
Acting
Nikita Andreevich Kukushkin (Russian: Никита Андреевич Кукушкин; born November 14, 1990, Moscow) is a Russian theater and film actor, public figure. One of the leading actors of the Gogol-Center. He studied at a school with a theatrical bias "Class-center". As a teenager, he performed in the Children's Musical Theater of a young actor. Later, he entered the College of Culture in absentia, but took the documents after several months of study. Then he studied in the class of Kirill Serebrennikov at the Moscow Art Theater Studio School, after graduation he continued to work under the guidance of Serebrennikov at the Seventh Studio and the Gogol Center. He plays in most of the theater's performances. In 2019, he staged his first directorial work at the Gogol Center, the play "Bozhenka" based on the play by Valery Pecheykin. For his performance in the movie "Correction Class" he received a Special jury Prize of the Amur Autumn Festival. He starred in supporting roles in the films "Okolofootball", "Harms", "Captain Volkonogov Ran", "Attraction", the television series "Method", "Walking through the Torments", "Call Center". In 2020, he starred in the dystopian web series about Russia of the future "amroN" by the famous theater director Maxim Didenko. Kukushkin often appears in other popular video works, for example, video clips. A volunteer, he is the organizer of a number of charity projects, such as the "Good Box" (assistance to the poor) and "#yavpomosh" (assistance to pensioners during the coronavirus pandemic). Participated in flood relief in the Krasnodar Territory. Together with other famous actors, he recorded a video in support of the defendants in the "Moscow Case". In December 2020, he launched a new charity initiative "Help". As part of the initiative, a mobile application has been created in which the profiles of real people in need of help, as well as their stories, are displayed on the map. Users of the service donate funds, for example, to a consumer basket. The service reports quarterly and annually to users, providing photos and receipts of purchases made.

Valeriy Pecheykin's one-man theatrical piece explores and celebrates the life of Prince Vladimir Fyodorovich Odoyevsky, an aristocratic 19th-century Russian polyglot. Using inventive mechanical, musical, and acrobatic set devices, the play sketches out boundaries of Odoyevsky's eccentric character by imagining his pursuits across time and place.

Captain Fedor Volkonogov works in law enforcement. He is on the good books of the management, and his colleagues respect him. But one day, his life abruptly changes: he is declared a criminal. The Captain manages to run away before he is arrested. Suddenly he turns into an outcast, whom his former colleagues search across the whole city. At night Volkonogov is visited by a messenger from the other world, who warns him that after death he will go hell and be tormented forever. But he has an opportunity to change his fate and get to paradise if he repents, and at least one person forgives him. The Captain embarks on his way to find forgiveness. But he cannot even fathom what tests are awaiting him on this way.

A story of a young girl Claudia who works as a security guard on a slowly dying metal plant.

Returning to Saint Petersburg after a long exile, the dashing Yakovlev, a retired army officer, makes a comfortable living by winning other people's duels. An enigmatic, focused, and extremely skilled professional, he leaves a trail of dead bodies behind him as he swirls through polite society, frequently called upon to wield a pistol as a surrogate in duels at dawn. But when Yakovlev meets the naïve young Prince Tuchov and his beautiful sister, Princess Martha, the normally cold-hearted mercenary is surprised by hitherto undetected emotions. What transpires uncovers a series of revelations about his past and his present self.

This movie is about soccer hooligans, the most aggressive and violent soccer aficionados. They are an exclusive group, the elite of all soccer fans. Whoever they may be in their everyday lives—college students, bankers, musicians, or car mechanics—they are a “firm.” It’s easy to get into a firm, but once you’re in, it’s for life. There’s no going back. The movie is based on actual events

Lena is a bright, disabled girl who, after years spent studying at home, is keen to get back to school. She is assigned to a special class for disabled pupils who have to present themselves before a school commission at the end of the year in order to prove that they merit being moved back into a "normal" class. Her enervated teachers, however, show absolutely no desire to motivate the students and help them improve; on the contrary, they try to quash right from the start any interest Lena shows in more complex study material. Nevertheless, Lena soon involves herself in the school routine and gets together with classmate Anton. Yet their transparent happiness is not to everyone's liking and repercussions soon follow.

Anna, the young wife of a successful businessman Alexey, accompanies her husband on a business trip. The day of return is coming, but Lyosha does not appear either at home or in the office. His phone is not answering, his work colleagues do not know where the boss has disappeared. In the process of searching for an entrepreneur, interesting information of a piquant nature suddenly pops up. It turns out that Alexey, an exemplary family man, has a woman and an illegitimate daughter Tanya in another city...
Sleeping area of the city. The body of a seven-year-old girl was found in the river, not far from the house. There are no witnesses to the incident, but there is a strange young man who says he tried to save the girl.

A girl left a young handsome hockey player on the eve of the decisive match. Moreover, she did not go to anyone, but to a museum worker. To support a friend, five hockey players and a goalkeeper go to the museum to explain to the art critic that he did wrong and the woman must be returned. How could the athletes know that the museum is not just a place where statues stand and pictures are hung on the walls. That in giant vaults-storerooms, ancient as the world creatures, which our ancestors described in myths and legends, rest in frozen form. And they are supervised in the image of quiet museum workers by the same immortal humanoid entities…
Vera is left in the hospital to look after her sick grandmother. Vera is not ready for such responsibility. She is looking for support in a new acquaintance.


