Who Is This Kusturica?
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 “Palms d’Or” at Cannes, “Golden Lions” in Venice, builds his own villages, a power plant and a piste and regrets not becoming a professional football player. Kusturica’s own living is very much similar to his movies, where shoes are polished with cats, death is treated like a story from tabloid press, and life is a miracle...
Natalya Gugueva
Natalya Gugueva
Casts & Crew
Emir Kusturica
Also Directed by Natalya Gugueva
"I can get closer to God only through love for a man," says 75-year-old sculptor Marta, who still retains the ability to fall in love. And with each falling in love, experience your new birth - A WOMAN AND AN ARTIST. Her life dramatically combines old age, approaching death with a thirst for love and creativity…
The Holy Martyr Mikhail Shik was shot during the Great Terror at the Butovo training ground in 1937. This is the story of the Sacrament of marriage, the love story of a man and a woman, in which each of them - apart or together - aspired to holiness."
“To settle for the martyrdom and death for faith, a man must feel the reality of God being and the reality of the other world.” The film is about the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia who martyred for Orthodox faith in the middle of the 20th century.
“To get up, you have to fall down,” the legendary boxer Kostya Tszyu understood this from his own experience. During his career in professional boxing at the time of filming, he suffered one defeat. But it turned out to be more important than all his victories.
A saxophonist musician falls in love with an aerialist from the circus. For her sake, he gives up music, to which he has been devoted all his life. In order to be together with the woman he loves all the time, he becomes an aerialist and does a joint circus act with her. The number is gaining international recognition. But it was the joint work in the circus that was the beginning of the destruction of their family. At a time when the greatest desire of the heroes - to be together - has been achieved, another woman appears in their life…
When Tsar Nicholas II abdicated, 43 people agreed to follow him into exile and share his prison life with him. Only 43 - out of the entire multimillion-dollar Russia! Among them there was not a single relative of the Tsar and Tsarina, not a single member of the royal family. There were no close friends of Nikolai P's youth, whose friendship he treasured all his life. Even the Romanovs' blood relatives abroad renounced the Royal Family.
The history of the creation and the present day of the carrier—based fighter aviation of Russia, told by one of its founders - the Hero of Russia, Major General Timur Apakidze, who died on 17.07.2001 during demonstrations at the celebration in honor of the 85th anniversary of naval Aviation at the Center for Combat Training and Retraining of Naval Aviation Personnel near Pskov.
On April 12, 1961, the whole world learned the name of the man who became the most famous in the history of mankind: Yuri Gagarin. Overnight, he became the idol of millions, and his smile turned into a symbol. However, immediately after Gagarin's flight, a report appeared in Life magazine, in which it was written under the triumphant photo of the First cosmonaut: "This man has everything behind him!". When Gagarin became world famous, he was only 27 years old. The unprecedented fame that befell a simple guy born in a village in the Smolensk region became a much more serious test for Gagarin than his flight around the Earth. People who knew Gagarin well, all as one, repeated: "There was nothing special about him. He was ordinary." But the fact that it was Gagarin who became the First cosmonaut of the planet, if you look into his life, there is an iron logic…
A romantic story of a family of clowns, the birth of their circus numbers, told by the main characters themselves, clowns Dolly and Domino. As in any family, there are problems here. Not all of them develop easily and naturally, as in the circus arena. But great love for each other, for their profession, for the art to which their lives are dedicated, helps them cope with all problems.
The film tells about one of the most beautiful love stories of the 20th century. According to everyone who witnessed the relationship between the famous French actress Marina Vlady and the great Russian poet and actor Vladimir Vysotsky, it was that extraordinary love that we usually read about only in books. Marina Vladi herself will share her memories in an exclusive interview. The film contains rare documentary footage with Vladimir Vysotsky.