 1990
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    Obvodny Canal

    Obvodny Canal

    1 1990 HD

    On the banks of the Obvodny Canal in St. Petersburg there are three crazy houses, three Houses of Culture, a spiritual academy, a pub ... This movie...

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  • 1990
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    Mitki in Europe, Yolly-pally

    Mitki in Europe, Yolly-pally

    1 1990 HD

    Film about Mitki - a creative group of St. Petersburg artists, writers and musicians who joined them, - went on a trip to Europe.

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  • 1993
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    Batterflyay

    Batterflyay

    1 1993 HD

    Roman Viktyuk either hate or adore. But the eccentricity, the dissimilarity to everything of his work is recognized by everyone. The film by Alexei...

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  • 1993
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    Batterflyay

    Batterflyay

    1 1993 HD

    Roman Viktyuk either hate or adore. But the eccentricity, the dissimilarity to everything of his work is recognized by everyone. The film by Alexei...

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  • 2011
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    Business in Russian

    Business in Russian

    1 2011 HD

    On the fate of small businesses in Russia. Five completely different stories about entrepreneurs, their successes and failures, the joys and...

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  • 2012
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    No problems

    No problems

    1 2012 HD

    Portrait of a generation of modern young people. Each of them is asked only one question: "What do you care about most of all? What do you worry...

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  • 2024
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    Peculiarities of the National Hospital

    Peculiarities of the National Hospital

    1 2024 HD

    A young German, Werner Müller, turns out to be a volunteer in the neurological department of an ordinary St. Petersburg hospital. A foreigner,...

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  • 2018
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    I Did Not Forget You

    I Did Not Forget You

    1 2018 HD

    The story of the short but brilliant life of Ergasha Khamraeva, actor and playwright of the Soviet cinema who laid the foundations of the new art in...

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  • 2019
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    The Battle

    The Battle

    6.2 2019 HD

    The dreams of passionate street dancer Anton are crushed when an accidental injury makes him deaf. But it is exactly at this difficult time that he...

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  • 2020
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    Streltsov

    Streltsov

    6.1 2020 HD

    By the age of twenty, Eduard Streltsov has everything one can dream of: talent, fame and love. He is the rising star of Soviet football. The whole...

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  • 2022
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    Once In The Desert

    Once In The Desert

    7.3 2022 HD

    The films follows a Syrian War Explosive Ordnance Disposal team who are targeted by ISIS militants while they prepare the recently liberated historic...

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  • 2012
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    The Road To

    The Road To

    6 2012 HD

    Big cities are full of lonely people.

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  • 2014
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    Pashki

    Pashki

    1 2014 HD

    This film is about love between a father and his daughter, about the Russian soul and about the corners of the earth forgotten by civilization, where...

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  • 2020
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    The Whaler Boy

    The Whaler Boy

    6.2 2020 HD

    Everything changes in the life of a young 15-year-old Chukchi hunter Lyoshka with the advent of the Internet in the village. He falls in love –...

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  • 1970
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    Дети мои

    Дети мои

    1 1970 HD

    Production project of Alexey Uchitel

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  • 2020
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    Tsoi

    Tsoi

    4.4 2020 HD

    15 August 1990. Viktor Tsoi, the Soviet Union’s most famous rock star, leader of the band Kino, a symbol of freedom and change, dies in an...

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  • 2020
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    Tsoi

    Tsoi

    4.4 2020 HD

    15 August 1990. Viktor Tsoi, the Soviet Union’s most famous rock star, leader of the band Kino, a symbol of freedom and change, dies in an...

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  • 1978
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    Leningrad

    Leningrad

    1 1978 HD

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  • 2019
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    Skype

    Skype

    1 2019 HD

    The film is about trying to find yourself through a relationship with relatives who are very far away.

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  • 2020
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    Tsoi

    Tsoi

    4.4 2020 HD

    15 August 1990. Viktor Tsoi, the Soviet Union’s most famous rock star, leader of the band Kino, a symbol of freedom and change, dies in an...

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  • 2020
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    Sententia

    Sententia

    1 2020 HD

    Devoted to the last days of Soviet writer, poet, and Gulag survivor Varlam Shalamov, this film follows the efforts of two of Shalamov’s most...

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  • 2005
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    Pavlov's Dog

    Pavlov's Dog

    4.5 2005 HD

    Two twenty-year-olds meet each other in the sanatorium and fall in love. Ksenia is an alchoholic, Maxim is suicidal. Gradually it becomes clear that...

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  • 1970
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    Shostakovich

    Shostakovich

    1 1970 HD

    An unusual illness — fear of movement — comes over Dmitry Shostakovich, depriving him not only of performing, but also of composing...

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  • 2020
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    Ortino Range

    Ortino Range

    1 2020 HD

    The Russian North. A place of ancient forces, traditions and ceremonies. Here the song continuously accompanies man throughout life: from mortal...

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  • 2024
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    The Flying Ship

    The Flying Ship

    5.2 2024 HD

    The Tsar is having his daughter Zabava marry a charmingly handsome and a handsomely charming Paul, a rich heir and a foreign fancy pants. However,...

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  • 2023
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    Little Nina & The Piano Thieves

    Little Nina & The Piano Thieves

    1 2023 HD

    Eight-year-old Nina is an impulsive and emotional girl, quickly igniting ideas and dropping them halfway. Nina would probably have abandoned her new...

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  • 2009
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    As If Waiting For A Bus

    As If Waiting For A Bus

    4 2009 HD

    Provinces. Winter. Evening. Bus stop. A car with young guys stops near a beautiful young girl. What happens next, in the literal and figurative...

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  • 2017
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    Amun

    Amun

    1 2017 HD

    A desperate Russian tourist goes to the Monastery of Temptation in Israel to find an elder healer called Amun to hopefully save his dying son s life....

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  • 2024
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    On This Earth

    On This Earth

    1 2024 HD

    Late 18th century. A runaway peasant earns the fame of the "Russian Icarus" when he tests his homemade wings with a daring jump from a rooftop. The...

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  • 2024
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    Barren Blossom

    Barren Blossom

    1 2024 HD

    Today the weather was warm. I dressed warmly. At three o’clock, I made a candle at Anya’s—and then drowned it. I’ll chat with...

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  • 1970
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    The Flying Ship 2

    The Flying Ship 2

    1 1970 HD

    Plot TBA. The sequel to Летучий корабль (2024).

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  • 2023
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    Cinema 3.0

    Cinema 3.0

    1 2023 HD

    The documentary series tells about the history of the new Russian cinema in the context of events that changed Russia forever. The narrative is built...

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  • 1970
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    Cinema 3.0

    Cinema 3.0

    1 1970 HD

    Russian Russian emperor and the ballerina who established the glory of Russian ballet. A passion that could change Russian history. A love that has...

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  • 1970
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    Cinema 3.0

    Cinema 3.0

    1 1970 HD

    Russian Russian emperor and the ballerina who established the glory of Russian ballet. A passion that could change Russian history. A love that has...

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  • 1970
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    Cinema 3.0

    Cinema 3.0

    1 1970 HD

    Russian Russian emperor and the ballerina who established the glory of Russian ballet. A passion that could change Russian history. A love that has...

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