Old Oleg Batorov is quietly living out his life in the Far Eastern wilderness, when suddenly his granddaughter Vera comes to him in the company of her boyfriend Kolya. The last time Batorov saw Vera was when she was very young, but he barely manages to get to know her again — the next morning, she and Kolya are abducted by bandits.
Sergey Garmash
Oleg Batorov
Varvara Volodina
Ruzil Minekaev
Aleksey Serebryakov
Ivan Makarevich
Valeriy Kukhareshin
Evgeny Kharitonov
Ivan Mulin
Old Oleg Batorov is quietly living out his life in the Far Eastern wilderness, when suddenly his granddaughter Vera comes to him in the company of her boyfriend Kolya. The last time Batorov saw Vera was when she was very young, but he barely manages to get to know her again — the next morning, she and Kolya are abducted by bandits.
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.
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.
1998, Nalchik. A Jewish family is in trouble: the youngest son and his bride do not come home, and in the morning, a ransom note arrives. The ransom is so high that the family is forced not only to sell its small business, but also to seek help from its fellow tribesmen.
An aging Tennessee farmer returns to his homestead and must confront a family betrayal, the reappearance of an old enemy, and the loss of his farm.
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...
An uninterrupted rehearsal of Chekhov's 'Uncle Vanya' plays out by a company of actors. The setting: their run-down theater with an unusable stage and crumbling ceiling. The play is shown act by act with the briefest of breaks to move props or for refreshments. The lack of costumes, real props and scenery is soon forgotten.
A young man with a bright future suffers a near-fatal accident and recreates his new life with the help of an unlikely animal friend.
Russia, 1936: revolutionary hero Colonel Kotov is spending an idyllic summer in his dacha with his young wife and six-year-old daughter Nadia and other assorted family and friends. Things change dramatically with the unheralded arrival of Cousin Dmitri from Moscow, who charms the women and little Nadia with his games and pianistic bravura. But Kotov isn't fooled: this is the time of Stalin's repression, with telephone calls in the middle of the night spelling doom - and he knows that Dmitri isn't paying a social call...
The true story of 20-year-old Colleen Stan, a hitchhiking woman abducted by a young couple and held captive for seven years, during which time she's tortured and forced to live as a slave to her captors.
Katya and her 6-year-old son Sanya, who, in 1952, meet a veteran Soviet officer named Tolyan. Katya falls in love with Tolyan, who turns out to be a small time criminal, but who also becomes a father figure to Sanya ...