Sanyok is an ordinary teacher in a school for difficult teenagers. This school is for children to whom life has left almost no chance. Their parents are most often drug addicts and alcoholics. For 10-15 years these children have seen many terrible things. Fighting with a tough bureaucratic system, Sanyok builds special, trusting relationships with them. So close that sometimes it seems like he is one of them. The fates of the guys develop in different ways, but even if it is possible to save the life of at least one, Sanya will consider that he did not live his life in vain.

The hero of the film is an ordinary Moscow teenager. And he lives a completely ordinary life of a Moscow teenager. With one exception, he is a fan of the game "Dog High", although he has not played it for a long time. But today he will try to play again. According to statistics, over the past 10 years, more than 1,000 teenagers have died from strangulation games.

Two young teachers arrive in a small provincial town with dreams of changing the school system. Katya and Vasya are not even thirty, they graduated from the best metropolitan universities. They are not professional teachers, but they love children and really want to sow what is reasonable, kind, and eternal. Therefore, they get a job at an ordinary local school and from the very beginning declare to each other that they do not want to scold children or punish them with deuces, they do not want to teach them to cram and walk in formation. Their goal is to show students how to think and create independently. The reality turns out to be much more complicated. Half of the children in this school after the 9th grade are going to vocational schools, they have little interest in creativity, they go to school like hard labor. Most teachers are not going to deviate from the traditions of Soviet education. Will the characters in the film retain their enthusiasm? Will they be able to find contact with difficult teenagers? Will they stay next year?

At the turn of the 1980s and 1990s, film director Alexei Yuryevich German created the first film studio, which became famous for the films of young debutant directors, who later became famous masters. The film will tell about how the Master selected talented directors, helped them take the first step and find themselves in the cinema.

TV version of the film.

At the end of the 80s of the last century, Alexey Yuryevich German created a film school based on the studio of the First and Experimental Film. Sergey Karandashov, a graduate of the workshop, talks about the process of recruiting students, their training, interaction with the master and teachers, their first steps in the profession.

Author's version of the film.

“Dear Markovich” is the name given to their beloved teacher Mark Iosifovich by students of one of the Moscow schools. About school life, the lessons that Markovich conducts in such a peculiar way, about the problems of the children, in the solution of which he takes an active part, this film tells.

Documentary observation of the life of high school students on the eve of the anniversary of the Victory. A film about the reverse side of patriotism.

Nastya is a gypsy. She lives in a rehabilitation center for troubled teenagers. It would seem that a seventeen-year-old girl has already come to terms with life according to someone else's rules, but everything changes when relatives come for her and take her to the camp for the holidays.

For most of today's schoolchildren, the siege of Leningrad is just one page in a history textbook. This film is not yet another attempt to tell them about the abstract “feat of Leningrad”, but an opportunity to see with their own eyes what is behind the seeming state school course. For example, with the help of computer graphics, so close to the heart of modern youth, the authors of the film demonstrated what St. Petersburg would look like today if the veterans had not survived, if the city had been surrendered to the enemy.

Mother of a girl who committed suicide due to bullying at school; yesterday's teens who have experienced bullying; a girl who herself was involved in bullying. All the characters in this film have something in common: pain, complexes, self-doubt, indifference of adults. But the problem can be solved, and the heroes of the film talk about what to do in such situations.

The more time passes since the end of the war, the more often attempts are made to rewrite its course and results. Especially historians and politicians of the new independent states that have appeared in the post-Soviet space. The problem is so acute that some time ago, the first persons of our country instructed a special commission to counteract attempts to falsify history to the detriment of Russia's interests. Next, a group of Russian scientists, historians and political scientists analyzed 187 school textbooks in 12 countries of the former USSR. The conclusions are sad. With the exception of Belarus and Armenia, in all other countries the interpretation of historical events is either biased or the historical facts themselves are falsified.

This is a movie about children who live every day with a reminder of war and enemies. This happens in today's Russia, in the city of Belaya Kalitva in the Rostov region. Teenagers take a Cossack upbringing.

The only time a high school teacher feels like her students at the Unified State Examination is when, with a cheat sheet, she needs to say farewell to chicks that have already fledged for 8 years, leaving their secondary education nest forever.

In 1917, during the Bolshevik Revolution, hundreds of families, partisans of the tsar and fallen imperial Russia fled across Europe. One hundred years later, nostalgia for the motherland is still alive.

Every summer, a military-patriotic camp for kids is being held on the Russian island of Sakhalin, 8000 km to the east of Moscow. The children are being trained in national values and armed combat, backed by lessons of Russian orthodox tradition. In Summer 2015, due to the 70th anniversary of the victory of the soviet army in WWII, the camp takes part in reconstruction of a historic battle, where the kids take on the roles of soldiers and the adults teach them how dying looks best on the battlefield.

Do you remember what you wanted at fifteen? Communication with the opposite sex, discos, forbidden joys. and most importantly, freedom. The boys in the cadet corps want the same, but they are expected to behave correctly, to be precise in their marching step, and to be completely obedient. And freedom remains out of reach, like a pipe dream. And when the officers “let go of the leash” a little and give a small illusion of freedom, this state turns out to be alien to the boys, and they don’t know what to do with this freedom.

The legendary personality, artist, philosopher, sportsman and teacher Gusein Magomayev and his Russian wife Olga 20 years ago in the foothills of Buynaksk built with their own hands the now world-famous school “Five Sides of the World”, a miracle, a challenge to terrorism and a spiritual alternative.

A Beautiful Tragedy is a character driven documentary film about 15 year old Oksana Skorik, at the Perm State Ballet School, who follows her mother’s dream to see her become a prima ballerina. Russian classical ballet is exceptional. It has glorious traditions, and is a distinct part of Russian self consciousness. The popular engagement is huge, and dance is taken to higher levels of perfection than anywhere else. The Perms Order of Honour Choreographic School lies far east in Russia, close to Siberia, and is one of the most renowned schools in the world. Of five hundred children selected for the annual audition at the school, only 30 are accepted. To get a place in the school the body has to be perfect: each part of the body is given marks, 5 is perfection. Then they look to see how supple the girls are, stretching their small bodies in every direction. Most of the girls spend 9 years at this school, sacrificing their youth and suffering unbearable pain – only to realize that their dream will not come true. Their ultimate goal could crash at any given moment. Oksana Skorik - the main character of the film - is the new Prima Ballerina at Meriinsky theatre in St Petersburg, and the new Russian star. This film is the 2nd part of the trilogy by David Kinsella and Anna Sirota called “The Children of Perestroika”. Other films - „Love Letters from a Children's Prison“ and „Killing Girls“ are also available for viewing on our site. The 3 films compare the Russian youth of before the revolution and after.

A film about Soviet childhood. The focus is on an ordinary Soviet boy, whose story is full of humor and colorful phrases. It is conducted from his birth to the festive graduation night. The whole life of the guy flashes on the screen, the Octobrists, red ties, faith in the victory of communism, admiration for Lenin, the Olympics-80, the iron curtain and the rejection of Western values, the first dances and falling in love, everything points to an irrevocably gone time. Through the prism of everyday life and holidays of an ordinary guy, a whole era of the cult of socialism and faith in the Soviet Union emerges. The film "Collection No. 1" turns back time, making you remember the past with nostalgia.

Three young people who grew up in large cities come to the remote Tambov village of Glazok to work as teachers. Will the guys manage to change the traditional village way of life or will the new life force them to change themselves?