The Safety Cat: a film based on Anna Jane, the dog Lida and the secrets of the Hermitage

Anna Jane's first film adaptation, "Your Heart Will Be Broken," tells the story of school bullying and secret love. The art hit "Secret Agent" takes you back to the days of the Brazilian military dictatorship. The Hermitage Cats are dealing with ancient Egyptian relics and a magical genie. The boy from 2000 comes to our time and meets several versions of himself in the "Space Dog Lida". Anton Filipenko and Danila Yakushev, armed with guns, wander through the mountains and shoot without a miss. Izvestia has selected new items that are worth buying a ticket for this weekend.

"Secret Agent", 18+

Directed by Kleber Mendonza Filho. Starring: Wagner Moura, Carlos Francisco, Tanya Maria, Roberio Diogenes, Maria Fernanda Candidu

Three hours under the scorching Brazilian sun in the company of a handsome man with fake documents, ruthless assassins, corrupt politicians and a million deceptively ordinary people hiding personal tragedies from prying eyes. Perhaps Brazilian cinema has never become such a major event since the days of The Elite Squad: in 2008, the film won the Golden Bear, and since it was also a strong criminal action movie, the whole world watched it. And the performer of the main role, Wagner Moura, became a national superstar, the local Sergey Bodrov, the conscience of the nation. By the way, he is no less active in politics than in art.

And now we see a slightly aged Moura in the new phenomenal success of Brazilian cinema. For the role of a mysterious loner risking his life in Brazil in the late seventies, when the foundations of the military dictatorship in the country were already shaken and the convulsions of the regime turned to repression, murder and torture. This Brazil is recreated on the screen in such detail that you only need to watch a movie on the big screen, because every little thing in the frame can turn out to be a metaphor or an Easter egg. It's all the more interesting that we're looking at what's happening through the eyes of a Russian cameraman, Evgenia Alexandrova, a native of Leningrad. Perhaps that's why "Secret Agent" doesn't seem exotic, but fits very organically into the heart of the Russian audience.

For more information about the film, which was lauded at Cannes, the Golden Globes and the Oscars, see the Izvestia review.

"Your heart will be broken", 16+

Directed by Mikhail Weinberg. Starring: Veronika Zhuravleva, Daniel Vegas, Alya Mayer, Maxim Saprykin, Evgenia Loza

You may not know who Anna Jane is. Moreover, you have every right if you are not a high school student or if you do not have a business related to books. Because otherwise you would be aware that Anna Jane, aka Anna Potapkina from Krasnoyarsk, has been listed as one of the most published Russian writers for several years. Anna's story is tragic: at the peak of her popularity, she died in 2023 at the age of 35, but her books continue to be published, and her fame is only growing. By the end of 2025, the republished and first-time published novels of the writer were in the first place in sales on marketplaces. On the Internet, the audience of some of them is in the tens of millions.

The film adaptation of the novel "Your Heart will be Broken" immediately took the lead, on Thursday it was in the first place at the Russian box office, beating both holdovers and new items. The heroine of the film is a 17—year-old girl Polina, who was bullied at a new school. She makes arrangements with a local bully, whom everyone is afraid that he will pose as her boyfriend. And the bully, of course, falls in love with Polina. The filmmakers are clearly aiming for an audience like "Twilight" and "Three Meters above the Sky," including viewers of those hits who have long missed something romantic and sentimental.

"Cats of the Hermitage 2. The Mystery of the Egyptian Hall", 6+

Directed by Vasily Rovensky. Starring: Daria Blokhina, Snezhana Samokhina, Roman Kurtsyn, Diomid Vinogradov

The first "Hermitage Cats" were modestly distributed in 2023 and collected a little less than 300 million rubles. But then the film became very popular on the small screen, and the sequel may well be many times more successful. At least, Thursday's preliminary data indicate an interest in the cartoon, which, among the family segment, is going to the collections immediately after "Domovenka Kuzya 2."

The authors chose the theme of Ancient Egypt and play out the plot of "Aladdin", with a magic lamp, a genie, wish fulfillment and other magical elements. So far, it seems that this is the right strategy for success. Another thing is that this time, it seems, they saved on media artists. In the first part, there were voices of Pavel Priluchny and Polina Gagarina, but it seems that their fan base did not work effectively enough, according to the producers of the film, and this time they are clearly betting on the brand itself. And the word "Hermitage" takes on an additional dimension for children. And this is not the case with "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles," where the names of Renaissance geniuses were not played out in any way, but with an attempt to really interest the audience in the museum and culture in general, and this is very valuable.

"Space dog Lida", 16+

Directed by Evgeny Sangadzhiev. Starring: Evgeny Tkachuk, Evgeny Stychkin, Julia Peresild, Sergey Bezrukov, Alexandra Bortich

Evgeny Sangadzhiev is one of the most interesting directors in Russia today. It is enough to recall the provocative series "Happy Ending" and the high-profile project "Ballet" with Fyodor Bondarchuk. "Space Dog Lida" became Sangadzhiev's full-length debut, and it was very difficult in every sense. For example, it is noteworthy that for the first time he is not among the authors of the script. That is, this is not his author's project. Then there's science fiction with computer effects and, therefore, a big budget, understandable risks, and new challenges. Sangadzhiev's stellar ensemble does not scare him, he has always worked with major artists both as an actor and as a director, but there could still be pitfalls here.

The first impressions of the tape are contradictory. The plot is captivating: a boy from 2000 finds himself in our time, meets with different versions of his grown-up self, one more than the other, and also learns that in the past, three days after he "flew away" from there, his father must die. And there is hope that if this death is prevented, everything will go differently. Maybe not for the whole country, although who knows, but for him for sure. But this is the main problem of the film. From an author like Sangadzhiev, you expect that there will be sharpness, reflection, and sore points. But he was clearly thinking about something else — about an exciting big movie for a wide audience, about working with pace, with drive, and making the dog look organic in the frame. It's hard to say how the audience will react, but the Film Distributor's Bulletin predicts a disastrous 25 million rubles for the film at the end of the weekend.

"Pastures of the Gods", 16+

Directed by Anar Abbasov. Starring: Anton Filipenko, Danila Yakushev, Anna Viller, Nadezhda Ivanova

Alexey Uchitel's first experimental workshop at VGIK gave our cinema a number of big names. Among them are Ivan Tverdovsky, Philip Yuryev, Taisiya Igumentseva, Taisiya Reshetnikova, Alexandra Likhacheva, Olga Korotkaya. Everyone's fates have developed in different ways, but it is impossible to imagine the last twenty years of our cinema without their works, which have always caused controversy and received premieres at major festivals, including Cannes and Venice. Anar Abbasov is also from that workshop, although his career is uneven and films are released less often than we would like. Of the latter, the most notable was "Battle", where Rinal Mukhametov played a street dancer who had lost his hearing.

Abbasov shot "Pastures of the Gods" based on a script by Oleg Denisov, who was also in the Teacher's workshop. And now it's an attempt to make a genre movie, a thriller about survival in the mountains, hunting people. However, there is a feeling that for Abbasov the story about the showdown of alpha males is not so interesting. As in his best film "Amun", nature is in the foreground here, and this is a meditation on how we see it and what our qualities are exposed when we come into contact with extreme circumstances. Abbasov is fascinated by the combination of beauty and death, and ordinary characters seem too insignificant against the background of this interest.