Aristarkh Venes

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.  (more)

Eleven comedic vignettes featuring conversations – some important, some less so – held in restaurants over coffee and cigarettes (how quickly time flies – cigarettes are banned in Russia’s restaurants now). The conversations are candid, and even veer into the ...  (more)

Igor, a furniture store manager, tries to figure out what happened during the corporate event which resulted his store to be completely destroyed.  (more)

Masha Smirnova is a young girl who came to Moscow to conquer the big city. Here she finds a way to make all here wishes come true. But for other people this way is not so pleasant, sometimes even painful.  (more)

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Contemporary Moscow. A talented gambler gathers a team of people with supernatural powers to win big at a casino. But they find a much stronger mystical rival.  (more)

The agents of the Federal Security Service of Russia and the US Secret Service are forced to work together to prevent a full-scale international crisis.  (more)

Contemporary Moscow. A publisher hires a band of hack writers to kill a famous author so she can steal his book. They find that committing a murder in real life is not quite as simple as writing about one in a thriller novel.  (more)

Provincial town near Moscow. Here in a large communal apartment several families live. Each has its own concerns, its interests, its troubles and joys. A communal apartment is not just a habitat. This is a kind of section of society. They are all very different, ...  (more)

Emers are superhumans endowed with unusual abilities. They can control human emotions and feel no pain. However, they are unable to truly love. One day, their world is under threat, and Denis, a young half-breed emer, goes in search of the chosen one who can save ...  (more)