Vasily Gubanov, the son of the film “The Communist”’s hero, arrived in Moscow not on call or for a business trip. Instead, he came to raise the issue with government authorities about halting the construction of a chemical plant. Despite being the author of the project, which was in full swing, millions of state funds had been spent, and thousands of people’s lives were tied to its completion.
Igor Vladimirov
Губанов
Nikolai Plotnikov
Ниточкин
Antonina Maksimova
Елизавета Кондратьевна
Nina Gulyayeva
Зойка
Tatyana Nadezhdina
Чулкова
Lyudmila Maksakova
посетительница кафе
Mikhail Bolotnikov
эпизод
Aleksey Borzunov
Миша
Nikolay Zasukhin
Георгий Кузьмич
Vasily Gubanov, the son of the film “The Communist”’s hero, arrived in Moscow not on call or for a business trip. Instead, he came to raise the issue with government authorities about halting the construction of a chemical plant. Despite being the author of the project, which was in full swing, millions of state funds had been spent, and thousands of people’s lives were tied to its completion.
Georgy is driving a load of freight into Russia when, after an unpleasant encounter with the police at a border crossing, he finds himself giving a lift to a strange old man with disturbing stories about his younger days in the Army. After next picking up a young woman who works as a prostitute and is wary of the territory, Georgy finds himself lost, and despite asking some homeless men for help, he’s less sure than he was before of how to make his way back where he belongs. As brutal images of violence and alienation cross the screen, Georgy’s odyssey becomes darker and more desperate until it reaches an unexpected conclusion.
Carla Zachanassian had a child by Serge Miller as a teenager. When Serge refused to marry her, she was driven out of town. By her own wit and cunning, she has returned as a multi-millionaire for a visit. The town lays out the red carpet expecting big things from Carla, only to learn that her sole purpose is to see Serge Miller killed...
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.
Early morning silence is broken by screeching tires as a helicopter bears down on a speeding vehicle. Taking a quick corner, the team tumbles out into the woods as their car pulls away. Now they must make their way through the thick of nature and thick gunfire to accomplish their mission. Not a single word of dialogue is spoken throughout the entire film. Instead, the music, sounds, images and deeply truthful acting turn a simple plot into an intense experience. Passion and intrigue keep building to the very end.
On a summer day in late 19th century Russia, a group of bourgeois friends and acquaintances gather at a dilapidated country estate.
A young Kyrgyz immigrant tries to eke out a living in Moscow after abandoning her newborn and fleeing the hospital.
Shortly before the outbreak of WWI, a peasant from rural Russia arrives in St. Petersburg to find work.
Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later, she agrees to go to even more remote spot with a Tibetan saddle tramp Lao Jin to learn horse herding.
Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles with family problems and has his friendships tested by racism.
On the French island of Mont Saint-Michel, Jack, a failed presidential candidate, Tom, a poet and Sonia, a physicist, engage in an intellectual conversation about politics, philosophy and life over the course of a single day.