Movies: Ivan Shvedoff

Lichter is an episodic tale from Hans-Christian Schmid about the life on the border between Germany and Poland. The film sheds light on the everyday stories of escape and desperateness....

A romantic comedy about a twenty three years old Kirill who suddenly decides to become a gigolo....

Wide-legged gait, hair on her teeth, hands on her hips: carpenter Katharina has a brash appearance. But beneath the rough exterior lies a poetic core. This comes to light when she writes tender letters to the restorer Jakob. In fact, the art-loving g...

The over-ambitious Koralnik has a dream job: he is a contract killer for a secret EU programme. But even eight years after his training he still hasn't had a single hit. Bored and frustrated, he lives according to the programme's strict rules - withd...

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Eight people on a journey across Germany. Each has a destination in mind, each has worries as well as wishes. Fate brings them together. The carpooling agency throws them together in three cars. They have to spend several hours together in a very con...

A policeman suspects that several bizarre deaths in the same family were murders and that the killer is a mysterious woman who just moved to the village....

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In 1998 a Russian Military Space Station received a powerful signal of unknown origin. Sixty-seven hours later the Station broke up in the Earth's atmosphere. The Russian Government initiated an extensive cover-up. They were unable to find the Statio...

Eight years after his family was murdered he has returned home to bury his past and discover his future....

A Russian drone operator uses a nuclear powered drone to lure alien object to the orbit, immobilizes them and captute them. But when that object came close to earth, the drome operator loses contact with the commanding officer and have to decide what...

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A lonely woman's prank phone call leads to an unexpected friendship with a grieving widow....

Seven teenagers and three teachers from a Welsh school visit Russia in a bid to rediscover themselves. On the overnight sleeper service to St Petersburg the students get separated from the teachers, which allows the students ample scope for rediscove...

A young Japanese girl Rin-san comes to the pre-revolutionary Russia with a great and wonderful mission: to understand the mastery of iconography and attach Japan to the Russian Christian culture. She does not know that Russia stands on the verge of t...

A student is trying to build a career in theater using not his talent but looks and sexuality....

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The young wannabe country singer Helen is terminally ill. Her biggest dream is to sing at the legendary Bluebird Café in Nashville, but through a chain of coincidences she ends up in Jamaica. At first, she has little to do with the locals and their m...

A dying actor asks a doctor to help him commit suicide in return for a masterpiece....

Almanac of five short stories commissioned by ROSKOMKINO to celebrate the 100th anniversary of cinema....