
Acting
Aleksandr Viktorovich Yatsenko (Russian: Алекса́ндр Ви́кторович Яце́нко; born 22 May 1977; Volgograd) is a Russian actor. He appeared in more than thirty films since 2003. Two-time winner of the Nika Award for Best Actor (2016 and 2018) and two-time winner of the Golden Eagle Award for Best Actor in a Movie and for Best Actor in an online series (2024).

A writer in 1930s Moscow has his work banned and is expelled from the official union, leaving him without income. He then writes a novel about a mysterious dark visitor and gradually starts confusing his real life with the story.

Pavel Zuev has to start his life over from darkness after he looses his sight. The young man has to learn again how to eat, walk, wash himself, do simple housework, and even how to look out of the window without seeing anything. All connections to his previous life are broken. In this new life blind Zuev encounters an exceptional woman capable of seeing more than other people. Her name sounds symbolic – Nadezhda (translates as 'hope' into English) and she works at the local hospital. Nadezhda will help Zuev find his strength and a new sense of existing. These equally strong but otherwise different people spend together what, perhaps, will be the best days of their lives; but everything has an ending.

Five attempts to say the most important thing, through dumbness and fear of being misunderstood. Five steps to yourself, through the reflection in the closest people. Five breaths to go on, overcoming emptiness and fear of death, in search and finding love. Different heroes go this way with only one desire to be heard and accepted as they are. But is it possible?

In Chernobyl, the Global Kintech Corporation conducts illegal construction. A special interstate commission is trying to interfere with these plans, but right during a press conference, a group of unknown terrorists attacks its leader.

Crises happen in any relationship. The most romantic day of the year has prepared serious challenges for the heroes. Will they find the strength to cope? Or will they be scared and disperse? The film is about the fact that true love is able to conquer everything, even if Cupid's arrow accidentally hit the wrong place.

Colonel Koloda, recruited by foreign intelligence, stole secret documents of national importance. In fact, the documents are fake, disinformation for foreign intelligence agencies. The surveillance of the traitor leads the operatives to the bank, where he leaves the documents in the cell number 69. To establish who will come for them, Captain Alexey Vereshchagin comes to the bank under the guise of a client. Ironically, it is this bank that Mikhail Druskin, a desperate candidate of sciences and single father, wants to rob. When he sees the police, he takes the bank's visitors hostage in fright.

Three friends are in the entrance of a luxury home in the heart of the city. They are young, full of strength and energy, they have the talent, skill and thirst for life and ... - well, they have all but one. But money...

"Free Floating" is a melodrama with elements of comedy about a young lad from an ordinary provincial town like many in Russia, with just one kindergarten, one school, one factory. As a result, one grows up here never facing the alternative as to what to choose, for everything is preordained. Leonid is an ordinary lad who, like his peers, goes to discos, dances with girls and picks fights with the local riff-raff later. Everything is going well for him, as his life is totally predictable. But one day the factory closes down and he becomes disoriented. For the first time ever, he is to make a choice on his own and think seriously about what he would like to do...

Ksenia is an exemplary wife and mother. She obeys her greedy and ungrateful husband in everything, who takes Ksenia's reverence for granted. After learning about her husband's infidelity, Ksenia accidentally kills him during sex. Now the housewife has to hide the body, cover her tracks so as not to go to prison and leave the children orphaned, as well as find a way to make a living, because Ksenia does not have her own money, and she cannot use her husband's accounts without his presence.

Investigator Sergey Shumov has a mystery on his hands. On a platform near a Moscow-Sevastopol train station the police have found a young man without documents and no memory. In near perfect detail, he can recall historical dates, songs of his favorite band, but can't recollect his name or say where he’s from. And frustrating Shumov’s search for answers even further are the young man’s personal belongings that offer not one clue to his identity.


