seis dias na vida de escritor brilhante e irônico que viu muito além dos limites rígidos da Rússia soviética dos anos 70.
During a nationwide moral panic caused by a recent spike in teenage suicides two federal investigators are sent to a small Russian town to review a cold case involving a suspicious death of a schoolgirl. Initially seeing their task as a mere PR stunt both gradually start to loose their focus as they venture deeper into the paranoid world of conspiracy theories surrounding the case.
A husband, a wife and another woman. Only three are in the frame.
1984, Sverdlovsk, USSR. A shy freshman, an entrepreneur, a poet and two charming it-girls navigate life in a student dorm, sharing their griefs and joys, all for one and one for all. Suddenly a horrible accident blows up the life of the dorm when a female student commits suicide. The dorm is a miniature model of the world that encapsulates the full range of human passions, acts of bravery and cowardice, aspirations for virtue and failures, of love, friendship and betrayal.
Russia 2017. The world could be on the verge of a great war. People are anxious that things could fall apart. Evolving around an unfinished building, a diverse group of outsiders struggle to find their place in this rapidly changing society, making up the mosaic of existence that is life itself…
Uma semana na vida de Boris Arkadiev, um humorista de stand-up soviético sob grande pressão: ao mesmo tempo em que é um comediante famoso, ele é inseguro e sofre com a censura em seu país. Boris se sente ainda mais incomodado quando os próprios censores o convidam para apresentações, como se ele fosse uma espécie de bobo da corte. Cansado de ouvir ordens sobre as piadas que pode (ou não) fazer, Boris se arma com seu humor afiado para se vingar.
Young female fighter pilots arrive to the frontline. They have different stories and different fates. They are getting older, falling in love and lose their closest ones as well as take their place in the world of men. The air has become their home. However, at war no one knows whose fate is to live and who is doomed to die.
David é um professor russo que começa a usar as redes sociais para criticar a administração de sua cidade. Mas logo ele é acusado de fraude pelos governantes e colocado em prisão domiciliar. Agora, David precisa encontrar uma maneira de se fazer ouvir novamente.
Mukhabbat, an Uzbek immigrant, works at a convenience store on the outskirts of Moscow. Just like the rest of the immigrants at the store, she is forced to work without getting paid and endure mental and physical abuse, until she overcomes her fear one day and takes her fate into her own hands.
This film is a very short story about a former rescue worker returning from Tokyo – a man who is quite successful in his everyday life, and who, after hearing about another earthquake in Japan, dropped everything and went there to help. He is flying back home in an almost empty plane. Indeed, many regular flights have been canceled, and the ones that are still operated do not sell out. He is flying back with a very elderly Japanese man he had just saved – the man is now all alone in the world, his family had died. And the two men somehow clicked. Perhaps because our main character is also lonely. Also flying with them on the plane are those who are no longer here.Those who did not survive the disaster. Together with the characters, their past moves through space – their memories, their world. The world that is no less, but perhaps even more important for them than the reality.
Uma menina de seis anos chamada Anna tem toda a família assassinada em uma execução em massa de judeus. Por um milagre, ela sobrevive e passa as próximas centenas de dias escondida na chaminé em desuso de um comandante nazista. Relembrando sua vida que a guerra tomou, com os fundamentos culturais ensinados por seus pais e com a ajuda de um amigo, Anna precisa sobreviver e manter sua humanidade nas condições mais inumanas possíveis.
Oleg is a regular office clerk. His days are grey and almost identical. Taking care of his small son has become passive pandering to a capricious child. But Oleg leads a double life — he is hooked on stimulants, an interest he shares with his mistress. He buys the drugs through the Darknet and regularly picks up the stashes. The story follows him on another quest for synthetic emotions, but this time Oleg has no idea what’s coming for him.
The amazing and tragic life story of the Russian Paralympic judoka Oleg Kretsul. Having lost his sight in a car accident, Kretsul did not give up the sport and was subsequently able to win Olympic gold at the Paralympics in Beijing.
A day from the life of the Muscovite Yuri, who is stuck in a remote, northern village. he should have been back in the city for a long time, and yet he wanders through sad, deserted, autumnal fields and forests. his wife and his best friend force him to return to his usual life. But it seems that Yuri is comprehending something very important. he abandons those he loves and remains one to one with nature. But the world of nature plays by its own rules.
Depois de quatro anos na prisão, Olga decide recomeçar sua vida do zero. Ela quer recuperar sua filha de dez anos, mas a avó da menina, que cuidou dela durante todo esse tempo, não desistirá tão fácil de sua guarda.
Six various novels united in a one movie.
Korzhik, Karamelka and Kompot, together with their parents, they go to rest at a seaside resort, where bright events await them, full of cheerful bustle and meeting new friends.
“Bloodrop” is an experimental short directed by Aleksei Popogrebsky. Originally part of the Experiment 5ive omnibus, hence the black envelope with the picture inside, which had to be the common element of all 5 films.
Film about the order of things: everyone has his own.
Do you know what goes on in the head of someone who walks past you?