Grigory Kalinin

Eight short stories about love in Kyiv.

The first Russian emo-movie, Closed Spaces is a story about the newest generation of Russians. Having grown up in Russia's crazy 1990s, an era filled with constant and drastic change, these teenagers have no solid ground beneath their feet. They are trapped in a strange world in which their money-obsessed parents lead senseless lives and even kill each other. Vika is twenty years old. She has black fingernail polish, wears pink dresses, and is constantly depressed. While working at a pizza place, she gets an order for a pizza delivery from Venya, a strange twenty year old boy who lives all alone in a deserted apartment in the middle of Moscow. Venya suffers from agarophobia, the fear of open space. When Vika arrives Venya lets her in and locks the door behind her.

Юная Настя приводит домой репетитора. Но её маму не радует желание дочки учиться. Подозрительная женщина усматривает в отношениях девочки и преподавателя подоплёку: Настя воспитывалась без отца и теперь влюбилась в маминого ровесника: образованного, импозантного мужчину. Мать любой ценой готова разорвать постыдные отношения: она не брезгует ни скандалами, ни шантажом, ни истериками. Но если бы она знала, какие у дочери от неё секреты...

After the death of his parents, teenager Max discovers in himself an unusual ability to move into other people, penetrating into their minds. The viewer gets acquainted with the grown-up hero, behind whom there are already several journeys into the depths of the human mind, and one of them, the most pleasant for Max, is connected with the beautiful artist Vera. With her help, Max comprehends the true beauty of nature and the harmonious integrity of the world, and also shares his own unique knowledge with the girl. Together, the heroes have to go through a fascinating path, the routes of which lie far beyond the usual perception of reality.

Матерый вампир граф Дарлак возвращается в свой замок после столетнего отсутствия. У него прекрасный аппетит, и вскоре начинают пропадать и умирать люди. И только слуга графа, человек по имени Адам, остается жив и здоров. Хотя единственное его желание... самому стать вампиром. Адам - жертва кораблекрушения. В свое время граф подобрал его на берегу моря, вылечил и сделал его своим "дневным представителем". Адам - послушное орудие в руках зла, но любое орудие однажды может выйти из-под контроля.

Действие фильма происходит сразу после Великой Отечественной войны на территории Чехии. Германия капитулировала, но в тылах Советской Армии еще продолжают сопротивляться разрозненные фашистские отряды. Командиру разведроты старшему лейтенанту Воронкову приказано обезвредить одну из таких немецких групп. Собственных сил не хватает, поэтому Воронков обращается к соседям — казачьему соединению. Задание поначалу кажется несложным. Но рядовая погоня превращается в смертельную схватку…

Romantic comedy

Summer, 1942. A young Russian communications officer sentenced to death flees execution and becomes brothers-in-arms with his guard against the Germans.

After a chance meeting with a girl, a nameless boy becomes her lover and guardian angel. Together they avenge the girl’s rape, fleeing into the woods in an attempt to escape the modern world and civilization. They commit more crimes, killing encountered people at random, until the third character comes into the story, changing the dynamic of the lovers’ relationship. It’s an emotional story of passion, violence and the impossibility of running away from oneself.

A genuine satiric comedy, based on real conversations - both amusing and sad - overheard by a journalist in one of the most expensive Moscow restaurants. Hilarious and revealing, this is a film about women who choose between affection and money, film producers that don't really know what they're filming, and weary businessmen who sometimes say screw it, down a shot and leave their mother-in-laws to pay the bill. But most of all, it's about true love that favors noisy kitchen floor over gilded fine-dining halls.

An influential banker is doing everything possible not to share the property with his illegitimate sons. But when he is deprived of all the money, it turns out that only they can help Matthew ... To regain his fortune, the billionaire will be forced to rob his own bank in Monte Carlo. And for this, he will have to perform an even more difficult task: regain the trust of children who grew up without a father ...

The creator of the best virtual reality games is convinced that in reality everyone and everything is controlled, but a chance meeting with a young activist opens his eyes to the fact that the world is much wider and more complicated than anything that he knows and understands about it.

Polina, an average-looking girl with an average life, wakes up one morning to find that she has become a beautiful woman, a hot babe. Is this real, or just her imagination?

It is one day in the life of two friends Moscovites. Their Moscow has got a real sea, the southern sun and home-made wine.

During the Victory day celebration, the heroes realize that the themed military party has been replaced by the reality of the fascist rear. Five guys, known to the audience from the first part of the film, find themselves in a German beer hall. In the confusion of the battle, they manage to escape, but in the confusion, "aliens from the 21st century" accidentally injure a red army soldier named Kantaria. Friends understand that if he does not survive, the course of history will change — who will plant the flag on the Reichstag? Now their task is to get to their own, not to let the future war hero die and, of course, go back to their time…

A shy guy, due to problems in communicating with girls, invents an android robot and goes with him to a reunion.

A few hours before the holiday, everyone with bated breath hopes for a miracle. The whole village of Glukharevo is preparing to welcome a foreign movie star in a big way. In Tyumen, a housewife and a future blogger need to win a bet with her husband. In Yekaterinburg, a roleplayer in love is torn between family happiness and epic adventures. In St. Petersburg, the girl, along with the long-awaited marriage proposal, finds out that her fiancé was a fraudster. As always, the fates of the heroes will unexpectedly intertwine and everyone will get their own piece of New Year's magic...

A detachment of young fighters of the Russian Army breaks away from the main formation during a march, in order to shorten the path, runs across, but gets into a fog that takes him back to the past, during the Great Patriotic War. The guys who saw the war only in the movies fall into the clutches of the ruthless events of that time. Everything is on the edge: bravery, fear, love, hate, life, death. And there's no time to ask questions. Live, fight for the Motherland – it is one for all time.

Four girls and four guys are planted on an uninhabited tropical island for filming a reality show. Their task is by taking organizers' challengers to fight for the love of the audience: at the end of the winner is waiting for a big cash prize. But after the accident happens on the yacht with the film crew, everything will change radically. Heroes come into play without even realizing that no one is shooting them - they are participants of the show, which is not really there. But they will not know about it right away ... Their life on the island and attempts to return home will lead to a lot of funny adventures and romantic stories.

In order to bring down the shares of the TV channel, the board of directors decides to put a gas station attendant in the CEO's chair and entrust him with the filming of the series. In a short time, the would-be boss manages to create chaos on the air and establish his own rules in the media business. But suddenly, the series, which was supposed to be the greatest failure, begins to have a tremendous success…

The brave new world of remoteness has created a new creature, the man of the era of self-isolation, and has given rise to amazing stories that would hardly have happened under other circumstances. Entomologist Victor was given a coupon for a Thai massage session by his colleagues, but instead of pleasure, the nerd got 2 weeks of completely unexpected quarantine away from home. Opposition leader Sasha reposted information critical of domestic medicine. The post was read by his brother - an official from the capital's mayor's office - and asked to immediately demolish everything. To feed a family accustomed to daily rib-eye steaks, Swiss ice cream and sushi, traffic police inspector Kogotkov comes up with a cunning plan to remotely bribe a car enthusiast. And Dimon owes Kostyan a decent amount of money, but he is in no hurry to return it. Kostyan hires Vitya, a scoundrel, to go to Dimon and collect the debt.

Popular football player Anton Kovalev, after spending two years in prison for a drunken brawl in a cafe, is released. The offense blocked the successful career of Kovalev, who was previously the captain of the Russian national team. The reputation of a "downed pilot" does not allow him to continue his favorite business and get a prestigious job. The head of the center for difficult teenagers, Herman, who once raised Anton, offers him a place in the center to prepare difficult children for the local Olympics. Out of desperation, Kovalev agrees to the offer, but he does not even imagine how difficult it will be to find a common language with the guys, and what an important place they can take in his life.

An ordinary provincial family huddles in a small apartment with carpets on the walls. The head of the family is forced to save on everything in order to feed his wife, son and nephew. Therefore, the appearance of a "Maybach" in the next of kin is an extraordinary event. However, the righteous desire to give relatives a ride in a premium car does not end well: the car ends up in the river, and the grief-stricken family is in debt to the main city bandit, whom even the local police are afraid of.

An employee of the fire department - a manipulator and a bribe-taker - is trying to get herself a kidney for a transplant. But this is not easy to do, since she lived her life in such a way that no one wants to help her.

In the Chertanovo area, known for periodic invasions and attractions, the Prince of Darkness himself suddenly appears. He has grandiose plans, but to implement them, he needs the help of his son, a supermarket cashier, who has a lot of questions for his father from hell. The all-powerful Prince of Darkness will have to build relationships with earthly relatives in order to carry out his plans and teach humanity a lesson.

The third film of the project about Cherkasov's task force is "Goznak". Based on another famous story - the robbery of the State Bank of the Armenian SSR in 1977, when the Kalachyan brothers swept the treasury for one and a half million rubles (two million dollars at the then exchange rate). It was the largest kidnapping in the Soviet Union. 1967 year. Moscow. A fashion model from the House of Fashion was killed. A group of Major Cherkasov arrives at the crime scene. He urgently introduces his man, Sonya Timofeeva, into the Fashion House, whose main task is to obtain information about the relationship between the employees of the Fashion House. Soon, another fashion model dies. And simultaneously with this murder, a very daring crime is taking place - the robbery of Goznak ...

About what leads to sex, and what happens immediately after it. In one of the novels, a guy agrees to have a child with his best friend, unaware of her insidious plan. In another, a casual acquaintance makes a vegan wonder if sex contradicts her beliefs. And the dispute between two strangers about feminism is resolved in bed, where a woman is not going to remain in debt to a man. The heroes of the stories tell not about sex, but about what surrounds it.

Ira is a wayward 30―year-old Muscovite who does not recognize the rules and principles of modern society. Throughout the season, she easily breaks the fourth wall and openly discusses with the viewer everything that worries her. Topics for reflection and self-reflection are completely different: from mortgages and a night run to the refrigerator to cleaning an apartment and the impact of female pads on the seal population. And the seals would be fine. Ira's personal life is not all right either. She is dating hysterical screenwriter Sergei, but the explosive nature of the woman does not allow them to be together all the time, so the couple regularly quarrels.

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Artem is 35 years old. He’s a psychologist, he uses this provocative methodology successfully until one of his clients commits suicide. The one who Artem tried to heal from a suicidal mood by taking him to the roof and telling him that suicide was the right course of action. Artem is condemned to 8 years of colony, the psycholo- gist’s license is taken away, his wife Dasha (32) leaves him, his friends turn their backs on him. With the help of his best friend, Artem gets out of jail. All he is looking for is justice. He believes in his method and wants to prove that it’s actually working and the blame of the patient’s death is not on him. Each episode is a sep- arate case, Artem is brilliantly solving other people seemingly im- possible problems. But will he be able to save himself?

A journalist of a small provincial newspaper Yura has been writing unremarkable news of his hometown all his life. But suddenly an event happens to Yura that turns his whole life upside down — visions come to him that predict murders secretly and unnoticeably taking place in Rybinsk. Soon the situation is complicated by the fact that in one of the cases Yura becomes the main suspect.

Vika, the wife of a major official, is forced to follow her married husband to the small Siberian town of Tashtagol, where he is running for mayor. As a result of a family quarrel and a series of comical incidents, she loses her memory, completely forgetting who she is and where she comes from. Vika wakes up in the house of the unsociable forester Mikhail, who is raising three children alone. Taking advantage of the fact that Vika does not remember anything, the children inform her that she is their mother… At the same time, an election race starts in the city, in which the forester unexpectedly finds himself involved. He asks his new wife to help him with his image and preparations for the elections. The case takes on an even more comedic turn when the unsuspecting heroine gets involved in a political struggle against her real husband.