The action is set in 1970 as the Soviet Union (and the entire progressive world) are preparing to celebrate Lenin's centenary. Not to be outdone, the...

A tragicomic grotesque fantasy about the adventures of a drum and its owner in a country once called the Soviet Union.

The long-term war with Sparta ends. The power and prosperity of Athens has sunk into the past; in an atmosphere of general despair and irritation,...

A new screen version of the play of the same name, written by Aleksandar Ostrovski. After a long time spent traveling abroad, the aging landowner...

A rich, smart, charming philanthropist from Saint-Petersburg Andrei Rokshin is found dead at home. The culprit is a woman wearing a black veil....

From his childhood in Russia to his last days in California, the tumultuous ininerary and bathed in melancholy of the legendary pianist and composer...

In the last winter of WWII a group of captive German soldiers is brought to a remote Russian village, where widows, a child and a crippled are the...

Vera Andreyevna and Grigory Petrovich are an elderly couple who have had a long and happy life together. One day in the market Vera Andreyevna runs...

Upon killing an old pawnbroker, a former student must confront the ensuing conflict between logic and emotion within him.

Forester Yuri Savushkin has been protecting nature and animals for several years now. But “seekers” of zoological rarities (junior...

Two teenagers are investigating a mystery of a possible monster living in the lake near their home town of Zaborsk.

An unnamed hero roaming the streets of St Petersburg is befriended by a beggar with a donkey and a slightly deranged prostitute.

Pavel Shnyrev is a professional killer. He has a lot of enemies and a lot of problems. He is rushing, he is driven... Pavel's mother goes to the...

When an American of Russian descent arrived at the dawn of perestroika in the Russian hinterland, in the town of Pavlovsky Posad, where old Russian...

A semi-fictional account of the life of Russian poet Joseph Brodsky, who was forced into American exile in 1972.