KVN / 1961

KVN is a Russian humour TV show and competition where teams compete by giving funny answers to questions and showing prepared sketches. The programme was first aired by the First Soviet Channel on November 8, 1961. Eleven years later, in 1972, when few programmes were being broadcast live, Soviet censors found the students' impromptu jokes offensive...

KVN / 1965

This is chronic of the lives of Kharkiv students whose stable life was suddenly disrupted by "KVN" (name and Russian abbreviation of the popular show Klub Vesyólykh i Nakhódchivykh? what translated in English as "Club of the Funny and Inventive"). A documentary collage consisting of images of fields and housing estates, young people having fun, or a university setting and staged scenes filled with humour and hyperbole, accompanied by a voiceover recalling propagandistic socio-critical documentaries.

Международная лига КВН / 2020

Первая лига КВН

KVN-ers / 2018

The first feature film about KVN. A unique project filmed at the KVN festival in Sochi without the permission of the festival organizers. The history of this path to the heights of the youth game itself.

KVN: Birth Certificate / 2017

November 8, 2016 marked the 55th anniversary of the airing of the very first KVN program. The "Fun and Resourceful Club" has known good and bad times: for censorship reasons, it was closed in 1972, and revived only in 1986. But even without the broadcast, KVN existed on the student and amateur stages, lived, developed, and changed along with the time and the country. There is no such TV centenarian in the world. So who are they, the inventors of this "perpetual motion machine": Muratov, Yakovlev and Axelrod?

Детский КВН / 2017