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Darya Khrenova — a documentalist and the granddaughter of Ilya Trauberg, a successful apprentice of the great Sergey Eisenstein — is trying to solve the mystery of her grandfather’s death at DEFA studio, which he headed after WWII. During the process of the investigation she finds her family, gains more confidence, and takes up a challenge from her grandfather by directing feature films.
In the 20s, during the Civil War, a unique case arises - a Russian general of German origin leads the Equestrian Division and liberates Mongolia from Chinese invaders. Without losing faith in the return of the Russian monarchy, he is advancing from Siberia, occupied by the Bolsheviks. The new Genghis Khan named Roman Fedorovich Baron von Ungern-Sternberg has no idea that the "Western evil" of the revolution will be omnipotent. For the next hundred years.
In Russia, the attitude to death is paradoxically irrational – we all seem to live forever. Entrepreneur Sergey Yakushin is the only reasonable "madman" who conducted a funeral "revolution" in his native Novosibirsk. Yakushin himself turned around to face death after being diagnosed with late-stage cancer 15 years ago. And they gave me a year of life.
What is a war in the Far North and how can military operations be carried out among ice, rocks and bad weather? Many facts of the Great Patriotic War in the Arctic were hushed up for long Soviet years, there were too many losses and shortcomings. Admiral of the Northern Fleet, 34-year-old Arseniy Golovko, describes in detail the ups and downs of the beginning of the war in his diaries, which are now being restored for publication by his son Mikhail, who served in the Navy.
Yuri Gagarin is a real idol of the modern Leonardo da Vinci, the ingenious Italian artist Vincenzo Bianchi dedicated his museum on the mountain to the Soviet cosmonaut. The artist equates the spacewalk with the discovery by mankind of a new perspective, which once happened in the Italian Renaissance. The space discovered half a century ago is still not inhabited and not studied by man, so the Master invites like-minded people, students of the Moscow Art Lyceum, to the rock of Arts he created in Cervara di Roma, which rests on space. Does the New World Need Artists? And can they be one?
Pavlensky/Pawlenski, artist and activist, is leading the way in forging social change in Russia. Through an multiple courageous performances, he acts as society's conscience in the face of an increasingly totalitarian state. From lying naked in a coil of barbed wire, to nailing his scrotum to the floor of Red Square, his acts of defiance aim to spark debate and catalyse reform. This documentary follows his mission to challenge the state.
She was predicted the future of russian Coco Chanel of 21st century – untill her car accident. Consequences of a strong trauma fenced Nastya off from the whole world. But she doesn't intend to change the former way of life, to go on compromises in search of the life’s partner or to reduce the level of her claims.
Full-length documentary about the singers of the Cossack song ensemble Krugolet who are the only stars of the Siberian town of Dalnerechensk situated on the extreme border of China