Samad Mansurov

Life Sucks

Yakut and Polina are a modern-day Romeo and Juliet. He is the son of a detective. She is the prettiest girl in her class. It could be a great romantic story but there is a problem. Instead of Verona, our teens live in Orphanage #7 – Life truly Sucks. It only gets worse when they decide to rob a local crime boss. When things don’t go quite to plan, they have hit the road and leave behind the place they’ve called home for several years. This roller coaster called life takes them on a dramatic journey……but only time will tell if it has a happy ending!

Games 80

After another scandal, the son of a Soviet functionary is sent to the organizing committee of the Olympic Games-80 for correction, where he begins to work as a simple volunteer. His boss is the daughter of a high—ranking military man, and she is not going to make any concessions to a spoiled guy from a rich family. Once on the other side of the world event poster, he will meet different people who will change his outlook on life — athletes, coaches and other volunteers. Through their eyes, he will see all the drama around the preparation for the big competition, which was on the verge of collapse.

Understand. Forgive

Each episode is a fictional, self-contained story about difficult family relationships.

Yasha and Leonid Brezhnev

Yasha recently retired after serving many years at a factory, with a highlight of his career being a delegate of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1976. Yet his future is left unknown when he emerges in new realities that he finds difficult to accept. The world has changed after the collapse of the Soviet Union, yet he tries to hold on to what once was. Thus enters former Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev. Appearing like Yasha’s alter ego, he guides Yasha, giving amusing commentary and voicing what Yasha should say or do. Brezhnev’s presence gives way for more historical leaders that Yasha idolises to arrive. Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, Josip Broz Tito and Erich Honecker, and even the African dictator Jean Bedel-Bokassa all make an appearance! When Yasha takes an oath of loyalty to them, this creates trouble for his family.

The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Saga of the Love of Genghis Khan's Daughter

The third part of Bulat Mansurov's planned epic film series; “The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars". The film is dedicated to the formation of the Ancient Russian state and Eurasian culture under the rule of Genghis Khan.

Grandfather Mazai and Others

Grandfather Mazai saves not only hares, but also other famous heroes — Mumu, the Persian princess, Robinson, and even the Titanic.

SVOi. A Ballad of War

Summer 2022. A group of our volunteers — drone reconnaissance operators — led by an officer with the call sign "Moscow" arrives for a rotation in a small village somewhere in the Zaporizhzhia region, practically on the front line. There, they establish contact with a local family who refused to abandon their home. Despite forecasts from command — which considers this direction secondary and expects the enemy's main assault elsewhere — the enemy launches a breakthrough here, at dawn. "Moscow's" group must carry out their combat mission, with almost no chance of making it out alive.

Пастбища богов

The film's central premise is that a person only truly understands their true nature in extreme situations. The harsh conditions of the wild Pamir Mountains, where the film's main action unfolds, reveal the deepest foundations of the protagonists' personalities and motivations, forcing them to "wake up" from the mindless daily grind of the big city and make a crucial choice that can mean the difference between life and death. It is here, in the Pamir Mountains, at an altitude of several thousand meters, far from civilization, that a person understands who they are. And receives what they deserve...

Take Her Across the Maidan