Based on Vasil Bykov’s story of the same name. During the Second World War a Soviet prisoner of war returns home, but everybody treats him with suspicion. In the course of the questioning it becomes clear that his story differs from what the words of the woman, whom he calls his wife. Only a face-to-face confrontation can unearth the truth.
Timofey Tribuntsev
Larisa Shakhvorostova
Pavel Polushkin
Alexander Taranzhin
Николай Исаков
Based on Vasil Bykov’s story of the same name. During the Second World War a Soviet prisoner of war returns home, but everybody treats him with suspicion. In the course of the questioning it becomes clear that his story differs from what the words of the woman, whom he calls his wife. Only a face-to-face confrontation can unearth the truth.
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 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.
While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.
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.
A daughter seeks to restore the reputation of her disgraced father, a wronged college professor. With help of a professional student, she must overcome an ambitious sorority bitch and corrupt college dean.
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.
Captain Fedor Volkonogov works in law enforcement. He is on the good books of the management, and his colleagues respect him. But one day, his life abruptly changes: he is declared a criminal. The Captain manages to run away before he is arrested. Suddenly he turns into an outcast, whom his former colleagues search across the whole city. At night Volkonogov is visited by a messenger from the other world, who warns him that after death he will go hell and be tormented forever. But he has an opportunity to change his fate and get to paradise if he repents, and at least one person forgives him. The Captain embarks on his way to find forgiveness. But he cannot even fathom what tests are awaiting him on this way.
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.
A man struggles with the tragic memories of his past to make sense of his present, but soon realizes that time isn't the enemy he thinks it is.