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This film is about the Solovetsky Special Purpose Camp (SLON), one of the many Gulag zones scattered around the country. Used documents and film materials of the 1920-30s. The film features former prisoners of Soviet camps: Dmitry Likhachev, Efim Lagutin, Oleg Volkov, Zoya Marchenko, Olga Adamova-Sliozberg, Anatoly Gorelov and others.
Solovky Power
10
Marina Goldovskaya
USSR, 1988
87 min
A film about the life, games and everyday life of a 7-year-old girl from a dysfunctional family living in a forest near a big city. And, as little Milana finds out, from a normal life.
Milana
10
Madina Mustafina
Russia, 2011
57 min
A documentary about the life of an eight-year-old schoolgirl Gin-mi in Pyongyang, the capital of the DPRK, shot by a Russian filmmaker in a script written by North Korean comrades.
Under the Sun
10
Vitaly Mansky
Russia, Germany, Latvia, Czechia, North Korea, 2015
106 min
English
The events of the film begin on December 31, 1999 when Russia was acquainted with its new president. The film is based on unique and strictly documentary testimonies of the true causes and consequences of the operation "successor", as a result of which Russia ended up with the president who still rules the country. The protagonists of the film are Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, Vladimir Putin, and the Russian nation, as always being a silent witness of its own destiny.

Internet-premiere of the film took place on the 12th December 2018 at the Artdoc.Media online movie theatre.
Putin's Witnesses
10
Vitaly Mansky
Switzerland, Latvia, Czechia, 2018
104 min
English
The history of a family. The history of the country. Ukraine 2014–2015. Director of the movie, Vitaly Mansky, was born in Ukraine, and, after finishing his studies in VGIK, he lived and worked in Moscow. His family still lives in Ukraine, and because of the Russian-Ukrainian military conflict, his family members had to make a choice, which resulted in some of them becoming sworn enemies. This film reveals different aspects of the conflict, focusing on the situations faced by an “ordinary” person, as well as examining different views of the world, so that the spectator can look deeper into the roots of these tragic events. At the same time, the interviews made by the director – conversations with relatives –reveal the feelings and views of these people but also provide an insight into the history of Ukraine and preconditions of this conflict. The film shows how the conflict caused hatred among the citizens of the same country. Close Relations is the most personal movie made by Vitaly Mansky.
Rodnye (Close relations)
10
Vitaly Mansky
Estonia, Germany, Ukraine, Latvia, 2016
112 min
Russian, English
The acclaimed documentary ALMOST HOLY tells the story of Gennadiy Mohknenko, a Ukrainian pastor who has taken up the fight against child homelessness by forcibly abducting street kids and bringing them to his private rehabilitation center. Gennadiy's ongoing efforts and unabashedly tough love approach to his city's problems has made him a folk hero to some, and a lawless vigilante to others. Using gripping footage that follows the self-appointed savior's mission over the course of fifteen years, interspersing imagery from a popular Soviet animated TV show; ALMOST HOLY is a bold and captivating portrait of a man fighting to change Ukraine for the better, as its place in a tense political landscape hangs in the balance.
Almost Holy
10
Steve Hoover
USA, 2015
97 min
English
"Gorbachev. Heaven" is a documentary film about changes that reverberated throughout the world wrought by one man. A film summing-up the life of a man who changed the world in the 20th century. Gorbachev’s short time in power was marked by the collapse of this empire. He was the architect of Glasnost and Perestroika, policies that gave the citizens of the Soviet Union – what Ronald Reagan called “the Evil Empire” – a chance to be free. He tore down the Berlin Wall. But at the same time, under his rule, the Chernobyl nuclear facility exploded and its destruction was concealed. Citizens demanding independence in the Baltic states died. Soldiers wielding shovels brutally suppressed protesters in Tbilisi. And Soviet tanks menaced, and killed, peaceful demonstrators in Baku. The Soviet empire collapsed under him – and he is condemned by his own people. With this burden of the past, this lonely old man is living the last days of his life in an empty house in the suburbs near Moscow.

Detailed information about the film, reviews, articles, interviews and photos are available on the official website of Vitaly Mansky Manski-doc.com.
Gorbachev. Heaven
10
Vitaly Mansky
Latvia, Czechia, 2020
100 min
English
Everyday life of a mobile blood transfusion station in Russia.
Blood
10
Alina Rudnitskaya
Russia, 2013
62 min
English
A film about modern Europe. About its two edges, or, more correctly, extremes. About Europe, which begins in the deserted space of Russian Siberia and ends on the cozy beaches of the Bay of Biscay, where even the laws of nature form fundamentally different styles of human existence. What can unite such different lives? Physically, they are united by the Western Siberia–Western Europe gas pipeline. The pipe not only connected, but also inextricably linked THIS Russia with THIS Europe. The film was awarded the National Film Award "Nika" - 2014, nomination Best Non-Fiction Film.
Pipeline
10
Vitaly Mansky
Russia, Germany, Czechia, 2013
116 min
English
Chronicle project about children born on the eve of 2000.
Generation
9
Vitaly Mansky
Russia, 2006
528 min
One of the parts of Leonid Parfyonov's project called "Russian Empire". The cycle is dedicated to Emperor Nicholas II and consists of three series. It fully covers the reign of Nicholas II, from the coronation in 1896 to his abdication and death in 1917.
The Russian Empire. Nicholas II
9
Leonid Parfenov
Russia, 2003
195 min
The film crew goes to the small town of Arvay on the edge of the Gobi Desert. In 1986, there was a Soviet military base here. And very close to this base, on the mountain, the military laid out the date from slate. It can still be seen on the map.
Tsurtsula
9
Alexey Telnov
Russia, 2014
52 min
Russian
One of the most high-profile investigations of the Anti-Corruption Foundation. Investigation of the activities of the sons of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Yuri Chaika, Igor and Artem, their "business" built on extortion, kickbacks and raiding.
Gull
9
Alexey Navalny
Russia, 2015
44 min
Russian
This is a story about how to overcome fear, change your life forever. This is the love story of a man and a woman doomed to eternal separation. And children who will always bear the seal of what their parents did. The main action of the film takes place in Israel, from 1995 to the present day. Before us is a drama of life, death, hate and love. The film was awarded the National Lavr Prize - 2014 as the Best Film and the White Elephant Award of the Russian Guild of Film Critics and Critics - 2015 as the Best Non-Fiction Film. This tape was the last work of the great Hertz Frank. After his departure, the film was completed by Maria Kravchenko.
On the verge of fear
9
Herz Frank, Mariya Kravchenko
Russia, Latvia, 2014
89 min
Russian
The heroes of the film, young Caucasians, are the children of the war that destroyed their childhood and youth. What do they remember about the past other than suffering? And what about their present?
Body parts
9
Mariya Kravchenko
Russia, 2009
39 min
Zhzhenov's activities in the cinema began before the age of 22. Then there was an arrest with interrogations and prisons, then camps. The artist talks about his life in Russian prisons and those places where he was imprisoned, in Crosses, in Vladivostok, in Magadan. Excerpts from the films in which Georgy Zhzhenov starred surprisingly reveal his own life.
Georgy Zhzhenov. Russian cross
9
Sergey Miroshnichenko
Russia, 2004
260 min
An 80-minute episode of military everyday life in Ukraine, filmed in one frame.
Bullet's Flight
9
Beata Bubenec
Russia, Latvia, 2017
80 min
English
The film tells about Sergei Yun-Fu, or Sergei Mao, the son of Mao Zedong, and Nikolai Elizarov, or Chiang Ching-guo, the son of Chiang Kai-shek. Both of them grew up, got an education and worked in the USSR. One fought as a tanker in the Soviet Army during the Great Patriotic War, the other was one of the leaders of Uralmash. But the Comintern and the NKVD equally disposed of their Russian destinies. Both were valuable figures in Stalin's game of influence in China and in the bitter struggle for power between the two Chinese dictators. Both returned to China to become companions of their fathers in this struggle. They themselves never met. Sergei died in the Korean War in 1950. Jiang Jingguo became the President of Taiwan.
Mao and Chan. Russian children
9
Aleksandr Smirnov
Russia, 2005
44 min
The film tells about the "devil's layer cake" of the German occupation regime during World War II, about different attitudes towards the occupiers, which forever divided people into two irreconcilable camps.
Flowers during the occupation
9
Igor Grigoriev
Russia, 2001
74 min
Over the past year, Sergei Udaltsov, coordinator of the Left Front opposition movement, spent more than two months under arrest. In prison, he declared dry hunger strikes in protest against illegal detentions at rallies, on the way to rallies, just on the street. Many times he was hospitalized due to deterioration of health during hunger strikes. But this most controversial leader of the Russian opposition is surrounded by people almost more mysterious than himself. What leads them, following Udaltsov to rallies, under the batons of riot police, venturing on hunger strikes and ready to jump from the Crimean bridge?
Go! Go! Left!
9
Eugenia Montagna Ibanez
Russia, 2012
60 min
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