Une jeune Finlandaise prend un train à Moscou pour se rendre sur un site archéologique en mer arctique. Elle est contrainte de partager son compartiment avec un inconnu. Cette cohabitation et d’improbables rencontres vont peu à peu rapprocher ces deux êtres que tout oppose.
Since the fall of the Iron Curtain an estimated four million children have found themselves living on the streets in the former countries of the Soviet Union. In the streets of Moscow alone there are over 30,000 surviving in this manner at the present time. The makers of the documentary film concentrated on a community of homeless children living hand to mouth in the Moscow train station Leningradsky. Eight-year-old Sasha, eleven-year-old Kristina, thirteen-year-old Misha and ten-year-old Andrej all dream of living in a communal home. They spend winter nights trying to stay warm by huddling together on hot water pipes and most of their days are spent begging. Andrej has found himself here because of disagreements with his family. Kristina was driven into this way of life by the hatred of her stepmother and twelve-year-old Roma by the regular beatings he received from his constantly drunk father. "When it is worst, we try to make money for food by prostitution," admits ...
After being fired from his bull breeding job without proper compensation, Franco steals a world-class bull from his former employer and smuggles it to Hungary, planning to sell it for a large sum of money.
Sparky Smith (Joe Mantegna) was manager of the Seattle Mariners until he had one too many shouting matches with the team's owner (Michael Lerner) and winds up fired. Now Sparky's ready to coach any team who'll have him. The only problem is, no one will, until the day the Russian Sports Ministry led by the delectable Tanya (Natalya Negoda) comes knocking at his door. The Russians need a baseball coach for their Olympic team, and Sparky is just the man for the job. Once on Russian soil though, he soon discovers that the Russian team is composed of athletes, hockey players, and shot putters who barely know their way around a diamond. Confronted with this losing team, hilarious comedy ensues when Sparky is told to accept an invitation to have his team visit the States and play his old team the Mariners.
Minsk, Biélorussie, 1996. Velya, une DJ en herbe, veut déménager à Chicago pour réaliser ses rêves, mais la bureaucratie, une ligne téléphonique et la condition humaine vont mettre sur son chemin des obstacles qu'il sera difficile d'éviter.
The end of the Cold War did not bring about a definitive thaw in the former republics of the Soviet Union, so that today there are several frozen conflicts, unresolved for decades, in that vast territory. As in Transnistria, an unrecognized state, seceded from Moldova since 1990. Kolja is a silent witness of how borders and bureaucracy shape the lives of citizens, finally forced to lose their identity.
Plus de vingt ans après l'arrivée de Vladimir Poutine au pouvoir suprême en Russie, le 7 mai 2000, la société russe est profondément divisée. Une génération jeune et moderne s'oppose à la répression croissante du régime, qui conserve le soutien de nombreux membres des générations précédentes. Qui sont ces citoyens ordinaires qui rêvent de vivre dans une autre Russie ? Quel prix devront-ils payer pour obtenir la liberté et la justice qu'ils souhaitent tant ?
Russian-speaking Katja was born in 1992 in the Estonian city of Narva, not far from the Russian border. She represents the entire generation of the 1990s, which sees itself as a house with no address or railway tracks leading nowhere. In the ruins of the Soviet Union, she searches for her national identity and learns to breathe freedom.