These all-Russian films and TV series have captured the attention of viewers! Dramas, comedies, fantasy and biographies – each project surprises my characters and plots.
A talented chef of a fashionable restaurant, a brilliant lawyer of the 19th century, the star of the 90s Sergei Zhukov, magical currents and unexpected turns of fate – all this is confirmed: Russian cinema is at the peak of popularity.
Let’s see this weekend!
1. Chief (2024)
Genre: series, drama, comedy
Audience rating: ⭐️ 7.5 (KinoPoisk)
Country: Russia
Director: Mikhail Raskhodnikov, Evgeny Puzyrevsky
Cast: Denis Prytkov, Mikhail Bashkatov, Dmitry Kolchin, Diana Marinova, Elena Muravyova
About what: Kai is a talented and ambitious chef of a fashionable Moscow restaurant. He hopes to receive the title of the best chef in Russia and provides a high level of service and service.
One day, Kai comes into conflict with a boorish visitor, who turns out to be a high-ranking official looking for work. In desperation, Kai killed a cook in a women’s colony in the hope that eventually he could open his own restaurant and win the country’s main culinary competition.
Where to watch: Premier
2. Gobber (2024)
Genre: series, detective, drama, history
Audience rating: ⭐️ 7.5 (KinoPoisk)
Country: Russia
Director: Anna Matison
Starring: Sergei Bezrukov, Daniil Vorobyov, Igor Gordin, Ksenia Traister
About what: Moscow, second half of the 19th century. The brilliant lawyer Plevako is at the very peak of his fame. Only he can win in court in five minutes, win a dispute, or turn an obviously hopeless case in his favor.
Plevako is vain, brave and considers himself invulnerable, carelessly acquiring powerful enemies. But while he continues to shine in court, he becomes increasingly entangled in his own life. When his world begins to collapse, the infection will help him on his own.
Where to watch: Premier
3. Hands up! (2024)
Genre: music, biography
Audience rating: ⭐️ 7.6 (KinoPoisk)
Country: Russia
Director: Askar Uzabaev
Cast: Vlad Prokhorov, Ilya Rus, Sergei Zhukov, Alexey Potekhin
About what: From a provincial boy who dreams of impressing a girl with robotic love songs, Sergei Zhukov becomes one of the most sought-after artists in the country and the voice of an entire generation.
You can read our review of the film here.
https://www.iphones.ru/iNotes/posmotrel-rossiyski-bayopik-ruki-vverh
Where to watch: Okko
4. Macron (2024)
Genre: series, comedy, melodrama
Audience rating: ⭐️ 7.6 (KinoPoisk)
Country: Russia
Director: Irina Arkadyeva
Cast: Marina Alexandrova, Alexey Lukin, Olga Medynich, Mikhail Trukhin
About what: 23-year-old Andrey comes from Moscow to his small hometown in the Arkhangelsk region to introduce his girlfriend to her parents. Vika is Andrei’s boss; their office romance quietly developed into a serious relationship, despite the age difference of 20 years. Andrei has serious intentions, but this causes a strong reaction from conservative relatives – “the family now has its own Macron crop.”
Andrei’s mother uses all methods to make Vika urgently disappear from life: she dissuades her son, sets her up, gets offended, and even turns to otherworldly forces.
Where to watch: Okko
5. Witches Hammer (2024)
Genre: series,
Audience rating: ⭐️ 6.3 (KinoPoisk)
Country: Russia
Director: Evgeny Bedarev
Starring: Vadim Sosnin, Anton Batyrev, Matvey Zubalevich, Alina Voskresenskaya.
About what: The city of Kalyazin is small, picturesque, in general, like many such cities. Nothing unusual, except for a secret institute dedicated to… the study of magic. One day, the most powerful sorceress, the Mistress of the Elements, escapes from the laboratory.
Driven by hatred and the desire for revenge to complete it, she isolates the city from the outside world and begins to pay attention to the goblin and Russian inhabitants of the city, striving for a single, stable real world from people and filling it with fairy-tale creatures.
Where to watch: Okko
6. Mom is 17 again (2024)
Genre: comedy,
Audience rating: ⭐️ 7.5 (KinoPoisk)
Country: Russia
Director: Anna Kurbatova
Cast: Svetlana Khodchenkova, Konstantin Kryukov, Sergei Zharkov, Oleg Savostyuk.
About what: As a result of mysterious events, seventeen-year-old Olga from 2005 finds herself in 2024 in the body of herself, but already a thirty-six-year-old single mother. Despite the experience of adulthood, Olga behaves like a frivolous girl from the 2000s and dreams of returning to her carefree youth.
But by the will of fate, she is forced to take responsibility for her high school son and fulfill the role of school director, for which she turns out to be completely unprepared.
Where to watch: Okko
7. Love is Evil (2024)
Genre: comedy, melodrama
Audience rating: ⭐️ 7.1 (KinoPoisk)
Country: Russia
Director: Denis Gulyar, Hayk Asatryan
Cast: Nikita Kologrivy, Katerina Kovalchuk, Dmitry Vlaskin, Vladimir Sychev
About what: Charismatic burglar Maxim gets into trouble after owing money to dangerous bandits. During the next capture, he witnesses a desperate act that the returning former owner of the apartment, Eva, unexpectedly commits: she tries to burn everything that reminds her of her traitorous boyfriend, and in addition, commit suicide.
Maxim decides to stop Eva and save himself from even bigger problems.
Where to watch: Evie
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