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Sergey Garmash has 9 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2020s.
Divergent
2014
Action · Adventure
Two years after the fall of the alien ship, the life of a young woman from Moscow has been changed forever. Her growing powers are now at the focus of both human and celestial investigation: an alien force takes an interest in her, and will stop short of nothing, including an invasion. Can love and compassion save humanity, when faced with a much greater and more demanding test this time?
Dir. Fyodor Bondarchuk · With Alexander Petrov, Irina Starshenbaum, Oleg Menshikov

A very typical post-Soviet era storyline. A bunch of vagabonds lured an innocent teenage girl to their apartment, offered her a drink, intimidated, then gang raped her. Local cops are incapable to undertake an adequate actions against the scoundrels - prevented by the superior chief of the local police, who is the dad of one of the scumbags. The case is closed. The girl's granddad tired of an endless circumlocution decides to take revenge in his own hands.
Dir. Stanislav Govorukhin · With Mikhail Ulyanov, Anna Sinyakina, Aleksandr Porokhovshchikov

The story is set at the 1972 Munich Olympics where the U.S. team lost the basketball championship for the first time in 36 years. The final moments of the final game have become one of the most controversial events in Olympic history. With play tied, the score table horn sounded during a second free throw attempt that put the U.S. ahead by one. But the Soviets claimed they had called for a time out before the basket and confusion ensued. The clock was set back by three seconds twice in a row and the Russians finally prevailed at the very last. The U.S. protested, but a jury decided in the USSR’s favor and Team USA voted unanimously to refuse its silver medals. The Soviet players have been treated as heroes at home.
Dir. Anton Megerdichev · With Vladimir Mashkov, Ivan Kolesnikov, Viktoriya Tolstoganova
A Moscow University student discovers that his otherwise unremarkable car can fly. After his father is attacked, he decides to use the car to fight crime and becomes the city's defender against an evil millionaire.
Dir. Dmitry Kiselev, Alexander Voitinsky · With Grigoriy Dobrygin, Ekaterina Vilkova, Viktor Verzhbitskiy

A collection of several interlinked stories that happen on the New Year's eve...
Dir. Timur Bekmambetov, Yaroslav Chevazhevsky, Ignas Jonynas, Dmitry Kiselev, Alexander Voitinsky, Alexander Andryuschenko · With Ivan Urgant, Sergey Svetlakov, Vera Brezhneva
A loose remake of “12 Angry Men”, “12” is set in contemporary Moscow where 12 very different men must unanimously decide the fate of a young Chechen accused of murdering his step-father, a Russian army officer. Consigned to a makeshift jury room in a school gymnasium, one by one each man takes center stage to confront, connect, and confess while the accused awaits a verdict and revisits his heartbreaking journey through war in flashbacks.
Dir. Nikita Mikhalkov · With Sergey Makovetskiy, Nikita Mikhalkov, Sergey Garmash
After an alien ship crash lands in a Russian city, many who see the inside and the occupants start to question their own existence while others demand the aliens leave Earth.
Dir. Fyodor Bondarchuk · With Irina Starshenbaum, Alexander Petrov, Rinal Mukhametov

Returning to Saint Petersburg after a long exile, the dashing Yakovlev, a retired army officer, makes a comfortable living by winning other people's duels. An enigmatic, focused, and extremely skilled professional, he leaves a trail of dead bodies behind him as he swirls through polite society, frequently called upon to wield a pistol as a surrogate in duels at dawn. But when Yakovlev meets the naïve young Prince Tuchov and his beautiful sister, Princess Martha, the normally cold-hearted mercenary is surprised by hitherto undetected emotions. What transpires uncovers a series of revelations about his past and his present self.
Dir. Aleksei Mizgiryov · With Pyotr Fyodorov, Vladimir Mashkov, Franziska Petri
On the threshold of 22nd century, furrowing the space, protagonist from the Free Search Group makes emergency landing on an unknown planet where he must stay. People who are living on this planet have remained at the stone level of the 20th century, with its social problems, miserable ecology and shaky world..
Dir. Fyodor Bondarchuk · With Vasiliy Stepanov, Pyotr Fyodorov, Yuliya Snigir
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