Inna Churikova

Strange Russian fairy tale dealing with a boy and a girl who go through the strangest situations to be with one another... (imdb)

The story of a teenager boy in times of the comunism fall in the Soviet Union. (imdb)

Two parents put their child in his crib for the night and leave the room. The child starts crying, and the Cat comes into the room to keep him company. The child grabs her tail, and the Cat angrily reminds him that they agreed a thousand years ago that he would not do that. Upon seeing that the child doesn't remember, the Cat sighs and decides to tell him the story from the beginning. The story starts when the planet was young and life on Earth is starting with dinosaurs. (Wikipedia)

A comedy about a successful entrepreneur and her jealous neighbors. (imdb)

The film relays the story of the baron's life after the adventures portrayed in the book, particularly his struggle to prove himself sane. In the movie, baron Munchausen is portrayed as multi-dimensional, colorful, non-conformist man living in a gray, plain, dull and conformist society that ultimately tries to destroy him. (Wikipedia)

Revolves around the post-war meeting reunion a front-line officer, now happily married, and a woman street vendor, which reawakens in them submerged feelings of gratitude and tenderness as the officer recalls how they met during the war and what she used to mean to him. (imdb)

The thrilling drama based on the world's greatest masterpiece by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Half-sane Prince Myshkin returns from Swiss psycho-clinic to face the glamorous world of St Petersburg. Here vice, money and extortion rule. Myshkin finds himself in the whirlpool of intrigue. He inherits an enormous fortune, acquires affections of the vicious Nastassya Filippovna and the beautiful young Aglaya. Scandal, murder and incredible love affair follow. (imdb)

A film-in-film story set in a provincial town in Russia. Pasha (Churikova) is an amateur actress who plays a witch at a local club, but her dream is to play Joan of Arc. In a strike of luck she is cast as Joan of Arc in a big screen film. Now she is torn between her luck and her love to Arkadi (Kuravlev) who is a married man. (imdb)

A self-pitying but popular playwright drives to Vladimir to relax with a doting female student and another writer. (imdb)

Director and writer Gleb Panfilov adapted Maxim Gorky's play Vassa Zheleznova for this theatrical film that recounts Vassa's iron rule over a dissipated merchant family several years before the 1917 revolution. (allmovie.com)

The film takes place between 1894 and 1902. By relating certain pages of Russian History, it throws light on today's events and reveals the profoundness of Gorky's tragic and contradictory work. (festival-cannes.fr)

The final part of Mikhalkov's trilogy about Divisional Commander Kotov finds him returning home during World War II having been betrayed, narrowly escaped execution for treason and nearly reduced to dust in a prison camp. Only to discover that everything has changed and he will have to fight again for his name, for his honor, and for his love. (imdb)

Dan'ka's (Daniel) and Ksanka's (Oksana) childhood in the village has been brutally ended when their father was killed by the White Guard officer in front of their eyes... (imdb)

When Yelizaveta Uvarova becomes a mayor of a small town, she puts her heart and soul into building a bridge there. Yet soon politics will have to make way for her family life as her son suddenly dies. (imdb)

A talented girl is trying to find happiness amidst the Russian revolution of 1917 and the civil war that split the nation. (imdb)

Young Caliph is bored and wishes to turn into a stork. A magic powder gives him an ability to become any bird or insect or any other animal. But as an animal he must not laugh, otherwise he will forget the magic word which allows him to transform. Yet, once, being a stork, he breaks the rule. He has to find the evil sorcerer, the master of the powder, to become human again. During his search he meets a girl the old man turned into a salamander... (kinoglaz.fr)

Former criminal Sergei meets Vera - an elderly unhappy woman who lives in a dormitory. After Sergei commits another crime, they run together and along the way they accidentally get into a zone contaminated by radiation. Sergei decides to stay there, but Vera does not leave him. At that moment three looters come to the territory. (wikipedia.org)

The Russian crook steals the stolen giant diamond from the mafia, hides it and suddenly runs into his unbeknown brothers. The unexpected and absurd events with participation of mob, doctors, musicians, Americans, militia and gypsies ensue.

New Year in Russian - controlled and ruthless element. While residents preparing for a major national holiday, Lenka Shabadinova works at kiosk till midnight. She does not even know that New Year's Eve has prepared a crazy scenario for her. (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.