Movies: Nikita Mikhalkov

Nikita Mikhalkov introduces his favorite paintings by Russian painters of the XIX century. The viewer is presented with a qualified look at the artistic trends and preferences of that period. The series tells about the fate of artists and the heroes ...

Documentary about director's mother....

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About the love of Lenin and the Finnish girl Mariot, from whom he had a child, who subsequently disappeared without a trace....

A half-fiction half-documentary story about sport and it's importance in everyday life....

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Philip is very successful. Everything in his life happens according to his plan. He is a brilliant lawyer, winning all hopeless cases thanks to his informal connections with supreme authorities. He is also happy in his private life: his virtuous wife...

Emir Kusturica views himself as a rock musician and believes that he became a world-famous filmmaker by pure chance, as he shoots his movies only in between concert tours with the “No Smoking Orchestra” band. At these little pinpoints of time he gets...

Phone conversation between an abandoned husband and his friend....

The Russian entry in the BFI’s Century of Cinema series of documentaries...

The story of Princess Anna Yaroslavna, Queen of France....

Documentary about director's father...

On the 50th anniversary of the Minister of Emergency Situations Sergei Shoigu, with whom the director has a long-term friendship....

About a prominent Russian director, whose daughter becomes the victim of a terrorist attack in Cannes. Blame for the tragedy rests on the shoulders of the hero himself, and in order to get out of a difficult situation, he must get a large sum of mone...

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Returning to the city on a wet night highway, Sasha fails to control and makes a run over a lone pedestrian. Yielding to the entreaties of his wife Tamara, he leaves the wounded man near the village hospital and returns home....

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This dialogue-free short film, Devochka I Veshchi (A Girl and Things), was one of Mikhalkov’s first student films, made under the tutelage of Mikhail Romm, himself a legendary filmmaker. It is a modernist (and very Soviet) look at a young girl’s inte...