About Love. Adults Only
The second part of the film “About Love”. Moscow, summer 2016. A new lecture, a new lecturer with a new theme: “How to preserve love in the modern world” – and five new stories about love. The heroes still suffer, struggle for love, even more often get into absurd and ridiculous situations, and yet they trust in love even more.
Anna Melikyan
Anna Melikyan
Rezo Gigineishvili
Pavel Ruminov
Pavel Ruminov
Alexey Chupov
Alexey Chupov
Natalya Merkulova
Natalya Merkulova
Nigina Sayfullaeva
Nigina Sayfullaeva
Lyubov Mulmenko
Evgeny Shelyakin
Evgeny Shelyakin
Alexandr Tsypkin
Also Directed by Anna Melikyan
A short story about love and how a man literally from scratch can bring the brain to his beloved woman ... Anna Melikyan's short film for Action!
The documentary tells about a scandalous affair that began in 1976 in Moscow.
Annual Charitable Christmas Evening “Action!”
One day in the life of the courier girl
The fanciful tale of an introverted little girl who grows up believing she has the power to make wishes come true. She must reconcile this belief with reality when, as a young woman, she journeys to Moscow and grapples with love, modernity and materialism.
Somewhere deep, deep in Russia there is a town called Marks (named after Karl Marks, founder of Communism theory) where all people are working on toy factory and receiving their wages as toys. News from other cities are arriving on very rare occasion. One morning, Boris, a former boxing who is running from something, wakes up in train and see four letters MAR_S. From his first steps he starts to meet new people as Gregori, young man with a dream who is in love with local librarian, Greta, whose dream is to get out from this god-forgotten town. With each new step, he is meeting new people, but the past is hard to escape
The creator of the best virtual reality games is convinced that in reality everyone and everything is controlled, but a chance meeting with a young activist opens his eyes to the fact that the world is much wider and more complicated than anything that he knows and understands about it.
Film about pills from unhappy love
The story of a love triangle told from the perspective of each of the three.
Elena Ivanovna argues with her friend that she is still quite attractive and ready for a serious relationship. To prove this, she goes to St. Petersburg and looks for a man. There, she meets a Prince who takes an interest in her. Returning home, renewed and changed Elena Ivanovna decides to take care of herself. And now, when she is fully dressed and ready to meet the Prince, it turns out that the phone number that he left her does not exist. Having overcome depression from failure, Elena Ivanovna proceeds to search for the missing Prince.
Also Directed by Rezo Gigineishvili
Four good folks from schools got reunion in a summer café on the bank of River Moskva, and they had an unthinkable trouble to deal with check, though one of them is so rich. One by one, a friend left the table to find solution and everyone of them met with different stories. The rich one got caught, ended up in jail for a night with the help from other folks. Friendship never ends...
Short film from Action! 2019
Пассажиры вечернего рейса пристегнули ремни и приготовились к взлету.Но полет отложили до утра. Пассажиры отстегнули ремни и вышли из аэропорта. Под светом фонаря поблескивали капли косого дождя. В луже отразились два женских силуэта. Две женщины, две случайные попутчицы отправились в путешествие длиной в московскую ночь…Они меняют машины и настроение, мчатся по кольцевым и бульварам, смеются и плачут. Кажется, они могут позволить себе все в эту странную ночь, словно выпавшую из реальной жизни. Они могут все: страдать, любить, ненавидеть. Они не могут только одного — разойтись. Ими движет одна идея, одна мысль, одна страсть, и имя ее МУЖЧИНА.
A young naive provincial guy Artem visits a friend in Moscow in the hope of finding a new beautiful life, but first he has to help him working the bizarre job of “sober driver” at night. On the first evening, picking up beautiful Christina from a nightclub, a misunderstanding leads to Artem ending up with her in a hotel room. Completely forgetting of last night’s events, Christina mistakes the guy for a young millionaire, and he, in turn, is in no hurry to disappoint her. With each date Artem falls more and more in love with her, but getting out of ridiculous situations becomes more difficult.
Few not connected novels about the love. Few couples falling in love in different places of post USSR: Moscow, Georgia, Armenia.
Soviet Georgia, 1983. Preparations for Nika and Ana's wedding are in full swing and it's a big day for both of their elite families. For the newlyweds and their friends, however, the celebrations are in fact part of a cover-up, as they plot an audacious escape from the Soviet Union.
The main character of the picture is the Labrador, and the viewer is immersed in his thoughts, desires, which are connected with the main person in his life - the owner.
A story about love beyond any borders...
Maxim is cornered: absolutely uninvited guests come to him and ring the doorbell. A man tries to get out of delicate situations in his own manner.
Also Directed by Pavel Ruminov
In present-day Moscow ghosts of three little girls killed by their insane mother randomly pick a person to watch over for a three days. If during this "probation period" person's moral standards appear not to be high enough The Daughters then kill him using telekinesis.
When I first came to you - it was scary. You too, probably. And I still do not know what is happening. And never know. But. I really wanted to meet someone. I saw that you had some kind of hunger. Life is always engaged in its business - continues itself. We are gas stations. You are a gas station. And I am a gas station. And I found you. And you found me. And I refueled, and you refueled. And bang! Energy has arisen in us.
The main characters fell in love with each other, but they can’t be left alone - they are always disturbed by someone or something.
Most popular video bloggers were gathered to taste a new energy soft-drink in a mansion, which turns out to be a trap. To escape, they have to answer the question correctly: Who wants to kill them?
An anthology of five stories that can literally happen to anyone.
Director Pavel Ruminov wanted to break up with his girlfriend. But she had a different opinion on the matter and refused to leave the flat, insisting their story was not over yet.
Also Directed by Alexey Chupov
Egor Korshunov (40) is a Siberian forest guard who works in a local environmental company, fighting fearlessly against poachers in taiga. Egor is a great family man, respected by his fellow villagers. He and his wife Natalia are expecting a second child. Unexpectedly, Egor finds out that he has terminal cancer and has only two months left to live. No traditional medicine or shamanic magic can save Egor. Finally, left with no other options, he decides to take the last desperate step. He attempts to completely change his identity in order to fool the oncoming death, just like Zhamba the drake, the hero of a legendary ancient Siberian epos, did.
Moscow. High rise. Here, on the 12th floor, is the office of the call center "Online Store for Adults". One morning, twelve people who are in the office suddenly find out that there is a bomb in the room. The voices of the unknowns who introduced themselves as Dad and Mom threaten to blow it up at any time if the hostages do not follow their instructions. While the countdown is going on, they will have to experience the absolute power of invisible sadists and learn something about each other’s life that they did not even suspect.
Fast-paced story of pre-death repentance marathon for the Captain of the National Security Service (NKVD) Fedor Volkonogov set against the backdrop of 1938 political persecutions in USSR.
This is a story about three best friends: Shura, Yulya and Anya. They are 18 years old, all the most important things in life are happening for the first time, and they approach everything with youthful zeal and maximalism. Shura Ermakova falls in love with a teacher and on the same day she learns that her mother returned to her family, who left her as a child. Yulia Kuzmina can never break off relationships with her boyfriend, a policeman who constantly cheats on her, and Anya Silkina, using the connections of her dad-producer, comes up with a new career once a week.
Residents of a big city, each of whom has their own sexual problems and desires, secret and, most often, shameful from the point of view of society, need to solve them. Each of the characters tries to solve their problems in their own way: someone sublimates them, someone turns to a psychotherapist for help, someone rushes into experiments... but sooner or later they all return to where they started, and they have to overcome themselves again and again to get at least a little, even a millimeter closer to their happiness.
Also Directed by Natalya Merkulova
Egor Korshunov (40) is a Siberian forest guard who works in a local environmental company, fighting fearlessly against poachers in taiga. Egor is a great family man, respected by his fellow villagers. He and his wife Natalia are expecting a second child. Unexpectedly, Egor finds out that he has terminal cancer and has only two months left to live. No traditional medicine or shamanic magic can save Egor. Finally, left with no other options, he decides to take the last desperate step. He attempts to completely change his identity in order to fool the oncoming death, just like Zhamba the drake, the hero of a legendary ancient Siberian epos, did.
Moscow. High rise. Here, on the 12th floor, is the office of the call center "Online Store for Adults". One morning, twelve people who are in the office suddenly find out that there is a bomb in the room. The voices of the unknowns who introduced themselves as Dad and Mom threaten to blow it up at any time if the hostages do not follow their instructions. While the countdown is going on, they will have to experience the absolute power of invisible sadists and learn something about each other’s life that they did not even suspect.
A movie about one broken arm, love, sex, betrayal, hate, separation, Alfred Hitchkock, female panties and slightly salted pickles. Natalia Merkulova constantly interviewed her depressed 34-old boyfiend Liosha for several months talking about male-female relationship. The result is this 25 minutes long very honest documentary.
Fast-paced story of pre-death repentance marathon for the Captain of the National Security Service (NKVD) Fedor Volkonogov set against the backdrop of 1938 political persecutions in USSR.
Yana is a chief editor of a glamorous magazine whose life completely changes after she is pushed to adopt a little gipsy boy Yanko.
A movie about looking for the main substance.
This is the story that could be behind the famous photo of Alexander Rodchenko "Stairs". Moscow, 1929. The end of the era of constructivism in the USSR. A young woman comes to visit a middle-aged woman to resolve their complicated relationship.
This is a story about three best friends: Shura, Yulya and Anya. They are 18 years old, all the most important things in life are happening for the first time, and they approach everything with youthful zeal and maximalism. Shura Ermakova falls in love with a teacher and on the same day she learns that her mother returned to her family, who left her as a child. Yulia Kuzmina can never break off relationships with her boyfriend, a policeman who constantly cheats on her, and Anya Silkina, using the connections of her dad-producer, comes up with a new career once a week.
Also Directed by Nigina Sayfullaeva
A child, just a little before adulthood, without experience, without values, without looking around, has only one desire: to become a little older.
The young heroine is bored as she spends the summer with her parents at their summerhouse. Then her cousin comes to visit...
A practical joke ends up very wrong in Nigina Sayfullaevas curious youth drama. Two seventeen year old Moscow girls, Olya and Sasha, are visiting Olya's long lost father who lives in Crimea, when they decide to switch places and pretend to be the other person to the father. Little do they know that their joke comes with consequenses that will change their lives forever.
Lena is a talented midwife and gynaecologist, her husband Serezha is an actor at a provincial drama theatre. They are close and gentle with each other, but there is no sex. Lena suspects that Serezha has an affair, but she worries quietly and does not reveal her jealousy. Instead of sorting out her relationship with her husband, Lena starts to betray him with chance acquaintances. Gradually Lena’s parallel life gets out of control and changes her original life.
Also Directed by Evgeny Shelyakin
The misanthrope Alexander Christoforov, nicknamed "Alec", is a hopeless loser. The actor, who was celebrated in the Soviet era as the hero of "Eugene Onegin", is carving out a depressing existence as a bad paid figure of a ridicule historical show. Despised by his ex-wife, alienated from his son, Alec has totally screwed up his life. But when diagnosed with a mortal illness, he sets off on a ludicrous tour de force at the end of which a piece of eternity surprisingly awaits him - A comedy with a happy end.
The main character is a 12-year-old boy who goes in search of his mother and on this journey he meets a 27-year-old guy who helps him grow up. Remake of the Kyrgyz film
Friday night is almost like a shortened New year's night. One can expect every kind of surprises on that night. Friday night has its special magic.
We only think we are in control of our lives. But we are just puppets in the theater of our subconscious. The problems of psychologist Eduard and his patient Vitaly are unexpectedly interconnected. What to do about Eduardo? Help the patient to their own detriment or, forgetting everything, save their personal life?
Nurick and Yaroslav are trying to robe a criminal boss. Unfortunately Nurick dies but returns to the world with a mission: to be the guardian angel of Yaroslav.
Found unconscious and robbed on a beach in Thailand, 70-year old Xenophon only knows his own name because it was engraved on his old Soviet watch. He’s been left with no money and no identification…and he doesn’t speak a word of Thai. But Xenophon is a resourceful man. He begins to build a new life with friends and a new business, but there’s something disturbing in his past that he can only glimpse through his shattered memory. Is he really who he seems?