Foma Gordeyev, the son of a wealthy Volga merchant, doesn't want to continue his father's work. The mind is sickened by the dirt and injustice of life around him. Foma is seeking solace in a drunken rampage and wild antics. After many years of desolation, he is half-ill at the opening of a night shelter built with his father’s money.
Георгий Епифанцев
Foma Gordeyev
Сергей Лукьянов
Ignat Gordeyev
Павел Тарасов
Yakov Mayakin
Alla Labetskaya
Lyuba
Марианна Стриженова
Sasha
Maria Milkova
Sofya Medynskaya
Игорь Сретенский
Nikolay Yezhov
Геннадий Сергеев
Afrikan Smolin
Исай Гуров
Ukhtishchev
Foma Gordeyev, the son of a wealthy Volga merchant, doesn't want to continue his father's work. The mind is sickened by the dirt and injustice of life around him. Foma is seeking solace in a drunken rampage and wild antics. After many years of desolation, he is half-ill at the opening of a night shelter built with his father’s money.
A psychotic man opens fire in a diner, murdering numerous people before killing himself. The survivors struggle in different ways following this horrendous event: a doctor doubts his own instincts and elects to use an experimental medical procedure on his wife, while a gambler believes he's on a lucky streak. A waitress begins engaging in promiscuous sex, and a young girl whose father is among the dead gains unexpected fame.
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.
While vacationing in the countryside at his childhood home, a woman suddenly reveals to her husband that she is expecting a child – but not his.
Tom and Mae Garvey are a Tennessee farming couple battling violent floods to save their land. In addition to natural disasters, the Garveys fight to stop a selfish land developer and a local corporation from foreclosing on their farm. While Mae stays at home to care for their children and tend to the crops, Tom finds work as a scab at a steel mill to preserve his family's property.
Meg and Charles Wallace are aided by Calvin and three interesting women in the search for their father who disappeared during a government experiment. Their travels take them around the universe to a place unlike any other.
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.
เกี่ยวกับนักโทษคนหนึ่งชื่อรัสส์ มิลลิงส์ ซึ่งเพิ่งได้รับการปล่อยตัวจากคุกหลังจากรับโทษจำคุก 20 ปีในข้อหาครอบครองกัญชาหนึ่งออนซ์ โลกภายนอกเปลี่ยนแปลงไปจนเขาจำไม่ได้ ดูเหมือนมองผ่านกระจกและเคลื่อนไหวด้วยความเร็วที่แตกต่างออกไป เขาทำหน้าที่ของตนอย่างขยันขันแข็ง แต่การติดต่อกับมนุษย์เป็นแนวคิดที่ลืมเลือนและน่ากลัวสำหรับเขา เขายังคงได้รับการพักโทษและทำงานในร้านเบอร์เกอร์ คืนหนึ่งเขาพบทารกที่ถูกทิ้งในถังขยะ รัสส์ไม่แน่ใจว่าจะทำอย่างไรดี และติดอยู่ท่ามกลางความรักและความตื่นตระหนก รัสส์เริ่ม "ละลาย" ในที่สุดเขาก็พบความเชื่อมโยงกับมนุษย์อีกคน - และตัวเขาเอง ผ่านทารกที่หลงทาง ถูกขับไล่ และไม่รู้เรื่องเกี่ยวกับโลกที่อยู่รอบตัวเธอ - เช่นเดียวกับเขา เขากล้าที่จะออกจากเปลือกอารมณ์ของตัวเองและออกเดินทางเพื่อย้อนรอยตัวตนในอดีตของเขาจากช่วงเวลาอันไกลโพ้น "ก่อนหน้า" เมื่อเขาเป็นรัสกี้: บุคคล ลูกชาย ผู้ชาย ไม่ใช่ผู้ใต้ปกครอง
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...
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...
Jamie Fitzpatrick and Nona Alberts are two women from opposites sides of the social and economic track, but they have one thing in common: a mission to fix their community's broken school and ensure a bright future for their children. The two women refuse to let any obstacles stand in their way as they battle a bureaucracy that's hopelessly mired in traditional thinking, and they seek to re-energize a faculty that has lost its passion for teaching.