"Billion"

The life of billionaire Matthew Levin is similar to a sharp-detective story. Moscow Scrooge McDuck does not want to share his fortune with children and transfers the rights to his own capital to a business partner. He dies, and the whole legacy of Levin goes to the businesslike daughter of a companion. Left on the street, the banker appeals for help to the offspring and invites them to rob her own bank - of course, for a substantial reward.

"Billion" is the seventh full-length film by Russian director Roman Prygunov. Many people know the director of the two parts of "Duhless", who glorified Danil Kozlovsky as well. Most will also recall the recent TNT-Premier noir multiseries detective "Dead Lake."

In addition to Mashkov, Daniel Spivakovsky, Maria Mironova, Alexandra Bortich, Gela Meskhi and Dmitry Astrakhan are involved in the film.

"Red Code" (Red Joan)


Librarian Joan Stanley leads a measured life in a modest house away from the bustle of the city. Once in the house to the pensioner officers of special services of Great Britain come and accuse her of high treason. During the interrogation, it turns out that Stanley, trying to prevent the technical superiority of one country over others and the start of the Third World War, decided to transfer to the USSR British secret documents on the creation of a nuclear bomb.

The screen version of Jenny Rooney's The Red Joan, based on the real events, was the second full-length work of British theater director Travor Nunn in the last 23 years (“The Twelfth Night or Anything”). The film premiered on the margins of the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2018.

In her mature years, Joan Stanley played Oscar-winning Judy Dench (“Shakespeare in Love”); in her youth, Briton Sophie Cookson (“Kingsman: The Secret Service”).

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“Nureyev. The White Crow


On April 20, a biographical drama “Nureyev. White Raven "about the life and work of the ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev. The film with many different flashbacks mainly affects the tours of the famous dancer in Paris, from where the artist decided not to return to the USSR.

For the first time about how to make a biopic about Nureyev, director Rafe Fiennes (familiar to the viewer from the role of the legendary villain Lord Volde de Mort from the film adaptation of Harry Potter novels) thought almost 20 years ago - after reading Julie Kavan's biographical book.

“The energy of this young dancer, his thirst to get to know himself in a creative and personal way, his strength of mind and purposefulness — that's what got me hooked in him,” admitted Fiennes.

The main role in the film was offered to play the lead singer of the Tatar Academic State Opera and Ballet Theater named after Musa Jalil Oleg Ivenko. According to the artist, he deleted the first invitation to the casting on the social network, deciding that he was dealing with a “bad draw”. As a result, Fyens himself called for Ivenko's tests.

The caste also involved the premier of the KS Moscow Academic Musical Theater. Stanislavsky and V.I. Nemirovich-Danchenko Sergey Polunin.

"Behind the scenes"


“Behind the Scenes” is an almanac of comedic short films that shed light on the life of theatrical figures. Viewers will be told a few stories, the heroes of which are trying to solve a variety of problems with which the inhabitants of the backstage occasionally face.

The short films presented were directed by Ilya Yermolov, Igor Kahramanov, Evelina Barseghyan and Narkas Iskandarova. The roles in them were performed by Yuri Stoyanov, Pavel Derevyanko, Karina Razumovskaya and Victoria Verberg.

"Freud robbery" (Ruben Brandt, Collector)

In his debut feature-length animated film, director Milorad Krstic, also acted as a producer, screenwriter and artist. The world premiere of the film took place in the summer of 2018. At the time of writing, the Robbery’s aggregator of professional reviews of Rotten Tomatoes had 83% of “freshness” (audience rating - 86%).

According to the plot of the tape, fashionable psychoanalyst Ruben Brandt, who is widely practicing art therapy, successfully treats criminals. However, he himself suffers from nightmares, in which he invariably perishes at the hands of characters in works of art. Brandt determines for himself the way to heal and uses his clients-thieves to help him: the team steals a dozen paintings from famous museums of the world.

Krstic admits that he specially plotted the plot of the tape around the works of art. The director stressed that the name of the main character refers to the Dutch artists Peter Rubens and Rembrandt van Rijn.

“Crime, psychology and art - these are the three pillars of this film,” the director explained.