Vlad Konoplyov

Adventures in a fantasy world: Gorshok and Knyaz save the Princess from the clutches of the evil Sorcerer.

Is youth a burden or a gift? New stars of Russian cinema say goodbye to illusions

The unifying beginning of all the stories are their characters — they are all teenagers just entering adulthood. The theme of socio-psychological adaptation in the big world, the search for oneself and the difficulties of communication runs through all the films. These young people are ready to desperately run on thin ice, look for their favorite toy in a huge city dump, run away from their parents in their van, build a model of a dream house day after day, sit for hours in the pouring rain. In short, they are all learning to live.

A fantasy drama infused with music and horror fables based on the real story of the 'King and Jester', a cult Russian punk-rock band, enormously popular in the 1990-2000s. The show goes along the band's rocky road to success and tells the story of its polarizing-natured frontman Michael Gorshenev and his tragic death in 2013. Tricksters, evil spirits, noblemen, and other characters of the 'King and Jester' song verse make their way into the lives of Gorshenev and his bandmates.

Denis is suddenly abandoned by a girl. He decides on an adventure and opens an escort agency with his friend Nikita to earn money and "buy" Nastya's love. Suddenly, things are going uphill, and the guys are getting more and more involved in business. And along with a lot of money and new acquaintances, a series of endless problems breaks into their lives.

Four bandits in the late nineties come to knock money out of the debtor, but accidentally fall into the cryocamera and end up in 2022. Phil, Chuck, Whizz and Massa do not immediately realize that during this time Moscow has radically changed, their lifestyle has become very outdated, and people around have a lot of unfamiliar devices and strange habits. The worst thing is that their loved ones have grown older, and now someone will have to rebuild their relationship with their son, who has become his age, and someone will have to win the heart of an already much older girlfriend. Now the four friends must find themselves in a new incomprehensible world and take revenge on their former boss, who sent them to the cryocamera.

Sasha, 30, is a serial loser trying his best to become a successful business coach. Fate leads him to billionaire Oleg Kalugin, who decides to hire a cheerful dreamer as a coach. However, Kalugin does not need business advice, in which the guy knows nothing, but the secret of his ability to sincerely enjoy life despite poverty and other problems. From this moment on, drastic changes begin in Sasha's life, which show the real price of success. Step by step, he is moving further away from happiness, plunging into a world of deception, betrayal, hatred and really big, but dirty money.