NOTA BENE FILM GROUP
WE FILM DIFFERENTLY.
FILMS
THE RED SILK
2025, dir. by Andrey Volgin
Russia, China
1927. Trans-Siberian Express. Secret documents that will determine the future of the USSR and China are being transported across Russia. Under the guise of ordinary passengers, foreign intelligence officers and real thugs are hiding, ready to do anything for the sake of documents. A young Red Army soldier and a former Tsarist agent have to team up to uncover a common enemy.

Genre: detective, action
Cast: Miloš Biković, Gleb Kalyzhnyy, Zheng Hanyi, Elena Podkaminskaya, Gosha Kutsenko, Yaroslav Mogilnikov

Nota Bene Film Group, National Media Group (NMG Kinoprokat & Art Pictures Distribution)

A NEW PARAGRAPH
2023, dir. by Denis Vilenkin
Russia
Veronica, a primary school teacher, returns to school from maternity leave and rethinks her life.

Genre: short, drama
Cast: Marina Vasileva, Gela Meshki, Valentina Kruglyakova, Ekaterina Vinogradova

Zoom Production in association with Nota Bene Film Group
NO CRYING
2022, dir. by Natalia Nazarova
Russia, Italy
An emigrant in Scandinavia sends her son to school but he does not return. In search of the child, she finds herself in a dead end: according to the laws of the “new” juvenile justice, her son is the property of the state.

Genre: drama, thriller
Cast: Svetlana Chuikina, Ivan Yankovskiy, Vladimir Levchenko, Katharina Spiering, Dirk Martens, Jonathan Salway
LEAVE OF ABSENCE
2019, dir. by Anton Sazonov
Russia
Artyom, a regular butchery worker, gets confused with his life circumstances. Suddenly he comes up with an unusual way out of his crisis.

Genre: short, drama
Cast: Andryus Daryala, Aleksandr Zotov, Darya Rumyantseva

Sundance Film Festival
2020 Nominee Short Film Grand Jury Prize

Locarno Film Festival
2019 Pardi di Domani Best Direction Prize

Produced by After Hours Films in association with Nota Bene team
BALKAN LINE
2019, dir. by Andrey Volgin
Russia, Serbia
After the bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, the state army pulls out of Kosovo region, leaving Serbian people at the mercy of terrorists. A small band of soldiers must take over the Slatina airport, and hold it until the peacekeepers arrive.

Genre: action, drama
Cast: Anton Pampushnyy, Milos Bikovic, Milena Radulovic, Gosha Kutsenko, Ravshana Kurkova, Gojko Mitic, Emir Kusturica

Produced by Nota Bene team under Upgrade Vision company


IN PROGRESS
THE BLACK SILK
2027, dir. by Andrey Volgin
Russia
1931. Japan is transporting a secret cargo codenamed Black Silk to Shanghai, a cargo capable of determining the course of the coming war. In pursuit of this mysterious object, Soviet spies board a passenger liner that turns out to be a colossal trap. Surrounded by Japanese agents, with nothing but the endless ocean around them, and time is running out with every minute. A single mistake could lead to a global catastrophe.

Genre: detective, action
Cast: Miloš Biković, Maxim Matveev, Zheng Hanyi Gleb Kalyzhnyy

Nota Bene Film Group, National Media Group (NMG Kinoprokat & Art Pictures Distribution)

TALENTS

Nota Bene Film Group specializes in producing high-quality film content of all genres and formats. Not only company does maintain its existing partnerships with the leading Russian film distributors and streaming services but it also collaborates with the studios and sales agencies from other countries including China, Italy, United Kingdom, Serbia etc.

Nota Bene producers have more than 15 years of experience in the film market and previously had the first-look deal with the 20th Century Fox CIS within which Iron Lord, The Treasure of Lake Kaban and Balkan Line films were released.
Nota Bene was established in 2019 by the producers of Balkan Line Vadim Byrkin and Anastasia Pelevina who created their own production house after the release of the film.

The first full production project of Nota Bene was No Crying directed by Natalia Nazarova. The dramatic thriller filmed with the support of the Cinema Fund participated at a number of Russian and international film festivals and won about 20 prizes. The film also won two awards of the Guild of Film Critics of the Union of Cinematographers of Russia in the Best Feature Film and Best Screenplay categories.
WHO WE ARE
HISTORY
OUR TEAM
  • VADIM BYRKIN
    GENERAL PRODUCER
  • ANASTASIA PELEVINA
    PRODUCER
  • SVETLANA ZIMAGOROVA
    EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
PARTNERS
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