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- During a mission in WWII, the plane of Nikolai Komlev is shot down. He manages to bring his plane down in a remote forest clearing, but far from friendly territory, he faces a relentless test of physical and mental endurance.
- Russia, May 1942. Well behind friendly lines a veteran sergeant commands a small anti-aircraft unit. His troops are inexperienced women. They will soon be tested in battle as the Germans parachute a crack squad of saboteurs into the area.
- A sex icon becomes a spy during one of the most important wars of the 20th century.
- A 19-year-old girl discovers that she has supernatural powers that allow her to see spirits. The spirits haunt her and she uses them to solve crimes that the police have not been able to solve.
- The 15th century. Sent to remote Parma by the Grand Prince of Moscow, prince Yermolay tells his son Mikhail about his dream: to create a grand princedom that would unite the peoples inhabiting these lands. Soon Yermolay is killed in the battle against the rebellious local tribes, the Voguls. His heir Mikhail finds himself in the middle of two worlds - the Grand Duchy of Moscow and the ancient lands of Perm populated by pagans. Mikhail marries a local girl, Tiche, a half woman, a half lamia - a witch, a living incarnation of the main pagan symbol Golden Woman, Sorni Nai. The legend has it that whoever owns Sorni Nai, has the full control over Parma. A talented diplomate, Mikhail finds allies among the local khans. He is able to bring a fragile peace but the news about the increasingly powerful Permian Prince reaches Moscow. The Grand Prince Ivan III decides to overpower Mikhail and his allies. He intends to turn disparate Rus into a uniform and strong state, realizing that the peoples can't repel the endless invasions of the Russian lands on their own. Mikhail has a difficult choice to make: to accept the will of Moscow or to stick with the local rulers who had helped him more than once in the past and many of whom became his loyal friends. Mikhail decides to listen to his heart and not the reason and ultimately loses the battle against the Grand Prince of Moscow and with his friends and allies ends up in captivity. In the meantime, Tiche is kidnapped by Mikhail's bitter enemy Assyka who wants to regain his control over Parma, believing that Tiche the lamia is his and his alone.
- This history of the Romanov dynasty, the family that ruled Russia from 1613 until the October Revolution of 1917.
- Vera Volina, a single mother has a 15-year-old beautiful daughter who has extreme interest for men. Mother is aware of this, so jealous of her young lover Sergey. Sergey constantly arranges cruel jokes and mocks Vera, who is already intimidated and does not believe anyone. At the school where Vera works, someone steals poisons from the educational laboratory in the chemistry classroom. On the same day, Masha was seen at school. Having read the inscription "The Third Extra" in her photo with Masha and Sergey, made by the hand of her daughter, the woman finally decides to turn to a psychotherapist.
- In order to pay off the debts of her mother, who owes a large sum to debt collection agencies, the sexually and morally restricted social worker Marusya is forced to familiarize herself with the world.
- 1944. The fighter regiment of commander Aleksandr Romanov is being transferred to Anapa to strengthen air units in the upcoming offensive on Crimea. As a result of the air battle, Aleksandr manages to capture a valuable trophy - a German fighter of a new modification. The enemy plane is sent to one of the design bureaus near Moscow, where work is underway on the new Soviet fighter Yak-9U. By a fateful coincidence, Romanov himself soon ends up in the design bureau. Working on a new machine in a team of engineers and test pilots, Romanov lives with the dream of returning to the skies. Here he meets true love, regains faith in himself and the opportunity to be at the front again, in his regiment.
- An epic family saga set in the Russian Urals before, during and after the Second World War. The story is centered on the Morozov family - Aleksey, Stepan, Aliona and Varvara - two brothers and two sisters, with a multitude of complex relationships between them. Miraculously, they all survive the slaughter of World War 2, but not without learning some important lessons on the way, including the meaning of true love, that overcomes all hurdles and heals all wounds, and how to cope with grief, leading them ultimately to a long dreamed-of happiness.
- Twelve hour-long documentary depicting World War II's major Eastern Front events/battles. Combines CGI, reenactments and archival footage to illustrate the war's history.
- Two veteran meteorologists spend their days on a remote mountain weather station, accompanied by a young boy working as a cook. Their every-day lifestyle, made of creating matchstick models on one side, researching the big-foot myth on the other, and the boy's constant need to find places for hiding is briefly interrupted by a visit from two tourists: husband and his young wife - traveling to visit a cave near the weather station, so they'd mark their five year anniversary. Their arrival is the primer for an unknown series of events that puts an experienced inspector and his young colleague where we find them at the beginning of the movie: on a deserted weather station, where everyone seems to have vanished into thin air. The hank slowly unrolls as viewer discovers the truth behind everything, step by step, until the final loop of a long story line unravels and present him the final surprise.
- After fifteen years of happy family life, Kseniya begins to suspect her husband of cheating. What begins as a fleeting thought gradually develops into an obsession, pushing the woman to conduct her own investigation. In an ever more desperate search for the truth, Kseniya goes so far that her career and relationships with all who are dear to her are jeopardized. But there is no way back.
- Tatiana Larionova is a happy wife, a loving mother and the owner of a successful family-run hotel. All is well in her life until Roman Deryabin, the owner of a large hotel chain, comes to town. He is interested in buying the land on which Tatiana's hotel is situated. Of course, Tatiana refuses to sell, but it is not long before she and her family start having big problems.
- Dina's ordinary life comes crashing down around her after her fiance's betrayal and her father's death. In her despair, she agrees to give up her unborn baby but when she realizes her mistake, it is too late. Desperate, she escapes and accidentally shoots at a woman passing by, killing her instantly. On the run, hiding from the law and full of self loathing at the killer she has become, Dina cannot give herself up as she doesn't want her baby to be born in prison and to grow up in an orphanage Fate sends her on many adventures both good and bad until destiny intervenes, bringing some normality back into her life and with it, the man of her dreams.
- An alcoholic former child actress haunted by a ghost of her most famous film character is trying to find out what happened to her during a month-long memory gap.
- A story of Irena, a woman of 37, being a mother of 2 children - a boy of 12 and a girl of 16 - who passionately falls in love with a young guy Andrey, a former secret service man, who is an absolute polarity to her weak-willed husband. As a result of dramatic twists and turns, her husband dies of heart attack, her children abandon her and she retires to a monastery as a lay sister. Andrey keeps loyalty to his love, and starts caring of Irena's children, which results in Irene taking decision to revert back to the world again.
- In October 1941, Stalin signed a secret order on the formation of women's aviation regiments. They destroyed various Nazi equipment and manpower.
- The struggle of an ordinary girl who was tragically orphaned at the age of seven. Although not responsible for her parents' death, Stesha blames herself and carries the pain and guilt with her into adulthood - She is forced to endure many ordeals: she marries a man she does not love, she is driven to abandon one son while having to take care of the other and she has to plot her escape from her own 'cage' of a loveless marriage. Finally, she has to clear her father's name by searching for a valuable religious icon, which her father was accused of stealing. Gentle, sweet and self-sacrificing, she is transformed, by the end of the film, into a strong, independent woman, capable of returning love and ready to do anything to ensure the happiness of her children.
- The Eastern Front, 1943. Two Soviet pilots, straight out of training, join a veteran fighter squadron on the front line.
- A film about the life and work of the Soviet intelligence officer Richard Sorge in Japan on the eve of and during the Second World War in Japan. Working as a correspondent for an influential German newspaper in Tokyo, he had access to the most valuable information in German diplomatic circles. His brilliant ability to communicate with people made it possible to obtain secret military information.
- Joe Sokoloff, a sergeant with the Canadian police, travels to the remote country to carry out his beloved grandmother's last wishes, but all his plans fail almost immediately on arriving in his historic homeland, when he is robbed while traveling on the train. Ready to embrace his traveling experience, he misses his train and finds himself in a small village region. Viewed by the villagers as 'an eccentric in a white Stetson', he finds himself settling into an unfamiliar world of very strange people. Here the people really do drown newly-born puppies, eat the fish they catch in the river and even smack their children. But it only takes a few days before Joe begins to understand the villagers and, after accepting them into his heart, he falls in love with Liza, a beautiful local girl. But his sincerity and openness wins him the love of an abused, previously-kidnapped girl, whose mother, not exactly understanding the Canadian's intentions, finally sees what her young daughter likes in this bumbling outsider.
- Life of Lt. Col. Aleksandra Kushnir in Gelendzhik is gradually returning to normal. It seems that the heroine have learnt how to get out of the most difficult situations and nothing can surprise her anymore. However, only one visit to the doctor one day turns everything upside down. Aleksandra's investigations, life and relationships with her relatives - nothing will be the same from now on.
- 1942, the Great Patriotic War. Returning from a mission, experienced snipers brothers Aleksey and Egor Broshins collide with the German high-class sniper Wengler. As a result of the duel, Egor dies, and Aleksey is seriously injured and ends up in the hospital. Having barely recovered, he rushes to the front, but the medical board recognizes him as unfit. Instead of returning to the front line, the command entrusts Aleksey with an unusual task - to teach young cadets sniper business. Aleksey takes hard, sometimes even cruel, to train his wards.
- 1941. Georgy Volkov, Captain of the State Security Service, is delivering to the Soviet Union a consignment of emeralds under a trade agreement between the USSR and Germany. Included in the shipment are a number of top secret documents, the value of which is far higher than any precious stones. The war begins. The train on which Volkov is travelling is attacked by a detachment of Nazis, and he has to flee. He must reach the Soviet side and deliver the important cargo intact as soon as possible. However, a dangerous enemy is hot on his heels - Abwehr agent Konrad von Bützow. The two men will be due to meet on more than one occasion, and soon. The confrontation of these two strong, highly intelligent and worthy opponents is the basis for the plot of the trilogy, "Spies Must Die!"
- Conquest and the struggle of power, victory and defeat, love and betrayal, the rise of culture and the ashes of conflagration - these are just some of the elements of the Rurik dynasty. Founded by the eponymous Varangian prince, the Rurik dynasty ruled the territory of Kievan Rus from 882, and later, several neighbouring principalities including the Grand Duchy of Moscow. Their rule continued until 1610 and the Time of Troubles, after which they were succeeded by the Romanovs. Throughout their rule, the Rurikids fortified, defended and expanded their territory - sometimes with fierce and terrifying battles, sometimes with reconciliation and peace treaties. Most importantly, however, it was under their rule that Russian culture developed, and the Russian nation emerged to become the vast transcontinental and multi-ethnic state that exists today.
- Major Bestuzhev is promoted to Lt Colonel and given command of a newly-formed fighter regiment. He is given the latest Soviet fighter, the Yak-3, but with no veterans to draw upon he has to rely on green pilots straight out of training.
- 1878. Larissa Kirsanova, a young mathematics teacher, arrives in a small provincial town of Bogorodsk. Miss Kirsanov is brought here by the desire to find her fiancé, a young nobleman Pavel Bestuzhev, who mysteriously disappeared the day before their wedding, without saying goodbye or even leaving a letter. Pavel comes from Bogorodsk, where there only his old mother remained of his relatives. Larissa's favorite aunt, Lizaveta Prokofyevna, also lives here. Meanwhile, veterans of the Russian-Turkish war return war from the Balkans after the war's end. The whole town rejoices when meeting the heroes. On her arrival in the province, Larisa has no clue of a completely different type of life awaiting for her here, where her amazing abilities, intelligence and character will be fully revealed. From now on, her life will be full of mysteries, risk and disclosure of high-profile crimes.
- The project is dedicated to one of the most remarkable and dramatic periods in history - the Napoleonic Wars from 1803 to 1815. They were a continuation of the wars originally sparked off by the French Revolution of 1789 and threw Europe's armies into mobilization on an unprecedented scale. The Coup d'Etat on 9 November 1799 put France into the hands of a man endowed with a natural genius as a commander and almost unlimited ambition. The 'old order' of Europe was, at the time, in chaos and disunity, with governments operating independently of others, each engaged in the short-term pursuit of private gain and nationalist policies. These factors, together with the powerful army created by Napoleon, combined to make him lord of the European continent, part of his dream of creating a 'global monarchy', with France at its supreme head.
- It is July 1941, and the Nazis are advancing towards Kiev at great speed. As the situation in the city becomes more tense and untenable, Ivan Rokotov's job, as senior investigator at the Kiev Military Prosecutor's Office, becomes increasingly busier. When Nikolay Mirsky, Deputy Chief Military Prosecutor of the Red Workers' and Peasants' Army, unexpectedly arrives from Moscow, he quickly decides to form a special squad at the Military Prosecutor's Office of the Front to include Rokotov and Svetlana Yelagina, a former investigator for the Dnepropetrovsk Crime Investigation Department. Rokotov and Yelagina are tasked with investigating major cases by acting both at the frontline in the territory of the Kiev Fortified Area, and in the city itself, where rising criminals are joining German subversives in infiltrating the city, while a number of Soviet government representatives are happily profiting from other people's misery and suffering. Rokotov, who was educated at a high school during the reign of the last Russian Tsar, and Yelagina, an ardent Young Communist League member, have to overcome their political and ideological differences before being able to work together, reacting quickly and efficiently to the constant changes in the city. Fighting against both overt and clandestine enemies, Ivan and Svetlana begin to experience a shift in their professional relationship, which grows into real love, possible only in the face of certain death. Meanwhile, Mirsky is holding his own investigation aiming at exposing a spy organization that has been operating in Kiev since the late thirties, but his search leads him unexpectedly to a secret conspiratorial group directly connected to his and Rokotov's pasts..
- Russian adaptation of The Mentalist.
- A rich heiress, Maria Sorokina, goes missing after a quarrel with her husband. Boris Novinsky, head of the police station, entrusts this case to a young detective, yesterday's intern, Alina Novinskaya, his daughter. It turns out that a maniac who strangles and disfigures young women who look like Maria Sorokina operates in the town. The search for Maria brings her husband, Mark, and Alina together. Seven years later, Alina and Mark have a strong family. But one day, Mark goes on a business trip and meets there a woman who looks like his missing wife, Maria, like two peas in a pod. Mark is unable to master the feelings that have overwhelmed him again and leaves Alina for a woman who so frighteningly resembles his late first wife. Meanwhile murders of young women are renewed in the town - a mysterious maniac, already forgotten by everyone, goes hunting again. Alina, abandoned by her husband, returns to the police work and the search for a maniac, which leads her to a shocking discovery.
- 1986, Afghanistan. The Mujahideen announce the launch of a new air-defense system called Stinger, which could potentially end Soviet supremacy in the air. Commander of Intelligence, Major Okovalkov is assigned the mission of getting hold of this new weapon and to do this, he has to intercept a small caravan transporting, according to intelligence information, a couple of Stingers. However, as it turns out, the caravan is a large heavily guarded vehicle with a well-armed escort. Realising that the mission is doomed to fail before it has begun, Okovalkov decides to let the caravan pass and then return to his unit, but his plans are ruined when a young and inexperienced soldier suddenly opens fire. A fight ensues during which most of the Soviet squad is killed. With only seven survivors and no radio contact, Okovalkov's real ordeal begins when he is forced to march his injured men over 45 kilometres back to base.
- Nina Nikitina, who works for a translation agency, is also busy with preparations for her upcoming wedding. But from time to time and in total secrecy, she leaves her office to watch, from a careful and discreet distance, an 8-year-old girl called Varia. In fact little Varia is Nina's daughter whom she rejected after giving birth to her. Nina cannot forgive herself for this cruel decision, but gaining custody of Varia now is impossible, as the girl has two wonderful adoptive parents, Masha and Andrey Gromov. But when Nina learns that Varia's adoptive mother has died in a car accident, she is beside herself with worry, well imagining what the orphaned girl is now going through. To be closer to her daughter, Nina decides to leave her job and enter the Gromov household posing as a nanny and child psychologist.
- A dramatized biography of Anna German: a Polish singer, immensely popular in Poland and in the Soviet Union in the 1960s-1970s.
- Mishka Yaponchik is not an ordinary raider with Odessa flavor. Only an extraordinary person could become the king of thieves, keep the whole city in fear and at the same time be the people's favorite.
- Katia, Tamara, Sveta and Zhenia have been friends since childhood, and even though they attended colleges in different cities, they always returned to the same suburb on the outskirts of Moscow where they grew up. Now, in their early thirties, the house Tamara inherited from her parents becomes their meeting place and favourite hang-out. Top doctor Katia, super mum Tamara, successful lawyer Sveta and realtor Zhenia have one thing in common - they all want to fall in love, and although their lives and love affairs are always dramatic and complicated, the friends continue in their search. The series begins with each character in the midst of a conflict, be it with their nearest and dearest or with themselves. Each is experiencing difficulties in finding love or holding on to it, and their fates intertwine at a crucial point in the series' plot. While our heroines experience highs and lows, happiness, suffering and solitude they are always there to support one another. With an unexpected climax at the series' finale, the four friends realize that, although their lives have irrevocably changed, their friendship has remained unaltered and is now stronger than ever.
- Why does love die? Why did it seem to you, before you met Him, that He was the only Prince Charming in the world, and now you cannot even remember your first date with Him? Why is it that, when thinking of the past, you believe you have made a mistake and can only sigh sadly, "If only it would have..."? It seems to the 35-year-old Yekaterina Kolesnikova that her life got on to the wrong track: instead of being a model on the catwalk in Milan she works in a factory making working clothes. And her husband, a once brilliant and talented musician, has turned out to be a local finance officer. But now Fate suddenly gives Katya a chance to go back seventeen years and try to change her life. Will it make her happy?
- Saga about the lives of two young women, Rita and Vera, who became closest friends at a crucial historical moment of USSR's collapse. The story covers twenty years of their life. Because of the love for the same man, Maksim, Rita and Vera turn from the best friends into deadly enemies, dangerous for each other. Bitterly envious of Rita, insidious Vera is dreaming to get her hands not only on Rita's love, but also on her money and her life. At the same time, Rita wishes to start her life from scratch. And one day fate gives each of them a unique chance: to start their life anew. However, old grievances and sins do not allow Vera to forget about the past and stop hating her more successful and pure friend Rita.
- 1895, St. Petersburg. Anastasia Ardashnikova, one of the first women to receive a diploma from the Sorbonne Faculty of Law, returns from France to her homeland.
- Despite the prohibition of her parents, 20-year-old Faina Feldman is going to conquer theatrical Moscow. The capital greets her with hostility, but Faina does not care much, especially since real friends and mentors appear in her life who teach, help, and patronize. Every little success is replaced by a serious life drama. A revolution, then a war... and every time - a serious struggle for life, which rests on a fragile hope, great love for the theater and absolute faith in one's own destiny.
- After surviving a horrendous car crash, which also involved his wife Svetlana and his son Kirill, Pavel Frolov's waking life appears to have split into two separate reality strands - in the first one Kirill has survived the crash, whereas in the second one Svetlana is the survivor. Each strand plays out alternately every morning that Pavel wakes up. Both realities are so vivid that Pavel believes he is living two separate lives. In each of them, he tries to bring the two realities together in a desperate attempt to find out who or what caused the accident. At the same time Pavel tries to restore himself in his son's esteem and his wife's affection, to make up for many years of neglect in which his work took priority.
- What can threaten the life of a happy woman, the mother of the perfect family, a loved and loving wife, and a director of a successful company? Could it be a shadow from the past? A tough childhood at boarding school maybe, the loss of her first baby, or the fear of exposure and a desperate struggle for her loved ones' happiness? By overcoming many mistakes and difficulties, our heroine comes to an understanding of life's true values, including family ties, which triumph over time and fear.
- Autumn 1941. Miraculously escaping from the Kiev boiler, investigators from the military prosecutor's office Rokotov, Mirsky and Elagina arrive in Kharkov, where evacuation is already in full swing. They have in their hands important information about the activities of the German espionage organization. New circumstances force them to linger in Kharkov. Indeed, together with the enterprises being evacuated, under the guise of refugees, further groups of German saboteurs are moving further east, whose purpose is sabotage and sabotage at military factories. Trying to open the channels for transporting scouts to the Soviet rear, Rokotov and Elagina find out that the organization operating in Kharkov is directly related to the Kiev group that they discovered a few hours before the city was surrendered. And the curator of both of these groups occupies a high post in the Main Military Prosecutor's Office.
- An attractive young woman, Ulyana happens to witness a murder and is forced into hiding from the killers to avoid the same fate. Her best friend who has been in love with her for many years, helps her to disappear and be rid of the dangerous pursuers. Ulyana decides to move to another city, where her rich and successful twin sister, Lera lives. The two sisters have not been in contact for a long time and, on the threshold of the reunion, Ulyana discovers that Lera has just died. When Ulyana shows up at Lera's house, Lera's husband, friends and colleagues take her for Lera. Will Ulyana be able to 'become' her twin sister and play the role perfectly?
- November 1941. German troops continue their offensive and come close to Moscow. After completing a combat mission in Kharkov, Elagina and Mirsky arrive in Rostov-on-Don. They will have to survive the first occupation of Rostov, investigate a series of complicated crimes and get on the trail of saboteurs, whom representatives of the military prosecutor's office will judge "according to the laws of wartime."
- Masha is in love with Igor, her college mate, and wants to marry him, but he does not seem in much of a hurry to lead the girl to the altar. In a moment of sudden desperation, Masha decides to try and spur on her dawdling fiancé by applying to the local registry office for a civil marriage with the first man she chances to meet. The thwarted Igor soon realises his mistake and tries to win Masha back, but it seems to be too late. In the meantime, Masha did not expect that her new relationship that began as a joke will soon develop into true love. Fortune, however, smiles on Igor when his loathed rival suddenly disappears right before the wedding. Now it seems that nothing can stand in the way of Igor starting a new life with Masha after all. This could have been the end of the story, if it were not for a chance photograph taken by a guest at their wedding. After a few years that unfortunate picture will turn the heroes' lives upside down.
- Marina is a 37-year-old divorcee who raises her 12-year-old daughter alone and works as a teacher at an art school. It seems to Marina that her ordinary life is already over until she accidentally meets Nikita. The young man falls instantly in love with Marina and will do anything to be with her. Marina loves Nikita too but is more than aware of the 17-year age gap between them. Nikita does not see their difference in age as an obstacle and is ready to marry Marina immediately. But Marina is afraid for their future and worried that people will disapprove. She hesitates and runs back to her hometown where her parents introduce her to their new neighbour Igor, a decent and responsible man, who is the same age as Marina. He too falls in love with her, and she agrees to marry him, but will Nikita let go of the woman he loves so easily?
- Summer and autumn 1944. Odessa. The city, liberated by the Red Army from the German-Romanian occupation, begins a new lease of life. But, according to military intelligence, a network of Abwehr agents recruited from among the local population and professionally trained saboteurs remained in the city after the Nazis retreated. Now a special task force is being formed in Moscow consisting of members of SMERSH and the military prosecutor's office investigators, who will be sent to Odessa to strengthen the local authorities and the police. The group, under the command of SMERSH Captain Viktor Zvyaginov, includes two investigators from the military prosecutor's office, Svetlana Elagina and Ivan Rokotov, who not only find the trail of Abwehr agents, but simultaneously solve a number of criminal cases. Along with their professional military activities, the romance between Svetlana and Ivan, who lost each other during the Red Army's retreat from Kharkov in 1941, is rekindled when they are reunited after a long separation.
- Former member of the Murder Squad of the State Department of Internal Affairs, Igor Svetlov returns to his home town intent on finding the killer of his brother. He soon notices some significant and shocking changes to the residential district - drugs and stolen property are being traded almost openly on the streets, schoolteachers are in fear of their own students, and teenagers operate protection rackets on private shops. The local police do not dare to appear on the streets after dark except in the most extreme and urgent cases, and the local citizens stopped believing in justice a long time ago. A real war of survival begins in the neighbourhood with Svetlov's arrival, as he is opposed not only by gangsters, but colleagues and people close to him will be on the other side of the barricades too.