A humorous story of a non-humorous national identity question. In globalizing Russia, the spiritual leader of the renewed Besermyan Nation and an Estonian folklore singer Masha try to save the dying Besermyan culture.

Starting in 1881 this film shows the personal battle between Lenin's Ulyanov family and the royal Ro...

At the peak of Perestroika, in 1987, in the village of Gorki, where Lenin spent his last years, afte...

The Moscow Case is a 52 minute documentary with never-before-seen footage of Michael Jackson in Mosc...

This film was broadcast on La Sept in October 1990 as a part of Hélène Mochiri's Cinéma de poche pro...

Alexander Birgukov shot and killed his two commanding officers. He was sentenced to death but when i...

Margarita Mamun, an elite Russian rhythmic gymnast, is struggling to become an Olympic champion. It ...

After 20 years of living in Berlin, the director Olga Delane goes back to her roots in a small Siber...

In Northern Russia, a few dozen people still live in their traditional houses surrounded by water, s...

The lifestyle, self-styling and political opinions of Chechen dictator Ramsan Kadyrov are examined i...

Traces the new Cold War between Russia and the West from the ban on American citizens adopting Russi...

A candid, fly-on-the-wall BBC television documentary portrait of Russian Nationalist politician, Vla...

The Soviet Union was a sinister world. Now the Iron Curtain has fallen, and for the first time we ca...

Right outside of Moscow – home to the highest number of billionaires pr. capita – you’ll find the la...
In the summer of 2008, a butcher, a surgeon, a driving instructor, an engineer, a filmmaker and a th...

Tells the story of how Edward Snowden managed to evade capture by the US. For the first time Snowden...

The Russian filmmaker, Pavel Klusjantsev, has had an extraordinary influence on an entire genre of f...

When Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon in 1969, America went down in popular history as the winne...

Masha Drokova is a rising star in Russia's popular nationalistic youth movement, Nashi. A smart, amb...
Ilya Kabakov is considered one of the most important contemporary artists worldwide. Born and raised...