Russian TV series love to show nature. As soon as something out of the ordinary happens, the camera switches to the outside world. In other words, as soon as the director realizes that he has nothing to say, Russian birch trees, fields, rivers, paths, fishing lines and spikelets in the field immediately appear in the frame. Because Motherland.

An ordinary office of a small office: in a homely furnished studio room there are a couple of armchairs, tables, a board with ideas, a built-in kitchen, shelves with books, paintings on the walls, stationery scattered around. Two employees are loudly arguing about something, suddenly interrupted, one - Misha - goes out into the corridor, into a typical faceless lobby of an office building, and opens the door to the men's toilet.

Svetlana, 41 years old, sales manager: The music is too creaky and ringing, it really hurts the ears. And there is too much of it, distracting from viewing. Nina, 18 years old, student: I wouldn’t watch the second episode, because who the criminal is is already clear from the first.

Perhaps the main feature of all Russian TV series is that they talk to the viewer directly, without any hidden meanings. If the show is called “The Heart of a Star,” then it will be about the heart of a dead star—naturally, a physical organ. And if the series is called "Hugging the Sky," don't be surprised if at some point one of the characters tries to hug the sky for real. This also applies to translations: the English “Broadchurch” about a murder in a beach town became “Murder on the Beach”.

"4400" Plot The producer of the original series gave the go-ahead for the radical divergence of “The Others” from the original plot already from the middle of the first season. To please the large female audience of the channel, the romantic lines have been strengthened and a backstory for the acquaintance of the main characters has been invented. World Instead of the National Security Agency, a special department is investigating mysterious events without reference to any real department.

Tue 14/10 — Sun 09/11 An entertaining exhibition of photographs of different genres and eras, collected according to the themes of the EXHIBITION This exhibition is a typical example of a good commercial project, and so what, it’s not every day in Moscow that you see such a variety of styles, genres and subjects. Facts and fiction, as the organizers explain, are two main concepts, the totality of which defines the essence of photography as an art.

Russian TV series heroes do not have feelings of anxiety or prolonged depression. There is only a glass of vodka, a good drinking companion and a carpet in the background. It even turns out funny: as soon as something tragic happens in the fate of the main character, the carpet grows on the wall, the alcoholic T-shirt is put on by itself, the bottle with a glass crystallizes on the small kitchen table, and only automatically takes on the characteristic drunken position.

Dystopia with Antonio Banderas against robots MOVIE 2044, the planet is turning into a desert, the birth rate is falling, robots have entered people's everyday life. A robotics insurance agent (shaven-headed Banderas) discovers that some androids are not following protocols and are speaking in rebellion against humanity. Independent Spanish sci-fi with a hackneyed plot in the spirit of Isaac Asimov's stories.

Nostalgic dances about a plane crash and love THEATER In the performance of Sasha Tolstosheva, a debut student of Yuri Pogrebnichko, they read Pushkin and sing Vizbor, listen to The Beatles and dance Fred Astaire, and at the core is one of the earliest plays by Edward Radzinsky - “104 Pages about Love”. The play is about a flight attendant and an inventor; in the play there is a longing for the utopian 60s, where all the main words are replaced by dances.

Svetlana , 26 years old, supply department specialist: Absolute nonsense, a complete waste of time, no plot, not the slightest thought. Well, jokes, but other than jokes, there is nothing. Anna , 43 years old, dishware sales manager: I could turn it on if I were washing dishes in the kitchen. Nina , 18 years old, student: This is just a rare series that is easy to imagine filmed in Russia.

It was The Guardian that launched Snowden's materials - therefore Harding has the moral right to publish a “quick book” about him; The problem is that there was a request for a book, but there was clearly not enough material. There are a lot of biographical nuances, and clear answers to the main questions (so it was Assange who gave Snowden the idea to go to Moscow - or not?

Stamps The favorite heroine of Russian screenwriters is a girl with glasses who, as soon as she takes them off, becomes a beauty. This was the case in “Don’t Be Born Beautiful,” and it is the same now in “Angelica” (though here the main character has excess weight instead of glasses). They constantly find themselves in idiotic situations, even though they are supposed to be very smart. They get out of any absurdity, showing remarkable courage and strength of character.

Schubert from the nineties, conducts the orchestra Teodor Currentzis CONCERTS In Schubert’s time, there was no electroacoustics, no Schoenbergian “speech”, no concrete music - composer Hans Zehnder undertook to reinvent Schubert’s gloomy psychodrama “Winterreise” in the conditions of 1993. The result is a truly wonderful and adventurous piece, which does not violate the author’s space, but delicately fits the romantic hero into the present time.

A typical representative of the Russian series. Not exactly a geek, more like an ordinary guy in a bright cardigan and horn-rimmed glasses. He is the object of everyone's ridicule, dreams of beauties, but the scriptwriters continually slip him non-greasy, attractive heroines for the sake of new gags.

Olga , 30 years old, project manager: The characters are impressive. Tatyana , 36 years old, manager of the office equipment service department: I’m a little confused. Who are these people in the forest at the beginning? Why were they shown to us? Nina , 18 years old, student: I would read the book, otherwise everything is somehow chaotic, it’s easy to lose the thread. Natalya , 26 years old, network engineer: I’m not sure it will help.