Tigran Keosayan

Tigran Edmondovich Keosayan (January 4, 1966, Moscow — September 26, 2025, ibid.) was a Russian film director, screenwriter, producer, film and television actor, music video director, and television presenter of Armenian descent, known for his anti-Ukrainian, sexist, racist, chauvinistic statements and propaganda. Author and host of the Russian satirical political program "International Sawmill." Son of Soviet film director and screenwriter Edmond Keosayan, husband of Margarita Simonyan. In 2022, Armenia declared Keosayan persona non grata due to his propaganda statements and banned him from entering the country.

Works

The Heat

Four good folks from schools got reunion in a summer café on the bank of River Moskva, and they had an unthinkable trouble to deal with check, though one of them is so rich. One by one, a friend left the table to find solution and everyone of them met with different stories. The rich one got caught, ended up in jail for a night with the help from other folks. Friendship never ends...

Release Date2006-12-28

Charactersd Flowers seller

Vote Count32

Crimean Bridge. Made With Love!

A Russian propaganda film about the Crimean Bridge being built in Kerch. Dima, a young and daring builder, has a hobby: from every change of female students-archeologists choose the most beautiful and win it. And this time would have happened the same, if not for Moscow PR man. He brought to the construction of television crews from America, and, of course, it is he, a luxurious careerist on a white convertible that will win the Varya's heart. While the two contenders charm her, the hot Caucasian Bernard Is trying to realize his dream to marry an American and go to Hollywood.

Release Date2018-11-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd

Vote Count13

To Remember

Release Date1993-12-09

Charactersd Narrator

Episode Count1

Vote Count7

Joker

The ancient northern monastery has a guide Tatyana. Two former classmates seek her favors: medical student Ivan and young businessman Yves (that is, also Ivan). As a result of a fall from a balloon, the girl is in a coma. Only Ivan Voronov can deduce from this state if he is near. He decides to help his beloved by entering into intimacy with her. The nurse who discovered them reports to the police. Ivan was arrested as a "maniac", and the life of TANI is under threat again ... "

Release Date1991-11-03

Charactersd Ашир

Vote Count1

Любовница

Release Date2005-02-21

Charactersd Sergey Zemtsov

Episode Count4

Vote Count1

Империя иллюзий: Братья Сафроновы

Release Date2015-02-21

Charactersd Self - Judge

Episode Count8

The President and his Granddaughter

Moscow Year New Year's Eve 1987. In the 25th hospital on duty are the obstetrician and the nurse. They make the rounds, after which sit down to celebrate the New Year. Suddenly, the hospital ambulance arrives with a pregnant woman - daughter of the general, who had an accident and she started the premature birth. Despite the exhortations of doctors that gestational age is a tragic turn for the child, a fierce general, threatening with a pistol, forcing him to take delivery. A child is born dead, and intimidated doctor decides to replace it for a living. On the same day another woman gave birth to twin-girls, one of which is changed. Ironically, the two girls called Masha.

Release Date2000-12-31

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count12

7 Days

It is the story of seven days in the life of the 70-year-old Peter who learns that he has lung sarcoma and that there is a faint hope that in a week the diagnosis may be ruled out by a medical luminary from Moscow. Peter spends the seven days summing up the results of his life which he considers worthless, in which he could not start a family, earn money, save his reputation. But time and again the events in which he becomes involved and which are filled with smiles, sadness, human destinies, let the viewer realize that the protagonist’s life is far from worthless.

Release Date2025-08-21

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3

A Hare over the Abyss

Once upon a time, in the seventy-first year of the last century, the relived two bureaucrats in Moldova: the First Secretary and the Second Secretary of the Communist party. The Second Secretary was more important than the First Secretary, since he had befriended the Tsar of the whole Soviet Union - Leonid Brezhnev. The Moldovan Republic is preparing for a visit from the great Brezhnev when Lautar, a poor musician, finally gets up the nerve to ask the local gypsy Baron for his daughters hand in marriage. To everyone surprise, the baron gives the couple his blessing, but on one condition: that Lautar acquire Brezhnev's personal limousine as a gift for the bride, and that Brezhnev come to the wedding

Release Date2006-02-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

Katka and Shiz

Release Date1992-11-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

The Directory of Death

Little-known writer Kamenetsky-Shchedrin composes intricate detective stories on the topic of new Russian life. The writer draws inspiration from the stories that actually happen around him. Each novel by the author becomes a new plot for the series, in which new characters appear. Invariably, only the writer himself and his wife, who is always interfering with creation, are present in every story.

Release Date1999-01-01

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Ландыш серебристый 2

Release Date2005-01-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count12

Immortals

The story of four friends, former fellow soldiers from Afghanistan, who meet on the eve of Victory Day to see off a comrade on his last journey.

Release Date2022-02-23

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count7

Poor Sasha

A young girl wants to rob her mother's bank in order to have her to leave work and come home for a New Year Eve.

Release Date1997-12-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count27

Anatoli Yefremovich Novoseltsev works in a ratings company, whose director is an unattractive and bossy woman. An old friend of his, Yuri Grigorievich Samokhvalov, who gets appointed assistant director, wants to make Novoseltsev the manager but encounters objections from Ludmila Prokopievna Kalugina, the director. Samokhvalov then advises Novoseltsev to lightly hit on the boss. Ironically, Novoseltsev and Kalugina fall in love with each other...

Release Date2011-03-17

Vote Count47

Projectorparishilton

Four hosts discuss some current news and comment on different issues in politics and economics, similar to 7 Tage, 7 Köpfe. The show's name is a reference to the 80s TV program "Прожектор Перестройки" - a program that was discussing current events on Soviet television during the times of Perestroika - and American socialite Paris Hilton, who, according to Svetlakov, symbolizes lack of taste. Thus, the name of the show implies that this is a current events program that shouldn't be taken seriously.

Release Date2008-05-17

Episode Count1

Vote Count11

A Dream on a Summer Morning

A young guy gets caught on a currency transaction, changing rubles to dollars. But in his mind, he has long overcome not only state borders, but also the laws of gravity.

Release Date1989-01-01