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Aleksandr Fyodorovich Khvan (Russian: Александр Фёдорович Хван; 28 December 1957 – 17 September 2023; Cheboksary) was a Russian film director and actor. His debut film Dyuba-Dyuba was entered into the 1993 Cannes Film Festival. He died on 17 September 2023, at the age of 65.

Two childhood friends, and if you're being honest, then two trash with a criminal flavor get into a situation in which long-term friendship is not taken into account. What kind of trash is "trashier", the one who is trying to throw a friend for a certain amount of bucks, and in a very primitive way (they say the money was stolen while he was driving), or the one who, in an effort to return the money, takes the wife and child of his sidekick and companion hostage?

Homeless, all thrown Mephistopheles is suffering from idleness and boredom. In a market where you can buy everything - from gralic to books on Russian history, he manages to find the soul of a ballet dancer.

Vera and Vasya are students of the Pedagogical University. At first glance, they are so different – an excellent student and a boxer. But they have something that brings them closer – this is faith in love, in friendship, in a person. Very soon Vera and Vasya realize that they love each other. But not everyone is happy about their happiness.

Young architect Anna Zavyalova is betrayed by her lover. Pavel not only abandons her for a profitable marriage, but also appropriates her project. It is at this difficult moment that Anna meets pensioner Markova. This meeting forces the heroine to decide to fight for justice. Anna intends to return her project and help Markova get her rightfully assigned apartment.

Almanac of five short stories commissioned by ROSKOMKINO to celebrate the 100th anniversary of cinema.

The history of the confrontation between two worlds: the Grand Duchy of Moscow and the Ural Parma, the ancient Perm lands inhabited by pagans. Here heroes and ghosts, princes and shamans, Voguls and Muscovites will clash. At the center of the conflict of civilizations is the fate of the Russian prince Mikhail, who fell in love with the young Tiche, a witch-lamia capable of taking on the form of a lynx. Passion for the pagan and fidelity to forbidden love, a campaign against the Voguls, bloody battles and a short peace, the battle between Muscovy and Parma, the hero will face trials in which it is not so terrible to part with life as to commit treason.

25-year-old Merey lives a quiet but happy life in Almaty. By chance, she meets the charming Nurlan, who invites her to a birthday party in the mountains. She expects a simple celebration with new friends, but what ensues is an intense and tumultuous night that quickly spirals into a dark game of cat-and-mouse.

A detective-dramatic chronicle of love adventures of the famous Russian ballerina Olga Spesivtseva, nicknamed by contemporaries Red Giselle. It was Giselle who immortalized her name in 1924. It was "Giselle" that caused the psychic catastrophe in 1942.

Police is investigating a series of explosions in Moscow subway.

Masha, who works for a radio station, and Maxim, a street sweeper with an architectural degree, cross paths with each other when they are at an indecisive point in their lives.


A young and handsome prison guard falls in love with a beautiful lady-prisoner. She makes him hooked on sex and manipulates him into becoming a gang member. He kills and steals under her control.

Andrei's ex-girlfriend Tania (Anzhela Belyanskaya) has been constantly in danger of going to jail since he knew her. Their breakup was not his doing, and he is determined to keep her out of jail. Andrei (Oleg Menshikov) has a notion that, if he can raise enough money, he can smuggle her out of Russia into New York, where all will be well. While Andrei's grasp on reality may be tenuous, his ability to maneuver and scheme is unimpaired. He is a student filmmaker, and the kind of money he needs to save Tania with doesn't grow on trees. He begins raising funds by mugging men at public toilets, and graduates to stealing the drug money accumulated by more serious gangsters. After he has raised the money to accomplish his goal, his girl, the light of his life, confesses that she despises him, and then goes out and gets arrested.

Vera and Vasya are students of the Pedagogical University. At first glance, they are so different – an excellent student and a boxer. But they have something that brings them closer – this is faith in love, in friendship, in a person. Very soon Vera and Vasya realize that they love each other. But not everyone is happy about their happiness.

The simplest Russian woman unexpectedly gets in the way of a violent criminal. She must at all costs give them the required (and for her just incredible) amount of money, otherwise her daughter is in danger. How to find a way out? Tormented by this question, she makes a difficult decision.

Marina, a beautiful and talented professor's daughter, drags out a miserable existence. After the death of her father, she threw all her strength into helping her married lover Yuri to advance in the service. And after becoming dean, Yuri, in order to avoid gossip, left Marina as a laboratory assistant.

Confident, determined, successful Oksana is realized not only in work. In her personal life, too, everything is fine. It was. Until Vera appeared in Oksana's office, concerned about the problems of her wards from a boarding school for minors. In addition, due to Oksana's fault, Vera was hospitalized. Verina's problems need to be solved urgently - and Oksana gets down to business, rolling up her sleeves. To expose corrupt officials, to find lost children, to cope with a teenage riot - this is the plan for the week. I have to call for help from my ex-husband, who still cannot understand why he is an ex. This is how this story begins, which will teach Oksana to believe, forgive and love.

Marina is over 40, she works as a dressmaker in an atelier, lives with her adult daughter Leroy, whom she raised and brought up alone. Mentally "giving up on herself," Marina does not notice that a client falls in love with her - a solid businessman Veligorov, only very shy...

Evgenia, a metropolitan woman with a strong character, works as the head of the investigative department. After the divorce, she built a protective "shell" and cannot find a worthy companion. Kostya is a milker on a farm in a small village. His personal life is also not going well, and it seems that no changes are expected. By chance, the characters get acquainted on a "Blind Date", where Zhenya appears to be a kindergarten teacher, and Kostya is a rich entrepreneur. Deception entails a lot of incidents and contradictions, and the further it goes, the more difficult it turns out to get out of it..

Young architect Anna Zavyalova is betrayed by her lover. Pavel not only abandons her for a profitable marriage, but also appropriates her project. It is at this difficult moment that Anna meets pensioner Markova. This meeting forces the heroine to decide to fight for justice. Anna intends to return her project and help Markova get her rightfully assigned apartment.

