The crisis of middle age ... The crisis in creativity ...
Is it normal to make films "normal"? Or, nevertheless, you need to shoot well, if not perfectly, so that you can immediately see: the director wanted to speak out, it's important to tell, he did not shoot the film for the sake of money, for the sake of art.
But that's just where to get it, the art of it, the idea is high, if nothing goes into your head?
There are many such martyrs in the director's direction, as in any other creative profession, who try to create something worthwhile, try and try ... But it does not work out!
But if you look from the outside, then all of these creators are ... normal. Even if "something is not" in their life or in creativity, it is still possible to live and it is necessary, and it's time to think about the next film!
"About the unfortunate and the happy, about good and evil, about fierce hatred and holy love ..."
The horse and its master. One worked as much as he could. Another kutil and squandered the state.
The old gelding tells the sad story of his life.
He was not lucky - he was born piebald, so he was rejected at the stud farm.
The young prince, a handsome officer, bought the horse. He liked the smooth running of the horse.
This master was strict and cruel, like his groom.
Once he put his horse on the run. Merin did not disappoint the owner, but then the prince drove him, catching up with the departed mistress.
Fate was unmerciful to the horse. He changed many masters - from the gypsy to the clerk.
And the life of the prince did not work out. He was ruined, he lived, borrowing from friends.
But the gelding warmly remembered the first owner. And he did not even recognize the decrepit horse when he saw him in the stable of a friend.
The last days of the horse were bitter.
"He was old, they were young; He was thin, they were full; He was bored, they were cheerful. Therefore, he was quite a stranger, an outsider, a completely different being, and one could not spare him ... "
Do not believe your eyes, they lie. Only faith will reveal the truth.
When there is little faith in the heart, many prejudices are born. And then they appear - our enemies.
A man has many enemies. Despair, boredom, anger. But our most terrible enemy is doubt. Because of him, we lose everything. Missing something very important that they could get.
One of the busiest nights in history. The night before the Resurrection. The most terrible happened - Christ crucified.
What awaits all ahead? How can one believe that a resurrected person is a Teacher? To gain true faith, one must take this one painful step. A step from fear to faith.
Where to get the strength for this?
How to believe in a miracle and us? Modern people, mired in a world of war and cruelty, where everything wonderful perishes at the root.
Enough to discard these thoughts. It's time to find answers to the most important questions. It's time to wake up.
Can we still love without a doubt?
Even if you do not believe God, he believes in you.
Do you want to look inside the old music box?
In this wonderful fantasy of the vocal works of Schumann and Schubert, words and music are equivalent.
Four singers in bright clothes enthusiastically sing in German under the enchanting sounds of guitar, flute and piano.
Strong voices of girls want to compare with great musical instruments.
Each of the elegant performers creates their own unique image for the sad or very unusual funny romances that we are accustomed to.
By the elusive movements of her hands or eyes, it becomes clear what she sings so heartfeltly.
The vocal performance of each aria is beyond praise.
This is the classical music that you want to listen to again and again.
Another talented director of Ivan Popovsky.
"I stretch my dreams under your feet, go easy on them, my you trample on dreams."
Which is better - to condemn the innocent or to justify the offender?
Each juror must ask such a question.
They must decide on the fate of a young guy from a poor family.
He is accused of murdering his father, and he does not plead guilty. Could he have committed this terrible crime?
How little time! And you need to understand in detail the testimony of witnesses. Neighbors do not cause trust. Some of them could be mistaken.
Men fiercely argue, even shout at each other.
It is extremely difficult to come to a single point of view - they are too different in age, education, life experience and character.
The performance amazes with the heat of passion and excellent acting.
Twelve pieces of paper, twelve chances to kill a man ... Or save?
An unusual story of an ordinary family.
Children have long grown up and fled from the parent's nest. What can collect all family members in their home? Mysterious disappearance of the father!
Three daughters and three of their beloved come to the aid of the mother to find the head of the family - a teacher and part-time poet. He is an elderly alcoholic, very well-read and educated.
Once he gave his beloved wife a collection of poems, she told him - three children.
But in search of their father they find a heap of family secrets, a tangle of mutual claims and grievances.
Close-up shows the love of loved ones. But not simple, warm, warming the soul. A special love of cultural and educated people. Love with a touch of snobbery.
It turns out that there can be too much love. Now they understand why they bought houses at a distance from each other. Just to not suffocate from this mutual feeling.
They say "I love you", read "you have to love me", the phrase "I missed you" means "you owe me for my love."
It's amazing how much interesting things can be hidden behind other people's doors.
Do you think that you know yourself and have completely taken place in your life? Try to spend a week with all members of your family.
What a stupid, absurd war - neither to give nor take a cabaret.
The beginning of the First World War. The Germans want to fight, for them the war is a valorous adventure, a heroic adventure. The French are also ready. For them, military actions are a series of romantic feats and beautiful victories.
What neither those nor the others expected was the long, painfully prolonged hell in which they walked. The pernicious days of shooting, when those who yesterday played together in football today are mercilessly killing each other. Terrible days of trench wait, when you have to lie in the mud, tolerate lice and diseases and reap, wait, wait ... When is the end?
It is not for nothing that it is said that at the end of the war soldiers often do not remember why they went to her at first. War erases all human, including memory, leaving only a raid of inhuman breath of bloodshed.
Bazarov did not fit in the village life, or he planted the turmoil with his nihilism, that is, the negation of everything and a contemptuous attitude towards principles, or simply bored everyone. He believed in one physiology and matter, and she overcame him: first, earthly love, then typhus.
And in the meantime, the rest of the village paradise lives sweetly: ladies gather flowers, gentlemen conduct intelligent conversations, and enjoy everything with life. Kirsanov Sr. has long been happy in love, and it's time to get married. Younger, too, love smiled, he found his Katenka ...
Two pairs, two weddings - and why should they quarrel, fathers and children? Let them live happily, they live.
Only the one to whom everything is not cute, who has always opposed everyone, tragically finished his life ...
Here Hamlet wanders around the stage with a volume in his hand. He, the actor giving a presentation in Elsinore, the prince only on the stage. But, as befits an actor, Hamlet lives his role to the end. So, learning that the present king, Hamlet's uncle, treacherously killed his brother-king, Hamlet's father, in order to deceive the throne, Hamlet decides to take revenge on his uncle. In his decision, however, he is not sure, and he constantly fluctuates between the notorious "to be" and "not to be," and only in the final, dying, dares to pierce his uncle with a deadly rapier.
So, the story line is true to the Shakespearean text, full of questions and insoluble mysteries. However, the fact that Hamlet is actually a lyceum and fulfills his role without parting with the book makes it possible to say that one truly Shakespearian problem is particularly prominently displayed and grotesquely explicated in the production: do we choose the role that we will play? If not, can we even stage it, arrange accents, creatively beat events, scenery, costumes? Or all that remains for us is to act, frantically giving in to the fact that we live, and asking as little as possible about the question, but who has invented all this, if, say, we fell for revenge for our father and die in the finale of our tragedy?
"I dreamed of a garden in a wedding dress, in this garden we are together with you. The stars in the sky, the stars on the sea, the stars and in my heart. "
They peacefully sing romances, but the shadow of the coming revolution has already fallen on such a cozy house. The clouds are gathering. The storm is just around the corner.
Guests are chatting on the summer veranda. All my family, the manufacturer's family, their friends and acquaintances gathered. The head of the family soon intends to take his sick wife to Yalta to Chekhov, hoping that the former doctor will cure his wife of consumption.
They are waiting for the famous singer, who promised to sing Russian romances for them. And they themselves love to sing, sincerely, captivating.
Almost twenty songs! From the most famous to rarely performed, on the verses of Lermontov, Pushkin, Tyutchev and unknown authors.
Some of them, for example, "The Black Shawl", will not be sung, but played out as a mischievous theatrical performance.
The guests gathered at the dacha veranda on the day of Chekhov's death. Very soon - the first Russian revolution.
But there is still time to sing a captivating romance about the first dates.
"Leaves are a whisper or wind gusts sensitive soul I greedily catch. The eyes are deep, the mouth is silent: dear, oh dear, I love. "
On the eve of winter and the expectation of summer.
We all live in anticipation of a miracle. Waiting for happiness and love.
What are we just ready to do to achieve this? And then, to save and keep?
Is it possible to call a tangle of passion, hatred, melancholy and romance - love? And what does true love look like?
They were ready for anything for the sake of love. They were ready to commit mortal sin for the sake of their feelings.
Life is a worthy price for love? If love is an infinite good, can it atone for murder?
In this endless series of difficult questions, they simply try to be happy. But is it possible to build happiness on the misfortune of another?
Once a former classmate, now a district policeman calls her a summons. Her husband is missing. However, the spouse did not disappear. He's just no more, she killed him. Now no one will beat her, and there are no more barriers to their love.
But the ugly reality does not give a chance to sincere feelings. Madness comes with the ghost of her husband, now caring, sober and worried about the happiness of the children. Is he now alive than all living people?
Such a different - the love of people ...
Love it? People?
Becoming a father is easy. It's hard to be a father.
Forgive an impudent parent of adult children? He had not seen them for fifteen years!
Dad left the family when the children were small. The boy stayed behind the eldest - my mother drank.
Lived brother and sister is difficult. The main thing is that they survived. Now they are adults.
My brother has a small business. There is no family.
The sister is married, but on the verge of a divorce. Therefore, he is friends with the bottle. In the world of television, it's difficult to keep a husband.
The news that my father would like to meet with them was a complete surprise to them.
They will show him that they are doing well!
The brother arranged with an occasional woman. He will introduce her to his father as his wife. But who could have imagined that she would stick her nose into everything?
Father came to them with his new wife. Will he find a common language with his children?
He needs to hurry - he will have an operation.
Lyrical comedy about how difficult it is for children and parents to understand each other.
Parents who are lucky with children are usually children who are lucky with their parents.