When Viktor meets Gizella one day beside the lake, he takes an interest in her and begins to call on her regularly. The one passion in…
Joseph Stalin (Sergei Razhuk) visits ailing Russian leader Vladimir Lenin (Leonid Mozgovoy) in 1923.
A man goes to see his former schoolmate working at a boiler house and persuades him to burn in the furnace the corpse of his communal…
While the Cold War heats up on the world stage, rebellious youth in 1955 Moscow wage a cultural battle against dismal Soviet conformity, donning brightly colored…
An elderly monk, while training the young novice who will succeed him, recalls the mysterious lost love of his past - just as his young successor…
Present days. A man and his companion go on a journey to cremate the dead body of the former beloved wife, on a riverbank in the…
A young piano tuner befriends two rich old-ladies, and plots, with the help of his girlfriend, to betray their trust and steal from them.
Dostoevsky's "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man" tells the story of a desperate man disenchanted with the world and at the verge of committing suicide. But…
The animated story of a leader and innovator who is undone by the distorted actions of the followers.
Military doctor General Klenski is arrested in Stalin's Russia in 1953 during an anti-Semitic political campaign accused of being a participant in so-called "doctors' plot".
Thirty years ago, Andrei Simoniovich Filipov, the renowned conductor of the Bolshoi orchestra, was fired for hiring Jewish musicians. Now a mere cleaning man at the…
In nineteenth-century Russia, a teenage boy in search of love is drawn to two very different women.
A widowed aeronautics engineer, who has lost his job, travels with his son hopping freight trains from Moscow to Koktebel, a town by the Black Sea,…
An elderly woman takes a train trip to visit her grandson at his army camp inside Chechnya.
In 1942, in Bavaria, Eva Braun is alone, when Adolf Hitler arrives with Dr. Josef Goebbels and his wife Magda Goebbels and Martin Bormann to spend…
Meat merchant Oleg, prostitute Marina, and piano tuner "simply Volodya" drop into an all-night bar in Moscow, where they are served by a narcoleptic bartender (three…
A father and his son live together in a roof-top apartment. They have lived alone for years in their own private world, full of memories and…
As Japan nears defeat at the end of World War II, Emperor Hirohito starts his day in a bunker underneath the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. A…
A slow and poignant story of love and patience told via a dying mother nursed by her devoted son. The simple narrative is a thread woven…
Follow Phil Rosenthal, creator of the hit TV series 'Everybody Loves Raymond,' in this incredibly funny true story of the attempt to translate 'Raymond' into a…
The unborn child of Mamlakat (Khamatova) is telling her story. She is 17, beautiful and vivacious, and dreaming secretly of becoming an actress. She lives with…
The first of three parts, we follow Tulse Luper in three distinct episodes: as a child during the first World War, as an explorer in Mormon…
A despairing scholar sells his soul to Satan in exchange for one night with a beautiful young woman.
On the steppes of Kazakhstan, Asa lives in a yurt with his sister Samal, her husband Ondas, and their three children. Ondas is a herdsman, tough…