Everybody gathers: Richard Gere confesses, Milos Bikovic jumps off a cliff.

The Trans-Siberian Express is making a stop in Russian cinemas. The most anticipated movie of this year - a large-scale detective action film "Red Silk" about spy intrigue in the fight for secret documents, which are carried by train across Russia - has been released in wide distribution. Olga Lerman and Anna Mikhalkova take turns reincarnating as Catherine the Great in a new documentary about the empress. Richard Gere plays a dying director in the drama "Oh, Canada" from "Taxi Driver" author Paul Schrader. Captain Hook, played by Roman Kurtzyn, tries to rein in his younger sister, a kid hockey player. And Indian director Payal Kapadia is receiving rave reviews from movie critics for "Everything We See as Light." "Izvestia" - about the main novelties of the upcoming weekend in the movie.

"Red Silk" 16 +

Directed by Andrei Volgin. Starring : Milos Bikovich, Gleb Kalyuzhny, Elena Podkaminskaya, Zheng Hanyi, Yaroslav Mogilnikov, Gosha Kutsenko, Dmitry Kulichkov, Irina Alferova, Svetlana Chuikina, Zhargal Badmatsyrenov, Yang Zihua, Huang Haonan, Zheng Lun.

1927. Across Russia, the Trans-Siberian Express carries secret documents that are of special importance to Russian-Chinese relations and can change the course of history. Therefore, the papers become the target of foreign spies and professional assassins who infiltrate the train under the guise of ordinary passengers. Could the enemy be hiding under the mask of a countess of venerable years, a harmless waiter of a restaurant car, an interpreter or a former Tsarist agent?

For pavilion shooting were erected cars of the train in life-size. However, in the picture action is not limited to the train. The project was filmed in Moscow, at extremely low temperatures at Lake Baikal, in the Pskov and Leningrad regions and even in China. For actress Zheng Hanyi "Red Silk" was the debut in the movie. She was accompanied by experienced colleagues: Milos Bikovich, Gleb Kalyuzhny, Elena Podkaminskaya, Gosha Kutsenko, Yaroslav Mogilnikov, Irina Alferova and others. Most of the stunts actors performed independently. In one of the scenes they, for example, had to jump from a high cliff.

"Oh, Canada" 18+

Directed by: Paul Schroeder. Starring: Richard Gere, Uma Thurman, Jacob Elordi, Victoria Hill, Michael Imperioli, Caroline Devernay, Penelope Mitchell, Kristin Froseth, Peter Benson

The picture was nominated for the "Palme d'Or" at the last Cannes Film Festival. The director was Paul Schrader - the author of the script of the legendary "Taxi Driver", awarded the main prize of the competition in 1976. The director shot his new work in memory of his friend, writer Russell Banks. The plot was based on his book "Predestined". Schrader and previously screened Banks. In 1997, the screens came out the drama "Grief", shot on the novel of the same name of the writer and brought James Coburn "Oscar".

Leonard Fry, played by Richard Gere (and in his youth - Jacob Elordi, known to us for "Euphoria" and "Priscilla") - a celebrated documentary filmmaker. Now he himself is to become the hero of the movie. Severely ill, he agrees to an interview-confession in the presence of his wife Emma (Uma Thurman) to tell her and the world his story unvarnished.

"Catherine the Great" 12+

Directed by Morad Abdel-Fattah. Starring : Olga Lerman, Anna Mikhalkova, Evgeny Shvarts, Evgeny Kharitonov, Viktor Dobronravov, Hussein Dilber, Daria Levina, Vladimir Kotov, Alexander Klyukvin, Miroslav Kharin.

Catherine the Great is one of the favorite historical images of cinematographers. At different times on the screen in the role of the empress appeared Marina Alexandrova, Yulia Snigir, Svetlana Kryuchkova and, of course, Elle Fanning. In the new fiction-documentary drama Empress played by Anna Mikhalkova and Olga Lerman. The tape continues the cycle of historical projects "Rus" about the events and personalities that stood at the origins of modern Russia. "Catherine the Great" will be a direct continuation of the movie "Peter I. The Last Tsar and the First Emperor" and "Empresses".

After the era of palace coups, a new bright historical figure appears - Catherine II. Even at the age of 14, she learned that she was destined to become the bride of Peter III and the mother of the future heir. But with all her determination and persistence in the status of just the emperor's wife, she quickly became cramped. The German aristocrat saw the potential of the Russian Empire and dreamed of realizing her ideas.

"Captain Hook" 6+

Directed by: Maxim Maximov. Starring : Roman Kortsyn, Eva Smirnova, Sergei Stepin, Stepan Devonin, Olga Tumaykina, Stanislav Solomatin, Mark-Malik Murashkin, Svetlana Korchagina, Jan Tsapnik, Jan Lukashevich.

"Captain Hook" - a full-length sequel to the series "Hook" 2021 with Yuri Kolokolnikov in the title role. In the new version, the creators have gone in the direction of family movies. Now ex-hockey player Krukov is played by Roman Kurtzyn. In the team with him - young Eva Smirnova.

Nikita Kryukov, it seems, in general, everything around him is dissatisfied, and only give him a reason to flare up. Because of his uncontrollable anger, the former successful hockey player ended his sports career and then his agency career. With his family, too, relations are not the warmest. With his mother he cut off any communication after she married another man after the death of his father. The news of her death, however, forces Krukov to return to his native land and discover that it was all a joke by his fidgety younger sister, a hockey player and at the same time his big fan.

"Everything We See as Light" 18+

Directed by Payal Kapadia. Starring Kani Kusruti, Divya Prabha, Chhaya Kadam, etc.

The film by Indian documentary filmmaker Payal Kapadia premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2024, where it won the Grand Prix. The picture was highly appreciated by foreign critics - 100% positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes. They note the talent of Kapadia, who made her first full-length feature film, well-developed secondary characters, and compare the effect of watching it to a balm.

The story centers around two nurses in a Mumbai hospital. Prabha is married. True, her husband is seen only at the wedding that the families arranged. Afterward, he left for Germany and hasn't even called for a year. Her young friend Anu says: "I couldn't do that." She is secretly dating a young man with whom she has to find secret places to meet each time.