Sevastopol. The submarine comes to the port to unload ammunition and fuel, evacuate the wounded to Novorossiysk. While unloading, a gasoline leak is detected, ventilation is needed. But it is impossible to do, since at dawn an air attack on the city and port begins. The boat is forced to lie down on the ground until dark. 14 hours at the bottom under the roar of bombers, of depth charges and poisonous gasoline vapors slowly spreading through the boat.
Sevastopol. The submarine comes to the port to unload ammunition and fuel, evacuate the wounded to Novorossiysk. While unloading, a gasoline leak is detected, ventilation is needed. But it is impossible to do, since at dawn an air attack on the city and port begins. The boat is forced to lie down on the ground until dark. 14 hours at the bottom under the roar of bombers, of depth charges and poisonous gasoline vapors slowly spreading through the boat.
The film is set during 1962 in Sevastopol, Crimea, then a secret Navy Base in the Soviet Union. General Serov hires Viktor, a cadet from the Kremlin Guard to work as his private chauffeur. In a jet-black "ZIM" limo, Viktor is chauffeuring the General's disabled daughter Vera. Viktor is oblivious to the hidden agenda of the KGB agent Saveliev, who manipulates everyone behind the scenes in the old rivalry between the Army and KGB.
Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
Barents Sea, August 12th, 2000. During a Russian naval exercise, and after suffering a serious accident, the K-141 Kursk submarine sinks with 118 crew members on board. While the few sailors who are still alive barely manage to survive, their families push for accurate information and a British officer struggles to obtain from the Russian government a permit to attempt a rescue before it is late. But general incompetence are against all their efforts.
During a routine patrol, a reporter is given permission to interview a hardened cold-war warrior and captain of the American destroyer USS Bedford. The reporter gets more than he bargained for when the Bedford discovers a Soviet sub and the captain begins a relentless pursuit, pushing his crew to breaking point.
Contemporary Russia. After he flubs a penalty kick, a humiliated national soccer player quits the game. He flees to a small town, where he decides to coach their local team.
After the lewd and frenetic Dance of the Seven Veils, and with the solemn pledge from the very lips of Herod himself that she could have whatever her heart desires up to half his kingdom, wanton and proud young Salomé comes before her king with an unreasonable demand. Beguiled by John the Baptist, and then scorned for the sake of his god, lascivious Salomé—encouraged by her mother, the vindictive, Herodias—commands that John be executed and his head delivered on a silver platter.
Shortly before the outbreak of WWI, a peasant from rural Russia arrives in St. Petersburg to find work.
Clara and her two sons escape from her abusive husband with little more than their car and plan to start over in New York. After the car towed away, the family meets Alice, who gets them into an emergency shelter. While stealing food at a Russian restaurant called ‘Winter Palace’, Clara meets Marc, who has been given the chance to help the old eatery regain its former glory. The ‘Winter Palace’ soon becomes a place of unexpected encounters between people who are all undergoing some sort of crisis and whom fate has now brought together.
Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea.