The Ice Demon (2021)
Horror | Thriller
A man's sudden return home in a coma years after he's gone missing, throwing his family's life into disarray as his homecoming brings with it some terrifying and supernatural goings-on.
Starring: Alina Babak, Olga Lomonosova, Aleksey Rozin, Gleb Kalyuzhnyy, Igor Khripunov
Director: Ivan Kapitonov
Yaga. Koshmar tyomnogo lesa / Baba Yaga: Terror of the Dark Forest (2020)
Horror
The young family who moved to a new apartment on the outskirts of the city. The nanny hired by them for the newborn daughter quickly gained confidence. However, the older boy, Egor, talks about the frightening behavior of a woman, but his parents do not believe him. The surveillance cameras installed by the father for comfort only confirm everything is in order. Then one day, Egor, returning home, finds no trace of either the nanny or the little sister, and the parents are in a strange trance and do not even remember that they had a daughter. Then Egor, together with his friends, goes in search, during which it turns out that the nanny is an ancient Slavic demon, popularly known as Baba Yaga.
Starring: Oleg Chugunov, Glafira Golubeva, Artyom Zhigulin, Svetlana Ustinova, Aleksey Rozin, Maryana Spivak, Marta Timofeeva
Director: Svyatoslav Podgaevskiy, Nathalia Hencker
Loveless / Nelyubov (2017)
Drama
A couple going through a divorce must team up to find their son who has disappeared during one of their bitter arguments.
Starring: Maryana Spivak, Aleksey Rozin, Matvey Novikov, Aleksey Fateev, Varvara Shmykova, Marina Vasileva
Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev
Elena (2011)
Drama
Sixty-ish spouses Vladimir and Elena uneasily share his palatial Moscow apartment. He's a still-virile, wealthy businessman; she's his dowdy former nurse who has clearly "married up." Estranged from his own wild-child daughter, Vladimir despises his wife's freeloading son and family. But when a sudden illness and an unexpected reunion threaten the dutiful housewife's potential inheritance, she must hatch a desperate plan.
Starring: Nadezhda Markina, Andrey Smirnov, Aleksey Rozin, Elena Lyadova, Evgeniya Konushkina, Igor Ogurtsov
Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev
Leviafan / Leviathan (2014)
Drama
A present day social drama spanning multiple characters about the human insecurity in a "new country" which gradually unwinds to a mythological scale concerning the human condition on earth entirely.
Starring: Elena Lyadova, Aleksey Serebryakov, Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Roman Madyanov, Anna Ukolova, Aleksey Rozin
Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev
Bullet Collector / Sobiratel pul (2012)
Drama
A stunning, intense tale of a youth lost in an uncaring world, Bullet Collector is the first film from promising director Aleksandr Vartanov. A visual, moody masterpiece, this drama follows the traumas of a wide-eyed 14-year-old boy. He has a terrible home life with a step-father who can barely stand the sight of him. His school life is even worse as bullies torment and attack him with shocking regularity. And his life becomes even more torturous after he is sent to hellish reform school. Prone to day-dreaming about a life where he is loved, fights off his attackers and has a beautiful girlfriend, the reality of an entirely different and terrible life continually shocks him back to reality. Is he just a timid kid destined for abuse or will he gain the strength to fight off his attackers? Recalling the world of Antoine Doinel in François Truffaut's The 400 Blows, this unsettling, visually brilliant drama updates that classic by giving it a nightmarishly Russian spin.
Starring: Ruslan Nazarenko, Aleksandr Userdin, Yuliya Aug, Pyotr Ivanov, Aleksey Rozin, Ivan Basov, Aleksey Yagodkin
Director: Aleksandr Vartanov
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