Movies: Vasiliy Gorchakov

18 directors, 18 novels, 18 short stories about Moscow......

Petersburg. A Selfie comprises seven novellas about the beautiful city of St. Petersburg, Russia, shot by female directors. The film tells a story of a real, living and breathing city, rather than a mythical phantasm. Each novella tells its own story...

A chronicle of Russia's transition from communism to capitalism....

An unpicked pilot for a web-series, Pavel Grinyov explains the VHS culture of late USSR and post-Soviet nineties and the phenomenon of voiceover translation. Main example provided is a voiceover translation of Back to the Future (1985) by Vasiliy Gor...

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The matriarchal clan led by gorgeous Margarita enters a turbulent period when her son loses his beloved fiancée. Using the structure of a repetitive ritual, the action spans years but takes place mostly during the annual gatherings of Margarita's ext...

Young police detective Faina tries to experiment with herself in order to meet her dead love....

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“Time… Hours… Minutes… Seconds… Time does not exist, we invented it ourselves. This is a beautiful illusion that fills our life with mystical meaning. The whole of human history is a search for a loophole in time, a desire to use Him not against ones...

Alexey is shooting a movie about himself. He is in search of a boyfriend. Everything would be alright, if Alexey's mother could accept his sexuality. Alexey comes to visit her and admits that he likes boys, saying 'Don't you anticipate any grandchild...

Several short stories tell the story of the complex relationships between difficult children and their parents....

Renata Litvinova's short film for Gucci. Once in a year a clan of magicians gathers to "make their most important wishes and do some magic". To make it all happen everyone should put their letters in a special Gucci bag....