Roman Kantor (Writing)

Extraordinary

Eight-year-old Nikolai suffers from a congenital illness that leaves him unable to walk or speak. His doctors and even his own mother, Tatyana, have given up hope of treating his ailment. When Tatyana’s new friend Yuri tries using his own physiotherapy techniques to treat Nikolai, he discovers that Nikolai has a gift for music and teaches him to play the piano. With every note he learns and every melody he masters, Nikolai’s condition improves. He not only gains mobility, he also becomes an outstanding musician. Nikolai and Yuri travel to China together to take part in a piano competition, with a view to taking the grand prize. This is a humor-packed story about the healing power of music and fatherly love.

Release Date:2024-03-28

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:9

The Master and Margarita

Moscow, 1930s. A prominent writer's works are suddenly censored by the Soviet state and the premiere of his theatrical play about Pontius Pilate is canceled. He's kicked out of the Soviet Writer's Union, and quickly turns into an outcast with no means to survive. Inspired by Margarita - his lover, he begins working on a new novel in which all the characters are satirically reinterpreted from his life. The novel's central character is Woland - a mystical dark force who visits Moscow to revenge all those who caused the writer's downfall. As the Master sinks himself deeper and deeper into his novel, adding himself and Margarita as characters, he gradually stops noticing as the border between reality and his imagination fades away.

Release Date:2024-01-25

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:66

Aurora

Sasha Zorina, who at the age of 10 became famous throughout the country for her main role in the popular blockbuster "Aurora", 15 years later works as a telephone psychologist at the suicide prevention center, drinks a lot and tries to continue her acting career without much success. When she comes to her senses after a protracted celebration of her 25th birthday, she realizes that she absolutely does not remember the previous four weeks. Trying to reconstruct the events of the month that fell out of her memory, the heroine plunges deeper into her past, where everything turns out to be much scarier and more dangerous than she thought.

Release Date:2022-10-26

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:8

Vote Count:3

Silver Skates

1899, the Christmas-time St.Petersburg. Ice-covered rivers and canals of the capital seethe with festive activities. On the eve of the new century those who should not be destined to meet, come together. They are people from different worlds: Matvey, the son of a lamplighter, whose only treasure is his silver-plated skates; Alice is the daughter of a high-ranking official dreaming of science. Each of them has his own difficult life-story, but having accidentally met they rush forward together in pursuit of their dreams.

Release Date:2020-12-10

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:280

To the Lake

A grim drama that unfolds against the backdrop of a global catastrophe. An unknown new virus turns Moscow into a city of the dead. Money loses its value and those not yet infected struggle desperately for food and survival.

Release Date:2019-11-14

Department:Writing

Job:Scenario Writer

Episode Count:8

Vote Count:242

Vongozero: The Outbreak

A deadly virus of unknown origin has decimated Moscow. Sergey, along with his girlfriend and their autistic son are joined by his exwife, their son and several fellows to escape the quarantine zone lest they suffer a slow and painful death. Somewhere far away, on a desert island in Karelia, there is a cabin- their only chance to start all over again. But the journey will not be an easy one as the deadly virus and interpersonal conflict threaten to pull the group apart.

Release Date:2019-04-21

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:11

The Dead Lake

Experienced Moscow police officer Maksim Pokrovskiy is sent to Northern Russia to investigate the murder of the local Oligarch's daughter.

Release Date:2019-03-14

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Episode Count:8

Vote Count:14

Afternoon Delight

An affluent Hollywood producer spends a pleasant afternoon by the hot tub with his ex-lover, whom he hasn't seen in years, while his friend - a renown photographer - takes headshots of her teenage daughter in the room nearby. It's just another leisurely afternoon. Or isn't it...

Release Date:2019-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Super Family. Better Than Avengers

The continuations of the adventures of Bobrov family all members of which suddenly became superheroes...

Release Date:2017-12-25

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:22

About Love. Adults Only

The second part of the film “About Love”. Moscow, summer 2016. A new lecture, a new lecturer with a new theme: “How to preserve love in the modern world” – and five new stories about love. The heroes still suffer, struggle for love, even more often get into absurd and ridiculous situations, and yet they trust in love even more.

Release Date:2017-09-01

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:41

Six Degrees of Celebration 5

This time on New Year, the favourite heroes of “Yolki” perform the usual nonsense and hope for a miracle. Borya needs to somehow restore family happiness, and for its sake is ready to steal a penguin from his best friend Zhenya. The Skier and Snowboarder have not matured and stage a mad chase for a Christmas tree. Manya learns how to use the Internet in the hope of finding her old love. The professor from Yekaterinburg has settled down, but now he goes mad from jealousy. In the far North a safety engineer must take a risk and, at last, confess his love. The bloggers who remained with- out Internet have to get out of a lift. Well, and the penguin simply needs to sit down urgently on an egg...

Release Date:2016-12-22

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:38

The Good Boy

Contemporary Moscow. Ninth-grader Kolya falls in love with a beautiful young teacher at his high school. The most beautiful girl in the senior class falls in love with him. How will he make his way through this triangle?

Release Date:2016-11-10

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:39

Axes in Bread-loafs

Report on the nightmarish finds in our bread.

Release Date:2009-02-17

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:1

Anna K

Anna Karenina is a socialite and wife of the soon-to-be governor of St. Petersburg, who enters a life-changing love affair with Vronsky, the dashing heir of an aluminum empire.

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1