Today’s selection proves that Russian cinema is capable of surprising.
Although many are skeptical about domestic films, there are always gems to be found among them. We have collected the best new products from different genres: from comedy to drama and action films.
This is a clear confirmation that Russian filmmakers know how to create high-quality and memorable films. Enjoy watching!
1. The Master and Margarita
Genre: drama, fantasy, melodrama
Audience rating: ⭐️ 7.8 (KinoPoisk)
Country Russia
Director: Mikhail Lokshin
Cast: August Diehl, Yulia Snigir, Evgeny Tsyganov, Claes Bang, Yuri Kolokolnikov.
About what: Interpretation of the cult novel by Mikhail Bulgakov.
Moscow, 1930s. A popular playwright acts anti-Soviet: the performance of his plays is canceled, and he himself is expelled from the mix of writers.
At not the best moment of his life, he meets the beautiful Margarita, deeply unhappy in her marriage, and starts a new romance, with heroes who become people from his circle, including the mystical character Woland, written with a foreigner he knows.
Where to see: Okko
On topic: I watched the new film “The Master and Margarita” (2024) in the cinema. What was this all about, what does the book have to do with it?
2. Frau
Genre: drama, comedy
Audience rating: ⭐️ 7.2 (KinoPoisk)
Country Russia
Director: Lyubov Mulmenko
Starring: Vadik Korolev, Lisa Yankovskaya, Inga Oboldina, Lyudmila Chirkova.
About what: Vanya is a young man with oddities. He works at the Hunter and Fisherman store, lives in an old-fashioned granny apartment and calls all women “Frau.”
Everything changes when he meets Christina, a ballerina of the Perm Opera and Ballet Theater, and begins to court her in his original manner. The Tale of Lost Millennia with Lisa Yankovskaya.
Where to see: KinoPoisk, Okko
3. Commander
Genre: drama, action
Audience rating: ⭐️ 7.8 (KinoPoisk)
Country Russia
Director: Alexander Guryanov, Timur Khvan
Cast: Kirill Zaitsev, Alexander Zhukov, Nikita Bureev, Artyom Tkachenko, Valery Barinov
About what: Gennady Zaitsev is an ordinary teenager in a remote Ural village. He grew up in a large family without a father, but managed to overcome the difficulties of his wartime childhood and post-war devastation, and became the founder of the anti-terrorist unit Alpha Group.
On December 1, 1988, in the city of Ordzhonikidze (now Vladikavkaz), terrorists take hostage 32 children, a teacher and a driver. Under the leadership of Zaitsev, a complex operation is taking place, as a result of which all the hostages were freed, and the terrorists became radicals.
Where to see: KinoPoisk, Okko
4. Air
Genre: military, drama, action, history
Audience rating: ⭐️ 6.8 (KinoPoisk)
Country Russia
Director: Alexey German Jr.
Starring: Anastasia Talyzina, Aglaya Tarasova, Kristina Lapshina, Sergei Bezrukov, Elena Lyadova
About what: The Great Patriotic War. There are heavy battles in the USSR, the German army is advancing. A unit of female pilots arrives in a mixed aviation regiment. All of them are young, unexploded and at first do not quite understand what war is.
The girls have to work in a difficult man’s world, but day after day, in a series of air battles, they prove that they are no worse than men.
Where to see: KinoPoisk
5. Trigger. Movie
Genre: drama
Audience rating: ⭐️ 6.0 (KinoPoisk)
Country Russia
Director: Alexandra Remizova
Cast: Maxim Matveev, Irina Starshenbaum, Victoria Maslova, Irina Martsinkevich, Anatoly Rudenko
About what: After such events in history – his ex-wife is convicted of murder, the father of the drama is incurable, his beloved has left – Artyom Streletsky decides to start all over again: he moves to the sea, where he was happy as a child, as a result he works as a bartender and meets Maya, also the second psychologist.
She will help Streletsky look at himself from a different perspective and work through his own triggers.
Where to see: KinoPoisk
6. Hockey dads
Genre: sports, family
Audience rating: ⭐️ 8.3 (KinoPoisk)
Country Russia
Director: Andrey Bulatov
Starring: Alexey Bardukov, Anya Chipovskaya, Mikhail Porechenkov, Yuri Chursin, Alexey Kravchenko
About what: Andrey is the coach of a children’s hockey team in a small provincial town. The hero reports a measured life that the only ice palace in the city, where he can allow children to take a walk, is demolished. The only way to defeat him is in an amateur hockey tournament.
Andrey has only a few months to assemble a team and prepare it for the games. Fathers of little hockey players decide to take to the ice themselves and fight for the future of their children.
Where to see: KinoPoisk
7. Abnormal
Genre: drama
Audience rating: ⭐️ 7.7 (KinoPoisk)
Country Russia
Director: Ilya Malanin
Starring: Alexander Yatsenko, Natalya Kudryashova, Elisey Svezhentsev, Illarion Marov.
About what:
8-year-old Kolya is not like everyone else. The boy’s mother, Tatyana, no longer believes that a congenital disease occurs and that the child will one day become “normal.” But her new acquaintance Yuri is determined to put Kolya on his feet with the help of his unique gymnastics system.
And when during classes it accidentally turns out that the boy has a talent for music, learning to play the piano still becomes one of the stages on the path to recovery.
Ahead of Kolya is a prestigious piano competition in China, a first date and a large distance, which helps him with the healing power of music and fatherly love.
Where to see: Okko
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Source: Iphones RU
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