This film was shot without a single cut, hidden camera in the Puppet Theater. For 10 minutes, the child watches the performance and the whole gamut of feelings is reflected on his face, from jubilation to absolute horror. In just 10 minutes of an ordinary theatrical performance, a 5-year-old boy gains a huge life experience... An absolute classic of non-fiction films.

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.

Walks around Moscow with actor Alexei Batalov as a host. Estates, theaters, museums, temples, parks, squares, streets, squares. Each of the series of the cycle offers an interesting story about different places in Moscow.

Chronicle of the casting for participation in the Israeli project "Cabaret". Russian repatriates, many of whom came to the capital from other cities, talk about themselves, then rehearsals and the only performance of the emerging theater follow. Dreaming of a theatrical career, people gradually transform and become real actors.

The film was conceived for the anniversary of the great actress. For almost sixty years she has been serving the theater, cinema and poetry. An important part of it is the change of times and even eras: war (childhood), thaw (youth), sixties (youth), stagnation, perestroika, nineties and the millennium. In the finale of the film, her last main role to date is "The Old Man and the Sea" by Anatoly Vasiliev. The words "And who defeated you? No one. I just went too far into the sea" are a philosophical understanding of this long, long road of man to the realization of his destiny.

In the spring of 2017, the Investigative Committee conducted the first searches as part of the criminal case, which everyone now knows as the Serebrennikov case, the Seventh Studio case, or the Platform case. Six people, including a world-famous director, are accused of stealing from the state more than one hundred million rubles allocated for staging performances. And they can go to jail for 10 years for that. Journalists Katerina Gordeeva and Roman Super tried to figure out what the essence of this case is. We talked to people who know what theater is, including in terms of money. We studied financial documents. Communicated with those with whom no one had ever been able to before. They figured out why the applause of the audience and the compliments of the Ministry of Culture turned into arrests. And of course, they went to all the court sessions.

In this film, five great Russian actresses, stars of Soviet cinema. Nonna Mordyukova, Tatyana Samoilova, Tatyana Okunevskaya, Lidia Smirnova, Vera Vasilyeva answer the questions of the film director Renata Litvinova.

The film is about the complex, passionate and at the same time deeply respectful relationship between two genius directors, a teacher (Meyerhold) and a student (Eisenstein). In the most difficult conditions of the totalitarian regime, adherence to eternal values helped both defend their art and themselves in it, preserve honor and dignity. Their relationship, creative and everyday actions are not only an artistic, but also a moral testament to future generations.

The film tells about the outstanding actor Georgy Zhzhenov, his life in Leningrad, the beginning of his film career, arrest, investigation, detention in Shpalerki and Kresty prisons. The protagonist, as it were, leads a tour of the historical places of his biography. The audience together with him visit the very cell where Zhzhenov spent two and a half years, his communal apartment. Georgy Stepanovich meets people with whom he once knew, long-forgotten names, surnames, lines of poetry come to mind.

In Soviet times, in the 50s, 60s and 70s, film magazines Our Land, Time Forward and others were regularly created and released on screens. Film magazines consisted of a set of stories about the life of the country and were built on the principle of a newspaper, which begins with big politics and ends with news of culture and sports. These magazines were created mainly to promote the Soviet way of life and only occasionally did something neutral and human appear in them. Film magazine plots are used as archival material in the film.

A film about an actress who does not play, but through a documentary tries to dot all the points.

Director Kirill Serebrennikov puts on the play "Thugs" with his students. But who would have thought that the action of the play would spill over to the Moscow streets and the purely stage events would be enriched with reality? Will reality come out on stage?

Mikhail Alexandrovich Ulyanov played many roles in the cinema. But one of them had a huge impact on him and on our society as a whole. What is the attitude towards this work today? The actor, finding himself at the turn of different social eras, reflects on time, on himself, and on his almost fatal protagonist.

By the sixtieth birthday of Oleg Efremov, it was planned to make a documentary film about the work of the actor and director. But as a result, Goldovskaya and her colleagues witnessed the split of the Moscow Art Theater. The film crew in February 1987 worked at the Moscow Art Theater. Famous actors Oleg Borisov, Alexander Kalyagin, Igor Kvasha express their point of view on the events in the theater. In April 1987 there were two Moscow Art Theater.

The hero of the film, Vasily Sigarev, tells stories from his life, which, slightly transformed, become the stories of his plays. For the inhabitants of his native Upper Salda, this is everyday life. For metropolitan theaters, this is an unprecedented reality of provincial life. For the audience, this is both laughter and horror. For a playwright, these are numerous awards and endless pain.

In 1991, the Moscow director Yevgeny Aryeh, with a handful of emigrants from the USSR, founded the Gesher Theater in Israel, which means “bridge” in Hebrew. Bridge between people. Bridge between cultures. And now between art forms. After all, "Eternal Rehearsal" is a fusion of theater and documentary films, a bridge between their languages.

An elderly wealthy actor obsessed with playing King Lear tragically experiences his own family drama as he transforms into a real-life Shakespearean character.

Provincial theater school students come to Moscow for a progressive arts festival. This is the story of the collision of the capital and the provinces, young talents and stars, the "old" school and the "new"; a story that is looped because it repeats itself with every generation.

A movie about a little woman in a foreign city - Italian actress in search for happiness in Moscow. She wants to become a screen actress, but cannot find a job, wants to conquer the theatrical scene, but could not get rid of accent, wants to get married, but has no luck in love... The film is about love, loneliness, faith, dream clashes with reality, self-perception of foreigners in the Russian space.

A rehearsal of the staging of Boccaccio's Decameron is taking place in the provincial theater. The actress is not up to the task. The director goes on a risky experiment, which inflicts deep psychological trauma on the actress, but in the end achieves the result he needs.