Cast: Alexey Chadov, Ian Kelly, Ingebora Dapkunajte, Sergey Bodrov, Evklid Kjurdzidis, George Gurgulija, Stas Stotsky, Tatyana Patrahaltseva, Vladimir Gostjuhin, Jury Stepanov...
All begins with the main character Ivan Yermakov being interviewed, and as he begins his story cuts into the year 2000 during the Second Chechen War, after the fall of Grozny a Chechen warlord Aslan Gugayev runs a camp next to an aul in the highlands of Chechnya. Despite having secure income from his brigades in Moscow, Saint Peterburg and Samara as well as some legitimate business there, he takes joy in kidnapping.
Both Ivan and his comrade Fedka were enslaved after they were taken prisoners in early 2000. They also had to share their accommodation with a commercial Jewish hostage...
Cast: Victor Andrienko, Valery Chigljaev, Anatoly Djachenko, Armen Djigarkhanyan, George Kishko, Alexander Levit, Evgenie Papernyj, Vitaly Vasilikov, Jury Jakovlev, Vladimir Zadneprovsky...
It is the first musical film on the motives of R. Stivenson’s novel.
The schooner of "Ispanola" ploughs sea open spaces in search of island on which legendary treasures of the captain of pirates of Flint are hidden. By the ship plot ripens. Robbers led by one-legged John Silver, apparently, are close to the purpose …
Producer: Leonid Gaidai, Jacob Kostjukovsky, Moris Slobodsky
Cast: Alexander Demjanenko, Alexey Smirnov, Michael Pugovkin, Vladimir Basov, Natalia Seleznev, V.Rautbart, Victor Pavlov, Jury Nikulin, George Vitsin, Evgenie Morgunov, Vladimir Vladislavsky, M.Kravchunovskaja...
Segment "Workmate"
On a bus a boor and drunkard named Fedya takes a special seat for children and disabled persons and then refuses to let a young pregnant woman sit claiming that "she is neither child nor handicapped". Shurik, who is riding on the same bus, puts on sunglasses, pretends to be visually impaired, and when Fedya is urged to let him sit on his place, Shurik offers the seat to the woman. Fedya is enraged by being deceived and gets into a fight with Shurik. As a result, Fedya is arrested and sentenced for 15 days of community service. Ironically, he is sent to serve his term to...
Producer: Leonid Bykov, Evgenie Onoprienko, Alexander Satsky
Cast: Leonid Bykov, Sergey Podgornyj, Sergey Ivanov, Rustam Sagdullaev, Evgenie Simonov, O.Matejko, Vladimir Talashko, Victor Miroshnichenko, Alexey Smirnov, F.Fedorinsky, V.Jantbelidze, Alexander Nemchenko, V.Pashchenko...
Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.
The “old men” in this squadron were no older than twenty, but those “wet behind the ears”, a reinforcement fresh from flying schools with accelerated training, were not allowed to go to battle for quite a while.
They were yet to experience everything – the heat of the battle, the joy of the first victory over the enemy, the grandeur of a brotherhood strengthened with blood, the first love, and the bitterness of a loss.
And there came the day when, on hearing the command “only ‘old men’ are going to battle”, it was them who rushed...
Producer: Andrey Nekrasov, Efim Chepovetski, Ilia Vorobyov
Cast: Zinovi Gerdt, Yevgeni Paperny, Georgi Kishko, Eduard Nazarov, Grigori Shpigel, Semyon Farada, A. Burmistrov...
An important exhibit is stolen from the Royal Museum of Arts. Fux, its watchman and a gambler, was seduced by a mafia boss, also Chief of the Yacht Club, to steal the statue of Venus. The time of the theft was linked to an international regatta so that Fux could remove the stolen goods" out of the country.
The Soviet naval school teacher and former sea captain Vrungel, receives a telegram asking him to participate in the regatta. He and his pupil Lom decide to set sail for the starting port, although by one of the many freak accidents that occur during the adventure, their ship's name is...
Cast: Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Alexander Gould, Willem Dafoe, Brad Garrett, Joe Ranft, Allison Janney, Austin Pendleton, Stephen Root, Geoffrey Rush, Nicolas Bird, Erica Beck, LuLu Ebeling, Barry Humphries...
71% of the Earth's surface is covered by water. That's a lot of space to find one fish.
When the clownfish Marlin loses his wife, Coral, and all but one of his unborn children to a barracuda attack, he promises that he will never let anything happen to the only surviving egg, which he names Nemo, the name that his wife wanted as least one of her children to be named.
Later, Nemo begins his first day at school and is frustrated and embarrassed by his overprotective father. Marlin has constantly warned Nemo about the dangers of the ocean. To show his father that there's nothing to be afraid...
Survival of the fastest.
In the world of underground motorcycle clubs, the undefeated racer known as Smoke is the undisputed "King of Cali." But Smoke's dominance of the set is about to be threatened by a young motorcycle racing prodigy called Kid, who is determined to win Smoke's helmet and earn the coveted title.
Kid says that the difference between men and boys are the lessons they learn- and that his father, Slick Will, taught him plenty. Kid's mother, Anita, is left a single mother after Kid's father dies. A challenger for Smokes crown crashes, sending a bike hurtling into...
Cast: Woody Allen, Helen Hunt, Charlize Theron, Brian Markinson, Dan Aykroydю, John Tormey, Elizabeth Berkley, Kaili Vernoff, John Schuck, John Doumanian, Kevin Cahoon...
Love stings.
In 1940, CW Briggs is the top insurance investigator in New York--or so he keeps telling the firm's new efficiency expert, Betty Ann Fitzgerald. Briggs prides himself on being able to crack any insurance caper by getting into the mind of the thief, but now, thanks to the hypnotic powers of the Jade Scorpion, the mind of a thief is getting into Briggs.
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Cuba Gooding Jr, Donald Sutherland, Maura Tierney, George Dzundza, John Travis, Joe Tacke, Bertram Wallace, Manwell Hendrix, Kevin Michael Moore, Tim Goodwin, Pat McNamara, Christopher John Harris...
One man's mind is another man's mystery.
Within the brilliant mind of primatologist Ethan Powell lies an ominous secret, a deep-seated mystery unsolved by his estranged family and the law enforcement officials who have tracked him down and jailed him for murders that occured in the jungles of Rawanda. Highly educated and sophisticated Powell's truth was derived from years of studying mountain gorillas - to the point where he was living among them in the wild, and accepted as one of their own.
Now, held captive in a brutal prison for the criminally insane, Powell who has not spoken in...
Cast: Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank, Bruce Greenwood, Tcheky Karyo, Delroy Lindo, Stanley Tucci, DJ Qualls, Richard Jenkins, Christopher Shyer, Alfre Woodard...
Earth has a deadline.
The earth's inner core has stopped rotating, causing the planet's electromagnetic field to rapidly deteriorate. Instantly, life around the globe begins to change dramatically. In Boston, 32 people with pacemakers, all within a 10-block radius, suddenly drop dead. In San Francisco, the Golden Gate Bridge collapses, sending hundreds of people plunging to their deaths. In London's Trafalgar Square, flocks of pigeons lose their ability to navigate, flying into panicked crowds. And in Rome, as thousands of tourists watch helplessly, an electrical superstorm reduces the...