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A Beautiful Life

A fugitive prisoner wanders into a distant hunting winter quarters, almost frozen in the taiga. A kind old hunter accepts him according to the Northern tradition: whoever the person is, he will first be fed, warmed, and only then asked where he is from and why. According to the same custom, everything that a traveler needs is left in the winter quarters: matches, dry firewood, salt, bread, cigarettes. But the villain did not appreciate the kindness of the hunter, stole his gun from him and the old man paid for the kindness with his life. Based on the story by V. Shukshin.

A Beautiful Life

NR 2004
Torn pages from Lenin's diary

In the Siberian village of Shushenskoye, not a modern thinker, rocker, poet, rebel lives in internal emigration. The students simply call him "Teacher", his wife calls him Volodenka, someone Trotsky shouts at him in the heat of the moment: "You're a fucking psycho! You damn fool!" The further into the winter forest — the more firewood: dreams come true, reality finally gives way to fantasy. As a result of the quail hunt, the victims alternatively turn out to be either Stalin, Clara Zetkin, or Trotsky. However, Trotsky in any case was the least lucky of all…

Torn pages from Lenin's diary

NR 2009
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In 2005, Mikhail Khodorkovsky was found guilty of economic crimes and sentenced to 11 years in prison. But this film is not about the most famous political prisoner. This is the reaction of the population of our country to the arrest of Khodorkovsky, recorded conversations on the streets of different cities with the first passers-by. The people's ruthlessness, the desire for blood, the joyful readiness to execute lynching themselves, saving the fatherland, over all who are smarter, richer, freer, over Jews and people of a different mentality – this is a frighteningly objective assessment of us, residents of sovereign Russia, a country whose future may never come.

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7.5 2005