An old dacha in the Moscow suburbs brought all the relatives together. Lyudmila Kozlova arrived from the city with her son, and everything would have been fine, except that the dacha itself is the subject of a dispute between the two sides of the family. Lyudmila unsuccessfully tries to persuade the owner to sell her the dacha, but to no avail. A conflict of contradictions brews, which seems to be resolved by the will of fate.
Juozas Budraitis
Lyudmila Gurchenko
Людмила Козлова
Ivan Lapikov
Inna Ulyanova
Vadim Zakharchenko
Alyona Okhlupina
Elena Morozova
An old dacha in the Moscow suburbs brought all the relatives together. Lyudmila Kozlova arrived from the city with her son, and everything would have been fine, except that the dacha itself is the subject of a dispute between the two sides of the family. Lyudmila unsuccessfully tries to persuade the owner to sell her the dacha, but to no avail. A conflict of contradictions brews, which seems to be resolved by the will of fate.
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...
The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life or death circumstance.
When Tragedy Strikes three Families, their Destiny forces them on a coverging path and mercy as the challenges of their fate could also resurrect their beliefs
A young Kyrgyz immigrant tries to eke out a living in Moscow after abandoning her newborn and fleeing the hospital.
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...
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.
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.
A sweeping drama set in the chaotic aftermath of the US invasion of Iraq, where the life of top UN diplomat Brazilian Sérgio Vieira de Mello hangs in the balance during the most treacherous mission of his career.
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.
On a summer day in late 19th century Russia, a group of bourgeois friends and acquaintances gather at a dilapidated country estate.