Ekaterina Vinogradova

A story about bravery, self-sacrifice and human dignity put on trial by the merciless power of nature. A young pilot is fired from military air force after disobeying an absurd order. He gets a job as a co-pilot with a civil airline. Being brutally honest and direct, he is not on best terms with his new colleagues. During a flight to Asia his crew receives a distress message from a volcanic island and makes a decision to attempt a rescue mission. Will it be a success? Will they survive the disaster? They have a single chance to find that out: by being a team and sticking up for one another.

Europe, 1709. Russia and Sweden are at war. Two French duelists are exiled by King Louis XIV of France: one to the side of Czar Peter the Great of Russia, the other to the side of King Charles XII of Sweden. Although separated by war and allegiance, fate has not finished with them.

On New Year's Eve, nine-year-old Vanya from Kirov, having learned of his parents' separation, sets off for Veliky Ustyug to ask Father Frost for a miracle.

The beginning of the 1960s, a period of aggravation of the confrontation between the USSR and the USA. In the most difficult weather conditions and with malfunctions on board, the first Soviet nuclear submarine K-3 sets off for a hike under the ice of the Arctic Ocean in order to surface exactly at the North Pole.

Uncle Yura, serves as a security guard in an elite village, raises a mini-pig Kostya and does not like New Year at all.

Biopic of Russian ice hockey legend Valeri Kharlamov from early childhood, rising to the pinnacle of the sport and his untimely death

A story about a friendship between eighty years old sculptor and a way younger theater director.

An emergency physician is accused of negligence, imprisoned, and banned from practising medicine. Released on parole, he gets a job as an ambulance driver. Being part of the ER crew, he can’t hide his medical expertise and keeps saving lives, even if ‘unofficially’. He only wants one thing — to legally practice medicine again. The life of the ER station consists of dramatic and often unconventional medical cases and tumultuous relationships inside the team. The characters’ life stories are troubled, but love heals all their wounds. Meetings and goodbyes, parents and children, personal dramas: it’s all connected in the show while the characters look for and find ways out of the most challenging professional and romantic situations.

Vlada gets out of prison, gets a job as a barmaid and tries to establish a new life. But suspicion of murder falls on her.

Martha, at the age of eight, leads a life full of childish worries. The only relative nearby is the grandfather, who needs supervision more than the granddaughter. In order not to end up in an orphanage, Martha hides the truth from a teacher, a district police officer and a glamorous neighbor and asks a loser actor to pretend to be her father. Kazan relatives come to the rescue in the person of adventurer Marat. Only in the plans of the arrogant boy, not caring about the girl, but her Moscow apartments.

Max is the new guy in school, he’s just moved from Moscow and the big city lights where he was at private school, and now he’s the new kid at a local school in a provincial town in Russia. After going to a classmate’s birthday party, he just disappears. The investigation starts to peel layer after layer off not just Max’s life, but the lives of his classmates, revealing secrets that they’d rather keep hidden. Bullying, early drug and alcohol abuse, domestic violence all come to light – and not everyone is shocked, but who’s responsible? The New Guy looks at what happens when people you trust turn a blind eye.

The heroes of the almanac's stories are students who studied at the same institute in the 90s and lived together in a dormitory. Then many people left, their paths diverged and their lives turned out differently, but they did not lose touch and still communicate, help each other and share common problems. Fellow students meet 20 years later on the anniversary of their favorite teacher. But how many things will happen before this meeting…