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Selected Series and TV-Films

Seasons 2008-2016

Monte RossoFilms

SERIES16-60 Episodes

S E R I E S 16-60 Episodes

SKLIFOSOFSKY (4 seasons)Seasons 1-4. 24 Episodes x 4. 2011-2015.

Seasons 5 and 6 coming in 2016-2017. 16 Episodes x 2.

The series goes behind the scenes at the famous ‘Sklif’, the principal Moscow emergency care hospital. There, time is of the essence, as the’Sklif’ is all about emergency surgery. Saving a life requires that an immediate, on-the-spot decision be taken. The charismatic surgeon Bragin is an emergency care ace, and besides his professionalism, he is also an inveterate womaniser. Dealing with life and death on a daily basis, Bragin long ago abandoned all pretence of sentimentality and he does not care about other people’s feelings, while only the ‘grand passions’ amuse him.

Years: 2012-2015Episodes: 96Genre: melodramaDirector: Andrey SelivanovDuration: 44 minHD

THE LIMITS

Two friends Andrei and Dmitry are orphans who recently graduated from a military academy. They are frontiersmen and they come to a frontier town called Sons (Pine Trees), where Andrei used to live. He was adopted by Colonel Reutov and his wife Darja and is in love with their daughter, Polina, whom he hopes to marry her, but for Polina, Andrei is merely a childhood friend. Soon she realises that her heart belongs to Andrei’s friend, Dmitry.

Year: 2015Episodes: 16Genre: melodramaDirector: Yusup RazykovDuration: 44 minHD


FATHER MATVEY

Father Matvey comes to a parish in a small town with his family, a quiet place, where he is eager to live peacefully. However, life in the town isfar from calm and peaceful. The townspeople are not as righteous as it might seem and this small town is full of terrifying , eerie secrets. Father Matvey tries to resolve these problems, but he suddenly finds himself involved in something awful. Will he be able to help people who are not eager to be saved? Will he be strong enough to defeat this evil? What will happen to him and his family?

Years: 2013-2015Episodes: 20Genre: detectiveDirector: Valery DevyatilovDuration: 44 minHD

A YEAR IN TUSCANY

A happy couple, Rita and Ilia are getting married. A talented architect always creatively engaged, Ilia is designing a villa in Tuscany for a mil-lionaire family, the Farbays. At the same time, Rita is trying to provide for the two of them, so that her fiancé could continue his creative search. She too is an graduate architect and slaves away at her job with a publicity agency. A day before their wedding, Rita accidentally saves the life of a famous actor called Mike, literally dragging him from under the wheels of a bus. While Rita helps the capricious star to come round, her fiancé perishes in a motorcycle crash. Inconsolable, Rita goes to Tuscany to complete the work that her beloved started.

Year: 2014Episodes: 16Genre: melodramaDirector: Andrey SelivanovDuration: 44 minHD


MOSCOW BORZOI

Alevtina Borzova is a clever, good-looking young woman. She is a police major in Moscow. Alevtina is a proffessional. Her colleagues appreciate her, the bosses praise her. But when her private life comes to light she has to resign. She is proposed to take charge of the criminal investigation department in Nizhny Novgorod. Alevtina leaves Moscow. But things don’t run smoothly at once. She has to enter the cohesive team of men. They are not eager to work under a woman’s guidance. Every day of Alevtina;s life turns into a struggle for survival. But she is determined to prove that she deserves the post.

Year: 2014Episodes: 16Genre: detective, melodramaDirector: Roman Prosvirnin,

Egor Anashkin

SMALL-TIME TRADERS

It’s a story about strong women of the mid 1990s. About the women who had to carry the hardships of providing for families on their shoulders during the period of»original accumulation of capital». The action takes place in a town not far from Moscow in 1994.

Year: 2016Episodes: 16Genre: melodramaDirector: Yulia Krasnova


BLACK CAT

«Black Cat» - a gang that consists of young men. They are sportsmen, komsomoltsi, strike workers, but only during the day. At night the whole city lives in panic and fear because of them. Everybody knows them , knows their names but one can hardly guess they are gangsmen who rob the citizens of Moscow and the nearby region. Tthe officers of the Moscow Criminal Investigations Department (MUR) are looking for these model young men. It takes them several years to find the criminals and to catch them.

Year: 2016Episodes: 16Genre: drama, detectiveDirector: Anton Sivers

MINI SERIES

6-8 Episodes

M I N I S E R I E S 6-8 Episodes

Years: 2016Genre: melodramaEpisodes: 8Director: Alexander EfremovDuration: 44 minHD

Years: 2016Genre: melodramaEpisodes: 8Director: Alexander EfremovDuration: 44 minHD

SHE HAD NO CHOICEThis is a story about the talented singer Valentina, who achieved success while she was still a student at a university of Culture and the Arts in 1966. It is at this point in time that Valentina gets to know the leader of a popular jazz band, a man who was later to become her husband, but the happiness of an aspiring singer does not endure for long, and a whole succession of problems and betrayals await her but she overcomes them all, and achieves a meteoric career and finds a new love.

ALL THE TREASURES OF THE WORLDHaving graduated from university, Anna returns to her native town of Pri-morsk. having given up her career in Moscow to look after her sick mother. Once there, - she has a lucky break and finds an interesting job in an antiques shop and meets her first love, the handsome Vlad. Soon Anna becomes preg-nant and they decide tot marry. Anna is happy and her life is like a fairy tale. However, she has no idea she took Vlad away from Voronova, the daughter of a very powerful official, and this woman swears to have her revenge on Anna at any cost.

THE WOMAN DOCTORKate Zakharova is destined to have a brilliant musical career, but one day all her dreams come crashing down like a house of cards, when she falls victim to an estate agent’s swindle, which leaves her penniless and homeless. Moreover, her mother suffers a stroke. To save her mother Kate gives up music and becomes a doctor, but her mother dies and then she decides to revenge herself on the man who destroyed her life. After a long search she finds herself in a village, where she meets her true love. It seems as if fate is smiling on her once more. Suddenly, she learns something that not onlydestroys her hopes of happiness but even pulls the rug out from under her her feet...

Year: 2016Genre: melodramaEpisodes: 8Director: Ekaterina DvigubskayaDuration: 44 minHD


Year: 2015Genre: melodramaEpisodes: 8Director: Roman ProsvirninDuration: 44 minHD

Year: 2015Genre: melodramaEpisodes: 8Director: Andrey SelivanovDuration: 44 minHD

FALSE NOTE Marina, nicknamed Mouse, is a good, decent girl. She enters the con-servatory of music, and her mother, the famous actress Inga Belozerova finds the best teacher for her. Marina is fascinated by the teacher’s son Kiril, and they fall in love with each other...However, some secrets from a dark past are revealed. Inga once hade a passionate love affair with Kiril’s father Vyacheslav, and Inga and Vyacheslav meet again after twenty years and they now realise they still love each other...

ROCK-CLIMBERA married couple, Irina and Leonid, rescue a little girl, who miraculously survived a car accident in the mountains. They have no children of their own, and having decided that the girl’s family died in the accident, they adopt her and name her Nina. As years go by, she grows up and becomes a real beauty. When Leonid, a former climber, dies in a tragic accident, Irina devotes all her time to her daughter. The only thing that upsets her is that Nina is fascinated by the mountains and dreams of following Leonid in his career and becoming a rock-climber... Meanwhile, in faraway Ossetia an old monk discovers Nina’s brother Michael. to whom he confesses, that, being a doctor, he gave up the girl, who survived the accident, to be brought up by strangers...

KARINAThe first love of the beautiful and strong-minded Karina was an un-happy one. Her boyfriend Misha, whose actions caused the death of a pedestrian, let her take the blame and broke up with her. Unexpectedly, Karina receives a marriage proposal from her father’s friend, an influential and mature man, the owner of a watch repair shop. Having lost her illusions, this young woman marries a man, who has secrets of his own to conceal...Year: 2015

Genre: melodramaEpisodes: 8Director: Evgeny LavrentyevDuration: 44 minHD


Year: 2014Genre: melodramaEpisodes: 8Director: Leonid MazorDuration: 44 minHD

Year: 2015Genre: melodramaEpisodes: 8Director: Valery DevyatilovDuration: 44 minHD

THE BALLOON WILL FLY BACKTanya, Vera, Shura and Sveta are classmates and close friends. Although they differ from each other, they still remain inseparable, and it seems that will remain so. However. their high school graduation party brings a disaster that shatters their cosy dreams of a happy life. Defending her friend Shura from bullies, Tanya becomes a victim herself and is raped. Her friends do not come to her aid, and each one is concerned about her one’s own life. After this tragedy their friendship collapses. Tanya cannot forget their betrayal, wants to forget the past and start her life over from scratch. The girls will have to face many hardships, re-evaluate their actions and learn to forgive before they find their own paths in life, their own happiness and understanding that they are bound together by their destiny...

MOTHER-IN-LAW’S DIARY Lena and Pavel are an intelligent married couple. The atmosphere in their family is filled with respect and mutual understanding. One day their son Danya, the family’s only child, gives them an unpleasant surprise, in the shape of his ill-bred and vulgar fiancee Nyusia. For the sake of their son’s happiness, Lena and Pavel give their consent to this marriage, but their life turns into a living nightmare.

MONEYAlexey Barannikov is a talented Soviet scientist. Just after his graduation from university he is declared an enemy of the government and ex-pelled from Moscow. His fiancee Lyudmila accompanies him. Years go by. Alexey and Lyudmila lead a poor life, full of hardships. However, one day he decides to stage an incredible fraud, that promises to change his life overnight...

Year: 2014Genre: melodramaEpisodes: 8Director: Egor AnashkinDuration: 44 minHD


Year: 2014Genre: melodramaEpisodes: 8Director: Roman BarabashDuration: 44 minHD

Year: 2014Genre: melodramaEpisodes: 8Director: Igor MuzhzhukhinDuration: 44 minHD

TIME OF THE DAUGHTERS Veronica is an adopted child, but an unexpected tragedy destroys her happy family, as her adoptive parents die in a car accident, caused by a millionaire called Kovtun, who is responsible but escapes punishment. Veronica comes to a shocking understanding that Kovtun was involved in the case of her own biological parents’ death many years before and she resolves to uncover the truth.

I WILL OVERCOME EVERYTHINGLuda is a true Russian woman, who works herself to death and is always ready to lend a hand. An awful tragedy ruins her life, when her husband dies in the fire that burns her house to the ground. This young woman receives no support, and even her relatives betray her. Will she be able to overcome all her troubles and start a new life?

THE VIEW FROM ETERNITYBased on the trilogy by A.Marinina. Luba is a kind and modest girl, raised in a strict family. Since childhood she has felt an unrequited love for the handsome Rodya, a spoilt egoistic guy, who views her only as a friend and is in love with a local beauty, a Greek girl called Aella, but Luba endures bravely and keeps hoping for happiness. Through sheer chance, her dream comes true and Rodya marries her, if only unwill-ingly. However, can a woman be happy in a family, if she is the only one who feels love?

Year: 2013Genre: melodramaEpisodes: 8Director: Alexander HvanDuration: 44 minHD


Year: 2013Genre: melodramaEpisodes: 8Director: Stanislav NazirovDuration: 44 minHD

Year: 2012Genre: melodramaEpisodes: 8Director: Dmitry BulinDuration: 44 minSD

I REMEMBER EVERYTHINGA young girl called Masha is detained by the police together with some homeless people. Her exquisite manners and an expensive ring contrast sharply with a vagabond lifestyle. However, she girl does not remember anything about her past and cannot explain how she happened to be on the streets. Soon the police manage to identify her, and this news is really shocking. According to official records, Masha died in a fire and was buried a long time ago, and the police investigation will have to sort out this sophisticated , evil plot.

GIVE ME A SUNDAYA young Moscow doctor Andrei finds himself a small village and meets an artist, Liza. This naive and innocent girl believes that she fate sent her true love six months ago, and that before meeting Andrei she painted his portrait. However, Andrei is not that naïve, and it turns out that he argued about her with his friend, which she finds out too late.

KEYS TO THE PASTA twenty-seven-year-old provincial girl Alisa attracts the attention of the respectable businessman Kulikov. He charms her. Soon feeling absolutely happy she marries him, but family life very soon turns into a nightmare, and his past conceals even more secrets than his present, while Alisa’s life is now in danger. She now faces a long journey to find the keys to these secrets and meet her true love.

Years: 2011-2012Genre: melodramaEpisodes: 8Director: Vladimir DmitriyevskyDuration: 44 minHD


Year: 2011Genre: melodramaEpisodes: 8Director: Roman ProsvirninDuration: 44 min

Year: 2011Genre: melodramaEpisodes: 6Director: Roman ProsvirninDuration: 44 min

GYULCHATAY A very beautiful, kind and modest girl named Gyulchatay lives in a small Asian village. She is only seventeen and dreams of becoming a nurse and helping people. One day she meets the charming Pavel, a Russian soldier from a military unit, and they fall for each other. At the same time, Rustam, the son of Alisher, the powerful ‘village boss’ returns from the city. This spoiled ‘brat’ sets his mind on marrying the girl. Understanding that Gulya may not want to marry him, Rustam cunningly gets her father, a poor shepherd, to incur a huge debt, which can be cancelled only by him offering Gyulchatay’s hand in marriage.

EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF Based on a novel by A.Marinina. Nika is a stunning young woman; her life is a dream come true: good looks, a loving husband and a flour-ishing business. ‘I’ve been lucky in Moscow since day one,’ she says. However, all at once her good luck evaporates, Nika’s husband plunges into debt and must find thirty thousand US dollars within a few days or lose his life. To save him, Nika lands a job as a housekeeper, and gets a loan for the required amount, tying herself to her employers for 2.5 years. It seems as if her bad luck is over, but the main blow still awaits her. Having taken the money, Nika’s husband leaves her for a new love. Nika is left alone with her despair and a new ‘family’ that live by totally different rules.

TORGSINIt is 1934. Muscovites are enjoying themselves. No more famine. Ration cards are to be cancelled in the nearest future. The first death sentences (“execution processes”) have been handed down. Nevertheless people are full of hope. Torgsin stores (Russian acronym for “trade with foreigners”) are in the thick of it. Wealthy Muscovites can buy anything here: holiday packages, foreign-made goods. Middle-class families buy holiday cakes. The poor loan their last possessions, earrings and rings, here not to die of hunger. A young girl, Lida Sokolskaja, suspects that the director of the store, Victor Serebrov, is guilty of killing her family during the Civil War. He is the enemy. Lida gleans information about Serebrov’s past military experience but unwillingly the girl is gradually falling in love with him.

Year: 2016Episodes: 8Genre: retro, melodrama, detectiveDirector: Sergei Ginsburg

MINI SERIES

4 Episodes(2 Parts x 90 min)

M I N I S E R I E S 4 Episodes

CAZANOVA’S BELOVED WOMENIvan is the only man in the family. His grandmother, mother and two sisters lavish care upon him. They do not give him a chance, constantly advising him on personal matters. Once the young man makes an agreement with a young eccentric girl, whom hen introduces her to his family as his wife, and does so on purpose. He reasons that when he brings his true love to his house, his family will be glad to meet her. His relatives are puzzled, they cannot stand their crazy daughter-in-law, but this young woman gradually changes the family’s settled way of life.

HEALERЗнахарка

Lesja, a young beauty, has a rare gift: she can cure people of diseases that even modern medicine cannot tackle. Her gift is inherited t from her late mother, while her grandmother is also a healer. They live together in an old house in the village, where one day a rich businessman called Arkadi arrives. He has been trying without success to cure a serious injury, but Lesja manages to successfully cure him. He and Lesja fall in love and Arkadi proposes to her. Lesja’s fate seems certain: a happy life in the city, in a luxurious apartment with a loving husband... However, Lesja’s grandma is in despair. as she is the only person who knows that Lesja’s gift will vanish once she lives in the city.

Years: 2012-2015Genre: melodramaDirector: Sergey BystritskyHD

Year: 2016Genre: melodramaDirector: Vladimir TumayevHD


Year: 2015 Genre: melodramaDirector: Andrey KanivchenkoHD

Year: 2015Genre: detectiveDirector: Stanislav NazirovHD

VERA’S STRENGTHThirty-year-old Vera has always dreamed of having a child. Unfortunately she has no chance of becoming a happy loving mother. One day she discovers that this very fact is the main reason for her husband’s infidelity and that he has another family and a child. Vera thinks she will never forgive him, but real life makes her change her mind. Some time later her former husband and his new wife die in a car accident that left the child, the reason for her loneliness, an orphan. Will she be able to love another woman’s child? Will she understand that a mother is not necessarily the woman who gives birth but the one who raises the child?

HALF-SISTERMasha’s parents are divorced and she now has a new father. Her world is destroyed and she is unable to create a new one because her half-sister Nastya stands in her way. Masha now lives in the room where Nastya’s mother used to live. The pain of her loss is still so strong in Nastya’s heart and years go by but her hatred does not diminish.

THEORY OF IMPROBABILITY Irina and Victor have been living happily together, but their family life might collapse when Irina learns about her husband’s infidelity. In an attempt not to shoot from the hip, Irina does not tell Victor that she knows the truth, as she is eager to keep her marriage strong. Irina’s friend advises her to go and see a witch., but a dramatic turn of events prevents her from completing her magical errand as the witches die one after another...

Year: 2016Genre: melodramaDirector: Alexander KarpilovskyHD


Year: 2015 Genre: melodramaDirector: Yury LeyzerovHD

Year: 2015Genre: melodramaDirector: Yury PavlovHD

TREATMENT FOR SEPARATIONKate, a music teacher, meets Vlad, a businessman. He pays court to her and they are soon choosing wedding rings. Kate does not know that Vlad is already married, and it is thanks to his wife that he is now so wealthy, but his wife Irina is unhappy, as she cannot have children and gives her husband all her love and care. Soon Kate has a run of bad luck. She is dismissed from her job and is unable to get another one. She gives music lessons but the mother of a pupil accuses her of flirting with her husband. Vlad’s company goes bankrupt and the investors demand their money back. Vlad is going to run away with the money that is left, leave his wife and take Kate with him, and unaware that he is a swindler, she agrees...

STEPMOTHER’S TALES Yelena’s peace and happiness are ruined when her husband Sergey is involved in a car accident. He survives, but it turns out he was not alone in the car. Yelena learns to her horror that the woman that died in the accident was her husband’s lover. Three children are now orphans now of whom the youngest is Sergey’s son...

MY MOTHER, MY RIVALValentina is a young-looking pretty woman, who teaches at the univer-sity. Her daughter Olga is just fifteen but she is already a student. One day discord comes into their peaceful life and soon turns into a conflict. A young postgraduate Pavel is to blame, as both the mother and the daughter fall in love with him.

Year: 2015Genre: melodramaDirector: Andrey SelivanovHD


Year: 2015 Genre: melodramaDirector: Valery DevyatilovHD

Year: 2015Genre: melodramaDirector: Sergey MezentsevHD

CHANCELife is hard for Zhenya Sokolova. Like many other country girls, she moved to the district centre, got a job as a restaurant cook and fell in love with a handsome young man, but soon found herself pregnant and cast aside. Zhenya is on the brink of returning home, but faces an ordeal, as our heroine finds herself involved with crime. Criminals start preying on Zhenya, and she has to escape in order to save herself and her unborn baby..

A WIFE TOO BEAUTIFULThe Protasov family: Garik, a professor of literature, his wife, Lena, a paediatrician, and their young daughter Anya lead a modest life in a small town. Anya is a professional ballet-dancer, and on graduating from school she is invited to join a well-known dance studio in Moscow. For the sake of their daughter’s career, the Protasovs move to Moscow, yet their life there is far from being easy. Despite his vast teaching ex-perience, Garik is forced to work as a watchman, and Lena, as a nurse, while is being treated with hostility by her new colleagues. Yet the greatest threat comes from an unexpected source, their neighbour, the millionaire Mareyev, who is fascinated by Lena and is prepared to win her love at any cost...

THE PRICE OF LOVEElena, an Italian language teacher, decides one day that her life no longer has a simple women’s happiness. She is married, there had been love and passion between her and her husband, but sadly their daily routine put paid to these feelings, and her daughter Katya is the only reason for her not filing for divorce. One day Andrei joins Elena’s students and she becomes infatuated with this young man and forgets about the difference between their ages, her obligations and her reputation...

Year: 2015Genre: melodramaDirector: Alexander HvanHD


FIFTH FLOOR, NO ELEVATOR

Year: 2015Genre: melodramaDirector: Sergey KrasnovHD

Year: 2015Genre: melodramaDirector: Sergey MezentsevHD

Anton and Sima graduated from drama school, and are now successful realtors. They live in a civil marriage, the love of their younger days having been replaced by habit a long time ago. One day an unusual client comes to their agency. Boris , who has left London and wishes to buy an apartment in Moscow, a modest dwelling in a time-worn five-storey building. He has a reason for such a choice as this is where he was happy as a child. Unfortunately, its owners are absolutely against selling. So Sima, a real business woman, comes up with a cunning scheme to force them to vacate it...

MELODY IN TWO VOICES Irina and Sergey meet on a day that is hard on both of them as they have signed their divorce papers with their respective spouses in a registry office. Irina is a daughter of a successful, businessman Roman Alexeyevich Kudryashov, a familiar figure in their city. Used to luxury and wealth, she remains a kind and unassuming young woman. On graduating from university Irina chooses the difficult career of an obstetrician in a maternity hospital. Sergey comes from an ordinary family of intellectuals. He received a fine education and an interesting job only thanks to his knowledge and hard work. The love that overwhelmed Irina and Sergey promises them happiness. They decide to be together and cannot wait to introduce their parents to each other. Yet this young couple could not be expected to foresee that this meeting would end in disaster...

A WEAK WOMANLyusa is a true woman. She is a loving mother, good housekeeper and a faithful wife, butt her husband is a real monster and, moreover, he had had an affair. After that, Lyusa’s life became unbearable., but one day she met her true love. Her sweetheart Alexander was also married but nothing could stop them. They are going to get married. Learning of this, her husband kicks her out of the house and her son does not want to see her. The real tragedy has yet to happen and Alexander soon dies in a car accident. Will Lyusa be able to start a new life in poverty, without any qualifications, and with no support and also a broken heart.

Year: 2014Genre: melodramaDirector: Vsevolod AravinHD


Year: 2014Genre: detectiveDirector: Stanislav NazirovHD

Year: 2014Genre: melodramaDirector: Igor KechayevHD

MANIAC BELYAEV’S FAMILYKiril and Anna Belyaevi are a good respectable family who live peace-fully and are raising two children. Everything would be fine were the town not in a state of shock due to a series of awful murders. The po-lice are run off their feet trying to capture the maniac but all is in vain. In the end they manage to arrest a suspect. This proves to be ... Kiril Belyaev. He has no alibi and the evidence is against him. Is it possible that a model family man had been concealing his terrible double life? Or is Kiril’s arrest a mistake?

LATE FLOWERSVera’s happiness is destroyed when her much loved husband leaves her for a young lover. Vera is in despair, but fortunately she meets Sergey, a gallant widower and a pilot. They are drawn to each other from their first meeting, but their happiness faces many obstacles. Sergey’s dangerous job involves some nasty surprises, and, furthermore, the heart of this enviable fiancé has long since been claimed by his old girlfriend who is ready to fight for her love.

A FATHER FOR SOFIAThere is little joy in Varia’s life. Endless and indistinguishable working days, no love, and her youth is fading. She no longer expects any changes and is used to passion and romance being the lot of her bright girlfriends, who for good reason call her a “blue stocking” However, fate brings Igor into her life, an imposing Muscovite who comes to her company to audit its books. Varia loses her head and spends a night with him. Returning home, he invites her to visit him just out of politeness. Of course, he could not imagine she would quit her job and come to Moscow out of love..

Year: 2014Genre: melodramaDirector: Sergey LyalinHD


Year: 2014Genre: melodramaDirector: Artem NasybulinHD

Year: 2014Genre: melodramaDirector: Artem NasybulinHD

MEMORY OF THE HEARTA sudden disaster ruins the life of seventeen-year-old l Sahsa. Her parents and a two-year-old sister burn to death in their own house. It turns out that gangsters had threatened Sasha’s father. Sahsa is at a loss. She has no home, no money and no relatives. She cannot live in her hometown any more. The only thing that makes sense is to understand what happened to her family and why her little sister’s remains have not been found.

NADEZHDANadja, an ordinary girl from a small town, sees her boyfriend off as he goes to his contracted term of military service. She tries in vain to dissuade from undertaking this dangerous enterprise, but he is determined and does not want to live in poverty. He leaves despite her persuasion, while her woman’s heart ached for a reason and a terrible letter soon informs her that her fiancé is missing.

REDNECKLida, an ordinary, modest girl, lives with her mother in the village of Kolpakovo and dreams of becoming an air hostess. She only saw her father once, five years ago. At that meeting with Lida he gave her some silver earrings and an invitation to visit once she had finished school. When Lida’s mother marries, she feels that she is not part of this new family, and goes to Moscow, full of vague hopes and dreams of happiness. Lida stays with her father, a promising chemist. He is happy to have her join his family, but his pretentious wife and whimsical spoilt daughters are unhappy about the ‘redneck’ living alongside them and are willing to do anything to be rid of her.

Year: 2014Genre: melodramaDirector: Vladimir UstyugovHD


Year: 2013Genre: melodramaDirector: Boris RabeyHD

Year: 2013Genre: melodramaDirector: Alexander ZamyatinHD

WIDOWERVera’s private life is a disaster. Instead of falling in love with her, men burden her with all their trials and tribulations, and soon abandon her. After her second husband leaves her, Vera goes to a resort, hoping to sooth her aching heart. There she meets the joyful and carefree Alyona and her little son. However, her joy is short-lived as tragedy befalls her new friends during a storm.

THE HUMAN ELEMENTAnya is a good employee and a loving wife. Only her mother-in-law thinks she is not a good match for her son and constantly picks on her. Anya’s husband Alexey cannot stand the pressure and runs off to Moscow to earn some money. Moreover, the company in which they invested the hard-earned money that they had saved for an apartment, goes bankrupt, and the young married couple, deep in debt, have to stay in Anya’s shared apartment. Anya is left alone.

FORGET-ME-NOTS Alena, an innocent young girl from a small town, recently finished school and is sitting the Moscow Conservatory admission exams. All her plans are suddenly changed by her first, and unfortunately unrequited ,love. Alena falls head over heels for an officer named Artem. He has no interest in the feelings of a girl that he hardly knows, as he has his own life and love affair. Probably, Alena would move to Moscow and make a fresh start, but Artem, a captain with an impeccable track record, is sent to prison on a false charge. As she learns of this, the romantic Alena follows her beloved to the penal colony settlement, though he does not care a bit about her.

Year: 2013Genre: melodramaDirector: Yury PavlovHD


Year: 2013Genre: melodramaDirector: Sergey KomarovHD

Year: 2013Genre: melodramaDirector: Boris RabeyHD

THE HOUSE OF SLEEPING BEAUTIESAn unusual family lives in an antique apartment in an old mansion. There are no men there, and the four generations of women share the same rare patronymic - Ignatyevna, after their great-great¬ grand-father, the only worthy man in the family. The curse of the ‘Empire of Iron Ladies’ ruined the lives of the three of them, and the fourth, the beautiful Marina, the youngest in the family is the next in line. Modest and reserved like a nineteenth century lady, she is twenty-three and has never been in love. Will she be able to escape from her grandmother’s ‘bondage’ and meet her Prince Charming, or is she destined to remain a ‘sleeping beauty’?

ANYA’S HAPPINESSA young lively girl ,Anya, returns to her home village from the orphanage where she went to live after her mother died. She goes to stay with her elder brother whom she has not seen for years, but does not feel at home, as he has his own family, and she is not welcome there. Suddenly it turns out that the village ‘boss’ Yumashev, the owner of a large farm, is Anya’s father. Many years ago, he abandoned her mother and now, remorseful, he decides to make up for his negligent fatherhood. Shortly afterwards, he suddenly dies, leaving her his farm. However, instead of a wonderful life, she is pursued by gangsters who have long had their eyes on this land and jump at the chance to rob a defenceless woman.

OF LOVE ALONEThe scene is set in late 1980s in the small town of Zavodsk. Lesya is a beautiful, gifted but ill-tempered woman, and after her parents died, she was raised by her elder sister Katya. For Lesya’s sake, she aban-doned her dream of becoming an actress and worked like a dog to give Lesya everything she needed. Shortly after Lesya left school, she received a proposal from an admirer who was madly in love with her and which she accepted. However, instead of wedding preparations, she spends her days at the railway station, wistfully watching Moscow trains arrive and waiting for someone else.

Year: 2013Genre: melodramaDirector: Valery DevyatilovHD


Year: 2012Genre: melodramaDirector: Artyom NasybulinHD

Year: 2012Genre: melodramaDirector: Yulia KrasnovaHD

UNLOVEDAnya, a recent graduate of a metropolitan medical college, has to come back to her native town to take care of her family: her alcoholic father and little brother Vanya. The young woman is unwary of the serious changes that are in store for her at home. Once the girl arrives, rumor is spread in town about the love affair between her late mother and Sergey, the chief physician of a local clinic. Anya is kept in the dark about the results of a secretly taken DNA test of her younger brother. Sergey and his son, a doctor called Mikhail, make up a sophisticated adoption plan – and the unsuspecting Anya has to play the lead role in it.

MY BELOVED GENIUSNadya, a kind and unsophisticated girl, lives in a small town and works as a sales assistant. Her entire life is focused on her beloved Vlad, an excel-lent student of physics. The young man is obsessed by ambitious dreams and raves about becoming a great scientist, and is convinced that he is a genius. When Vlad sets off for Moscow in search of happiness, Nadya follows him to lend her support. Soon she starts to understand that her boyfriend is more dreadful than talented and is a man, who will stop at nothing to achieve his goal.

BONFIRE ON THE SNOWNastya, a kind and naive girl returns to her home village after boarding school. Her family lives in poverty, but Nastya is not afraid of difficulties. She is an excellent house painter and as such there will always be work for her to do. She son realises that she is not welcome at home; her alcoholic stepfather is annoyed at this new resident, and her mother has become alienated from her. Unexpectedly enough, she has a run of good luck: the governor’s son Pavel comes to the village for a song contest and falls for Nastya, and they start seeing each other, but when Nastya discov-ers she is pregnant, it turns out that Pavel has quite different plans for his life..

Year: 2012Genre: melodramaDirector: Sergey KrasnovHD


Year: 2012Genre: melodramaDirector: Igor MuzhzhukhinHD

Year: 2012Genre: melodramaDirector: Victoria DerzhitskayaSD

CORNFLOWERSOlya, an unsophisticated country girl, suffers from unrequited love for the good-looking local hero Vasya. For the sake of her love, Olya rejects the college of music that has been her lifelong dream, and enters agricultural college. Coincidentally, Olya spends a few happy hours together with her beloved. However, the outcome is too hard to bear: Vasya drops out of school and, without saying goodbye to Olya, goes off to do his military service, and she soon realises that she is pregnant.

ANDREIKAMasha and Andreika are bosom friends. In fact Andreika is head over heels in love with Masha, but she is waiting for her Prince Charming. One day Masha meets Dima, a handsome guy, but her dreams turn into a night-mare. Dima turns out to be a rapist and a rascal. A few weeks after Dima raped her, Masha realizes that she is pregnant. Faithful Andreika decides to take revenge on this scoundrel, and in a fight, he accidentally beats Dima to death and is imprisoned...

‘WERE OUR TSAR TO MARRY ME… ’ Based on a novel of the same name by Vera Klochkova. After their moth-er died, the eldest sister Tamara was granted custody of her younger sisters. Tamara spent her young years taking care of the sisters and never married. The girls grew up. On the anniversary of their mother’s death, the sisters would gather and remember a wishing game they used to play as children. It started with the line from a Russian poem, ‘Were our tsar to marry me...’ When little, the sisters dreamed of princes and candy; now Tamara wants a house of her own, Vika hopes to marry an oligarch, and the quiet and modest Sonya cannot think up a wish, just like years before. However, fate has a special surprise in store for each of them.

Year: 2011Genre: melodramaDirector: Sergey AlyoshechkinSD


WINTER TANGOYulya is young and beautiful... and completely lost in life. Day after day she plays the same song on her accordion in a restaurant, and at night goes back to her empty rented apartment that she is sick and tired of. Over and over again, she turns on the heartbreaking tango , an echo of someone else’s love. One day she meets Edik, the owner of an elite marriage agency. The practical-minded businessman at once recognizes a ‘spark’ in the ‘accordion girl’ and offers her a job in Yalta. Tired of her everyday routine and the endless winter, Yulya agrees to go to ‘where summer never ends’. However, subsequent events do not follow Edik’s plan. Instead of choosing the ‘pre¬selected’ Lida as his bride- to-be, the Greek oligarch falls for the beautiful accordion girl and decides to marry her. Without further ado, Edik and his partner ‘sell’ Yulya to the ‘groom’ behind her back. Caught in a situation without any chance of escape, support or documents, she is forced to run for her life. Hiding from her pursuers, she climbs over a fence that is in her way and finds herself in a strange house. Its owner wears demonic masks, hides from the eyes of mirrors and is rumoured to ‘bury the girls that he kills with his own hands in a secret room’.

KEYS TO HAPPINESSYoung Tanya lives with her alcoholic mother and quiet, intimidated father in a village. She is eager to get away from this confined life. She dreams of being the happy wife of a well-off man from a big city. This beautiful girl rejects all her local suitors and waits for her Prince Charming. At last he arrives,-a rich and handsome businessman called Victor. He takes Tanya away to the city, but the happiness of this country girl vanishes only too fast , as she is trapped in a golden cage. The only thing Victor wanted was that a young healthy country girl should have his heir. As soon as Tanya gives birth to a boy, her husband kicks her out and takes her son away.

Year: 2011Genre: melodramaDirector: Vladimir YanoshchukSD

Year: 2008Genre: melodramaDirector: Roman ProsvirninSD

TV FILMS90 minutes

T V F i l m s 90 Minutes

Years: 2013-2015Genre: melodramaDirector: Olga Dobrova-KulikovaHD

IDEAL COUPLEZoya is an athlete whose male nature makes it difficult for men to deal with her, and so they leave her. However, she dreams of getting married and having children. Kesha is a bachelor who lives with his parents. who are eager to have grandchildren. One day Kesha goes away from home and is disposed to propose marriage to the first woman he meets. Zoya turns out to be this very woman. and she decides to make an ideal husband of Kesha. He suggests that they exchange their roles: she is the boss one day and the next day it is his turn. Suddenly Kesha finds a woman of his dreams who understands him so well. Zoya meets a great guy too. However it soon turns out that they will not get away with these «changes»...

EVERY BARBER KNOWS THAT Nyuta is a true Russian woman. She is a saleswoman in a village shop. Nyuta runs the household and takes care of children. Her husband Se-men and her brother place everything in her hands. Once she has bad luck: the shop is robbed after her shift and the owner imposes a large debt on her for what was stolen. Afraid of difficulties, her husband runs away. Will Nyuta be strong enough to cope with these troubles and find a way out? May be someone will give her a hand, someone who yesterday still seemed to be a stranger.

SHARDS OF A GLASS SLIPPER Yula is a practice nurse who comes to Moscow with a small suitcase, wearing an old overcoat. Her aunt Valya helps her niece to find a job as a live-in nurse, taking care of a well-to-do and capricious old woman who suffered a stroke. Her name is Alla Nikolaevna and she adores Yula. Alla Nikolaevna’s son Pavel is almost in love with the young girl. Only Pavel’s wife Lena does not trust “this good angel”. And she seems to be right...

Year: 2015Genre: melodramaDirector: Roman ProsvirninHD

Year: 2015Genre: melodramaDirector: Stanislav MitinHD

T V F i l m s 90 minutes

IN THE NAME OF LOVENastya meets the man of her dream. His name is Andrei. but her cun-ning friend Svetlana seduces Andrei and breaks Nastya’s heart. One day a tragic accident makes Andrei open his eyes. He understands that he lost a treasure and that a real monster is hiding under the guise of a «good wife».

OTHER PEOPLE’S CHILDRENSuccessful businessman Sergey leaves his wife Lena and daughter Asya for his new darling Natasha. Asya suffers a lot due to her parents’ divorce, which results in health problems that she conceals. Natasha gives birth to a daughter Katya and Sergey is happy and barely recalls his previous family. At some point, Asya’s health deteriorates critically, and she is hospitalised with suspected leukaemia....

A MOTH TANGOOnly yesterday Anya was a happy wife, waiting to give birth to her child, but the family idyll turned out to be false and vanished in an instant. Her husband leaves her for another woman, and this betrayal only marks the start of a run of bad luck. More pain is yet to come when she looses her child, while other hardships are in store for her. New neighbours try hard to drive her out of the communal apartment and get her room. Anya’s life turns into a hell and it seems that the whole world is against her...Will she manage to find someone to protect her and finally banish the nightmare of a moth, burning in the flames?...


Year: 2015Genre: melodramaDirector: Yury LeyzerovHD

Year: 2015Genre: melodramaDirector: Igor MuzhzhukhinHD


INNUENDO SYNDROMEAnton and Yulia are planning to get married and organize a dinner to introduce their respective parents to each other. All of a sudden it turns out that Larisa, Anton’s mother, and Vladimir, Yulia’s father, knew each other in their youth. Moreover, Larisa, a modest and inconspicuous woman, was in love with Vladimir, a well-off and arrogant man, and ini-tiated their intimacy... Now Vladimir is a successful businessman, taking care of his beloved daughter Yulia and a crippled wife. An active, strong man, he is attracted to the lovely and charming Larisa, who re-entered his life so unexpectedly...

LOVE WITHOUT BEAUTYAll her life, Lyuba, an unattractive young woman, has lived in a never-ending misery. She is lonely, and people in small town make fun of her, while her mother is trying to married her off to a rich old man and get rid of her as quickly as possible. Most probably, the life of an «ugly duckling» would have come to a sad end, had her desperation not made her pull off an absolutely crazy scam that turned life in her small town upside down. She robs a bank and escapes with the first guy in the town, promising him a million for just one night together...

PART-TIME WIFENina, a young widow and the mother of two young children, gets a job as a housekeeper in the country house of Anna, an energetic business-woman.Anna’s son, Igor, decides to get himself called up for military service. To prevent him from doing sot, Anna forces him into a fictitious marriage with Nina. In the beginning of their marriage the newlyweds hate each other, but one day everything changes...

Year: 2015Genre: melodramaDirector: Sergey LyalinHD

Year: 2015Genre: melodramaDirector: Kira AngelinaHD

Year: 2014Genre: melodramaDirector: Andrey ZapisovHD


SNOWSTORMOn New Year’s Eve, Masha, a student, is preparing to go to Moscow to meet her fiancé Sergey. Meanwhile Sergey is on a train, taking him and his parents to meet Masha. By chance Sergey’s railway carriage becomes abandoned on a siding at a halt close to the village where Masha is staying with her father. Outside a snowstorm is raging. Thanks to a fortunate coincidence Masha and Sergey meet, but they suddenly discover that there is a long-standing family secret, binding their fathers....

SURPRISE FOR A SWEETHEARTHer husband’s infidelity ruins Yulia’s happy family life. Soon after their break-up, Yulia meets the successful businessman Nikolay, who helps her believe in herself again. She changes everything in her life. and becomes a self-confident, well-groomed woman, but she still loves her husband, the man she left...

HALF MY KINGDOMFOR YOUR LOVECristina is a student at a British university and comes home for the holidays. Her father is a successful businessman and her mother died a long time before. He introduces Cristina to his new sweetheart, and being a naughty, spoilt, girl of lavish habits, Cristina does not want to accept her. A friend advises her father to use an unusual form of re-education. Cristina has to earn her own living and enter the world of work. Selling vegetables in a shop, sleeping in a camp bed, and communicating with ordinary people. Exhausted and hungry. an ordinary guy called Kolyan chooses her.

Year: 2014Genre: romance, fairy taleDirector: Roman ProsvirninHD




MEN DON’T BRING HAPPINESSDiana leads an unhappy life: endless family quarrels, a lack of money, and the monotonous routine of student life. However, one day a miracle happens and she meets Him, the hero of her dreams. Sergey is hand-some and the young girl loses her head, but her unexpected happiness suddenly ends. Diana finds her sweetheart in the arms of her best friend on the eve of their wedding. She despairs and does not know what to do. At this crucial moment Sergey’s mother Elena helps her. She is a successful, independent business woman. Following her instructions, our young heroine decides to give up her former naive dreams and become a calculating bitch, reaching her goals and crushing all obstacles in her path.

WHERE LOVE GOES Harmony and well-being reign in the life of Natalia who works as a school teacher and is happily remarried to Stas, while. Vanya, her son from her first marriage, is a college student. However, this happy façade conceals secrets that cannot remain hidden forever. One day Natalia discovers that her husband is living a double life and is seeing another woman behind her back. Natalia is shocked at his betrayal, but the ultimate truth makes her shudder: Stas’ mistress is none other than her son Vanya’s fiancee.

OUT-OF-TOWNERLarissa is a strong woman who is used to tackling problems of the heart by herself. She is the single mom of a troublesome adolescent son. and works hard to provide for the family, and has abandoned any hope of a love life. Larissa’s neighbour, who wants to get hold of her house, introduces her to her nephew Oleg, a dull martinet. Tired of her endless solitude, Larissa tries to establish a relationship with him, but the plot is soon revealed. Unexpectedly, Larissa witnesses the police detain a man in the street who had no documents on him. She likes this man and helps regain his freedom by paying his fine. A few days later the man arrives at her place, but instead of paying her back, he asks if he can stay the night. This angers her and she sends him away. However, what happens next makes her completely change her mind about this man, who appeared in her life in such an unusual way.





TIME TO GATHER Eugenia works as a school PT teacher and the single mom of an ado-lescent daughter Masha. She dotes on children, works like a dog and tries to spur her unenthusiastic colleagues to follow a healthy lifestyle. Teachers make fun of their dynamic colleague, while the students call her ‘loony’. A high school student, Masha longs for ‘the good life’ and disapproves of her disinterested mother. One day the millionaire Alexey ‘the owner of everything’ comes to town. In her younger days, Eugenia used to date him and he was her first love.

I WILL NEVER FORGET YOUVera is an oligarch’s wife, an ill-tempered lady with a nickname that means gloomy and taciturn. The one who suffers the most from her evil temper is her driver Sergei, a widower with two kids who is secretly in love with his capricious boss. His love could have remained secret, had not fate played a nasty trick on her. Vera’s husband tried to kill her and she lost her memory completely in a car crash. When she came to, she found herself married to Sergei, a model housewife and a primary school teacher who loves her ‘husband’ and his two charming kids.

FOURTH PASSENGERUlyana is a schoolteacher that looks like a Soviet film character; she is independent, principled and single; although good-looking. Ulyana is divorced; her son is a student and does not need her care, so the only thing in her life is routine work. It could have stayed that way were it not for a blessing in disguise. Dealing with her son’s problems, Ulyana goes to Moscow and on the way meets the rich businessman Vladimir. Afraid of scaring away this disinterested woman, Vladimir introduces himself as a mere construction worker, but soon learns that Ulyana hates liars even more than she hates rich people.

Year: 2013Genre: melodramaDirector: Vladimir UstyugovHD

Year: 2013Genre: melodramaDirector: Rano KubayevaHD

Year: 2013Genre: melodramaDirector: Igor RomashchenkoHD


WHERE I FIND MY HAPPINESSNadya Stepantsova, a responsible business director, works from morn-ing till night and is the breadwinner in the family. She has long forgotten what family happiness is. Her husband Sergey does not care for her and is always exchanging messages with someone on his mobile. Her ado-lescent daughter Nastya tries to avoid contact with her mother. On her birthday Nadya realizes how much her family have become alienated from one another, and decides to bring them back together. She takes her husband and daughter to their country house, but gets in a terrible car crash on the way. When she comes to after a coma, she is told that her husband and daughter are dead, and that now she has to learn how to go on.

THE NECKLACEMarina, a beautiful and talented professor’s daughter, languishes in misery. After her father died, she put her mind to helping her married lover Yury get a promotion. Once he became the dean, Yury wanted to avoid gossip and kept Marina on as a laboratory assistant. For years Marina’s life consists of hollow promises that her lover keeps giving her. She waits for him to leave his wife; she waits for an interesting job. However, this is all in vain, and life passes her by. When Marina loses all hope, a miracle happens: her old friend Lika, like a fairy godmother, gives her a beautiful dress and a stunning necklace, and sends her to a class reunion. However, this fairy tale ends abruptly when the priceless necklace is stolen, and Marina’s life turns into a nightmare.

A LUCKY GIRL Irina Boyarova is an Olympic gold medal runner. She has no family or friends and her all life revolves around sport. She goes to a resort and starts dating a doctor named Dima. They both realize that they have deep feelings for each other, but coincidentally, they part without saying goodbye. Soon Irina discovers that she is pregnant. She visits Dima to break the news, but but her high hopes are soon dashed.

Year: 2013Genre: melodramaDirector: Rauf KubayevHD




A WALTZ FOR THE BOSSNadezhda Petrovna is a big boss, a successful martial arts fighter, and an absolutely unhappy woman. Her grown-up son has a life of his own and does not need her care, her ex-husband is an alcoholic who sponges on her, and her colleagues call her butch. This story could have had a sad ending, but one day Nadezhda Petrovna realises she cannot stand it any longer and decides to change her life completely. For a start, she signs up for ballroom dancing lessons.

THE SHORES OF LOVEVera is a lively country girl, hard-working and responsible, a superwoman type. She is a buoy keeper, a huntress, a bee keeper and a permanent peace officer. Vera succeeds at everything she does except her private life. After she caught her husband cheating on her, she sent him packing and was left alone with her daughters. It seems that nothing new will happen in her life, but one day a big city doctor comes to her village. He sees at once that Vera is no dragon lady but a stunning woman.

EXCHANGE YOUR RINGS Arina is experiencing a run of bad luck. Her father passed her over in favour of his young mistress and left his family penniless. Her mother is threatened by her ex-boss who demands a huge sum of money from her. She works like a dog, but on her modest salary as a courier she cannot pay off this debt. In despair, Arina abandons her dreams and is determined to save the family by trading on her beauty.





THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF MAJOR BARANOVMajor Baranov, highly qualified but ill-tempered, is discharged for excessive zeal, and has to work odd jobs. Unexpectedly, he is offered a role in the exposure of a dangerous criminal who has escaped from prison. The case turns out to have a lot of pitfalls: the major has to go to a small town, get a job as a nursery teacher, and worst of all, undertake his investigation under the command of a woman boss.

FOREST LAKE A large forest lake is the borderline between two worlds. A small village is located on the one side, and a resort and modern cottages on the other. The two worlds have to meet on very different occasions. Tonya and her husband Nikolai are typical villagers. She works in a bakery, while he has to take odd jobs at construction sites and private stables. Once the spouses have a fight, and Nikolai leaves her for the Moscow beauty Alina who is building her villa on the other lakeside. For a despairing Tonya it does not take long either and she accidentally runs into a man at the lake, who proves to be the owner of the stables, and this meeting changes their lives forever.


Year: 2011Genre: melodramaDirector: Stanislav MareevSD

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