The film will be based around three of Hoffmann's tales (Klein Zaches, The Golden Pot and The Sandman), with the main character being Hoffmann himself. In particular, it will focus on the duality between the imaginative universe of his writings and his real-life profession as a government clerk (which will be based on his letters and journals)
This time on New Year, the favourite heroes of “Yolki” perform the usual nonsense and hope for a miracle. Borya needs to somehow restore family happiness, and for its sake is ready to steal a penguin from his best friend Zhenya. The Skier and Snowboarder have not matured and stage a mad chase for a Christmas tree. Manya learns how to use the Internet in the hope of finding her old love. The professor from Yekaterinburg has settled down, but now he goes mad from jealousy. In the far North a safety engineer must take a risk and, at last, confess his love. The bloggers who remained with- out Internet have to get out of a lift. Well, and the penguin simply needs to sit down urgently on an egg...
The end of the seventies. The Soviet country is "on the march". Plans are being fulfilled and overfulfilled, giant factories are being built, preparations for the Olympics are in full swing.
"Don't give up the bag and the prison," says a well–known proverb. And indeed, no one is immune from prison, including the innocent. Neither money, nor public opinion, nor the government will help. It is then that the last hope becomes a lawyer, his competent speech and knowledge of the law. The main character of our story is Trofim Petrovich Streltsov, the state Adviser of Justice of the 3rd class, a former employee of the prosecutor's office.
In the country of materialists, Messing is listed as a hypnotist and magician, he is both an experimenter and a test subject, and unofficially becomes Stalin’s own astrologer. He survived two dictators and remained here as an “unusual magician,” a strange predictor whose predictions invariably came true. Wolf Messing kept secrets that there was no one to share with him, secrets that died with him. But the greatest secret was himself, the genius and charlatan Wolf Messing.
Documentary series using dramatic reconstructions and testimony from witnesses to reveal the 'behind closed doors' politics of the Second World War.
12 jurors must decide whether an 18-year-old boy accused of murdering his stepfather, a Russian army officer who fought in Chechnya, is guilty. All the evidence points against the accused, and eleven of the twelve people gathered in the school gym are ready to convict the young man. But one of the jurors is sure that everything is not as clear as it seems at first glance, and suggests a more thoughtful consideration of the case.
The Idiot is a costume drama TV series produced by Russia TV Channel in 2003, based on Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel of the same title. The series' script is very close to Dostoevsky's original text, and the series features well-known Russian actors.
Detective television series based on the works of Arthur Conan Doyle. Five films about Sherlock Holmes, shot by Igor Maslennikov earlier, were remounted in 2000, a connecting story about Conan Doyle's literary secretary, Mr. Wood, who is preparing an anniversary collection of stories about Holmes for the beginning of the coming XX century. Sir Arthur receives huge mail every day, addressed not to him, but to Sherlock Holmes. And then one day a letter arrives with a plea for help, and Doyle begins an investigation...
Ukrainian native Alexei Vasilyevich Petrenko (b. March 26, 1938) has amassed a varied gallery of character and leading roles on Russian stage and screen including the titular “mad monk” in Elem Klimov’s 1981 “Rasputin”, Josef Stalin in BBC II’s docudrama “World War II: Behind Closed Doors”, and General Radlov in Nikita Mikhalkov’s “The Barber of Siberia”.
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