Seven interconnecting stories that take place in Russian bedrooms. These include a son visiting his complaining bedridden mother, a middle-aged couple bickering, one soldier bullying another in an army barracks, a rich childless housewife picking up the soldier for rough sex while her husband has a tryst with another man arranged by computer, and a wife who asks to be handcuffed to her bed while being videotaped by her lover.
Александр Сирин
Slava
Ия Саввина
Slava's mother
Марина Голуб
Наталья Коляканова
Ольга Хохлова
Карэн Бадалов
Андрей Заводюк
Seven interconnecting stories that take place in Russian bedrooms. These include a son visiting his complaining bedridden mother, a middle-aged couple bickering, one soldier bullying another in an army barracks, a rich childless housewife picking up the soldier for rough sex while her husband has a tryst with another man arranged by computer, and a wife who asks to be handcuffed to her bed while being videotaped by her lover.
Struggling to provide her daughters with a safe, happy home, Sandra decides to build one - from scratch. Using all her ingenuity to make her ambitious dream a reality, Sandra draws together a community to lend a helping hand to build her house and ultimately recover her own sense of self.
A young Kyrgyz immigrant tries to eke out a living in Moscow after abandoning her newborn and fleeing the hospital.
After the lewd and frenetic Dance of the Seven Veils, and with the solemn pledge from the very lips of Herod himself that she could have whatever her heart desires up to half his kingdom, wanton and proud young Salomé comes before her king with an unreasonable demand. Beguiled by John the Baptist, and then scorned for the sake of his god, lascivious Salomé—encouraged by her mother, the vindictive, Herodias—commands that John be executed and his head delivered on a silver platter.
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.
สหภาพโซเวียต ค.ศ. 1938 เมื่อถึงจุดสูงสุดของความน่าสะพรึงกลัวครั้งใหญ่ สตาลินกวาดล้างข้าราชการของเขาเอง คนที่ดำเนินการปราบปรามถูกจับและประหารชีวิต ร้อยเอกฟิโอดอร์ วอลโคโนกอฟ (ยูรี บอรีซอฟ) ผู้บังคับใช้กฎหมายของสหภาพโซเวียตที่ได้รับความเคารพนับถือและเชื่อฟังคำสั่งเป็นอย่างดี เขาเห็นเพื่อนร่วมงานถูกสอบสวนอย่างน่าสงสัย เมื่อรู้ว่าถึงคิวของเขาแล้ว เขาจึงหลบหนี และในไม่ช้าก็ถูกไล่ล่าโดยอดีตเพื่อนร่วมงาน ฟิโอดอร์ผู้เปราะบางและสิ้นหวังตระหนักว่าเขาเคยเป็นส่วนหนึ่งของอะไร ทันใดนั้น เขาได้รับข้อความจากนรก: หลังความตายเขาจะถูกตัดสินให้ทรมานชั่วนิรันดร์ วิธีเดียวที่จะหลีกเลี่ยงได้คือสำนึกผิดและหาคนอย่างน้อยหนึ่งคนที่จะให้อภัยเขา แต่เวลากำลังจะหมดลง และการตามล่าก็ใกล้เข้ามาแล้ว
Shortly before the outbreak of WWI, a peasant from rural Russia arrives in St. Petersburg to find work.
Middle-aged widow Beatrice Hunsdorfer and her daughters Ruth and Matilda are struggling to survive in a society they barely understand. Beatrice dreams of opening an elegant tea room but does not have the wherewithal to achieve her lofty goal. Epileptic Ruth is a rebellious adolescent, while shy but highly intelligent and idealistic Matilda seeks solace in her pets and school projects, including one designed to show how small amounts of radium affect marigolds.
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.
Living in rural Texas is a dysfunctional family: an abusive dad, a Vietnam vet with a war wound that's left him impotent; a compliant wife and a son of about 20, two small sons who look a lot like their brother. The dad harbors a secret, and he goes to murderous lengths to keep it hidden. The young man, Jimmy, who has suspicions, but little comes out until a Yankee woman comes to town.
Russian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin's Great Purge. Ivan Lapshin, the head of the local police, does what he has to do. And he does it well.