Evgeniy Leonov

Kin-Dza-Dza is something like an "advanced cyberpunk film". It's a lot about people and social structures which on "Plyuk" of course have many parallels to our society. It's a very funny movie, but it's also a melancholic movie with great philosophical sense. (imdb)

Andrey Pavlovich Buzykin is cheating on his wife. The lies he is telling his wife all the time are unconvincing, but he never has the courage to tell her the truth. His lover, Alla, is aware of his family life. Alla and Nina, Andrei's wife, both leave him, forgive him, and return to him at the same time, and Andrei continues with this kind of life, full of suffering and deceit. Finally, both women are so fed up with his lies that they don't believe him even when he is telling the truth... (imdb)

A kindergarten director Troshkin is a dead ringer for a criminal nicknamed "Docent" who stole the priceless headpiece of Alexander the Great during an archaeological expedition. But after militia "inputs" Troshkin into the criminal environment he has nothing left to do but to carefully play out the part of his "evil twin" (imdb)

Pilot Mimino works at small local airlines, flying helicopters between small villages. But he dreams of piloting large international aircraft, so he goes to Moscow for refresher courses. There in a hotel he meets truck driver Robik who is given a place in that hotel by mistake, and they have a lot of adventures in Moscow. (imdb)

Russian version of Winnie The Pooh

The second short in the Russian Winnie the Pooh trilogy. Here Pooh goes for a snack at Rabbit's and get's stuck in the door.

The final episode of the Russian adaptation of Winnie the Pooh. Eeyore is depressed because he lost his tail on his birthday and Pooh tries to cheer him up.

Afonya is a plumber spending the better half of his working hours in the pub. But this behavior isn't looked at lightly in Soviet Russia.

A photo studio worker unexpectedly wins 10000 rubles. His co-workers decide that he must share winnings with them.

Two students are late for the last train and trying to find a place to stay pretend being the relatives of a man living near the station.

A short animation about a little tiger who liked to sleep in a sunflower.

A kind but poor young man buys a talking snake from some sadist. The snake gives him the magic ring. That's when all of the adventures begin.

This Soviet Russian film is loosely based on Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn. Georgian director Georgi Daniela aptly brings the sometimes obscure, even surreal, Georgian sense of humor to the screen using two of his favorite actors, Vakhtang Kikabidze (as the "Duke") and Yevgeni Leonov (as the "King"). (allmovie.com)

The plot takes place in 19th century in a military hussar regiment, which spends few days in a provincial Russian town. A high profile Secret Service agent has a task to investigate if this regiment is loyal to the Tzar. The agent finds an actor who agrees to play a role of a captured rebel. Agent's plan is to test regiment's hussars ordering them to execute (shoot to death) this false rebel. Everything is staged, but hussars think it's a real execution. (imdb)

A wizard invents characters who all come to life and start to arrive at his house: a King, his servants, a princes, a bear trapped in a man's body - the usual lot. The Bear, who wishes to be a bear once again, can turn into his old self if he were to kiss a princess. It gets complicated when he falls in love with that princess, that arrived at the wizard's house. For how can they be together, if a single kiss will destroy their love? (imdb)

The heroes of the movie last seen each other on the Belorussian railway station in the summer of 1945. A quarter-century, they meet at the funeral of comrade. (themoviedb)

A zoologist and a circus judge, who can both speak to animals, meet in Moscow during respective conferences. They have a scientific dispute which ends with a bet - if he can teach a circus elephant to sing, she will eat her hat.

A grumpy village wife sends her husband to borrow some matches from their next-lake neighbor. On his way, the poor fellow meets an old drinking buddy and gets completely sidetracked, forgetting all about the task at hand in order to help his friend marry the girl of his dreams. (imdb)

Dragon, a bloody dictator, is challenged by Lancelot, who comes to save the girl, and to liberate the people. (imdb)

Drama of the social struggles on the Don during the Russian Civil War. (imdb)

A rough factory worker of a distant rural town of Russia becomes a national celebrity, when it's discovered that his mouth bears 33 teeth. He is brought to Moscow, where he discovers a new world for him.

An old fisherman tells stories about Pomors. A collection of fairy tales about the Russian North, full of folk humor and wisdom. (imdb)

A young teacher goes to a school for adults. He is younger than many of his students and some of them are starting to miss school. (imdb)

In a Soviet factory, a heated debate erupts over the fairness of bonuses, revealing the clash between idealism and reality. As workers unite and challenge the status quo, personal ambitions collide with collective struggles, redefining loyalty and justice. (plex)