Music, art, stage - great and holy words, beckoning lights of life. Young beautiful souls burst into their light. And often merciless fate ruins them on this path or breaks their fragile delicate strength. Young Ira, with her sensitive and impulsive soul, aspired to something else. Life with her old father weighed on her.
Yevgeni Vakhtangov
Jean Martin
Михаил Чехов
Fred, Jean's brother
Olga Baclanova
Ira
Борис Сушкевич
Father
Music, art, stage - great and holy words, beckoning lights of life. Young beautiful souls burst into their light. And often merciless fate ruins them on this path or breaks their fragile delicate strength. Young Ira, with her sensitive and impulsive soul, aspired to something else. Life with her old father weighed on her.
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.
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.
An optimistic, talented teen clings to a huge secret: she's homeless and living on a school bus. When tragedy strikes, can she learn to accept a helping hand?
A man reflects on the lost love of his youth and his long-ago journey from Taiwan to America as he begins to reconnect with his estranged daughter.
Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles with family problems and has his friendships tested by racism.
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.
Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.
An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of getting a loan from a friend.
A street smart runner develops an intense rivalry with an equally ambitious wealthy young athlete.
On the eve of his fortieth anniversary Sergei Makarov looks back at his life and learns that he has achieved nothing. He was not able to be happy and to bring happiness to the closest people in his life, neither to his long-suffering wife nor young mistress nor friends nor work... It is about the men who never grew up and could not find themselves in the time of stagnation – gifted, charming, but infantile and lost, they never were able to realize themselves...