Each of these paintings hides a unique story in which the fates of the heroes and the artists themselves are intertwined. What was the fate of the boy Vasyatka from the "Troika" of Vasily Perov? Has Ivan Shishkin really never painted bears? Why did Viktor Borisov-Musatov see ghosts? And is it true that it was the "Defeated Demon" that played a fatal role in the fate of Mikhail Vrubel? The answers to all these questions are in the film almanac "Art and Fact".
Each of these paintings hides a unique story in which the fates of the heroes and the artists themselves are intertwined. What was the fate of the boy Vasyatka from the "Troika" of Vasily Perov? Has Ivan Shishkin really never painted bears? Why did Viktor Borisov-Musatov see ghosts? And is it true that it was the "Defeated Demon" that played a fatal role in the fate of Mikhail Vrubel? The answers to all these questions are in the film almanac "Art and Fact".
A shell-shocked Afghanistan war hero named Ivan Skryabin (Mikhail Skryabin) spends his days stoking the fire in a giant coal furnace. When he isn’t tending the flames, he keeps busy with other activities. He works on a historical novel. His adult daughter Sasha (Aida Tumutova) comes to visit. Local kids come to gaze at the flames. Gangsters, including a former Army sergeant (Aleksandr Mosin) and a sniper known as Bison (Yuri Matveyev), drop by to add special kindling to the fire.
South America, 1960. A lonely and grumpy Holocaust survivor convinces himself that his new neighbor is none other than Adolf Hitler. Not being taken seriously, he starts an independent investigation to prove his claim, but when the evidence still appears to be inconclusive, Polsky is forced to engage in a relationship with the enemy in order to obtain irrefutable proof.
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.
ในปี 1977 เด็กสาวคนหนึ่งถูกจับตัวไปขังไว้ในกล่องขนาดเท่าโลงศพ เมื่อผู้คุมขังปล่อยเธอออกมา ก็มีเพียงการทำร้ายเธออย่างโหดร้าย เธอจะหนีรอดไปได้หรือไม่
Katya and her 6-year-old son Sanya, who, in 1952, meet a veteran Soviet officer named Tolyan. Katya falls in love with Tolyan, who turns out to be a small time criminal, but who also becomes a father figure to Sanya ...
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
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 touching story about a white Gordon Setter with black ear, who became homeless because of his master's illness. His master, Ivan Ivanovich, a man far from being young, fond of hunting and nature, took a puppy to live with him, despite the dog's black ear being a "shame of nature" to his breed. The man always took his dog, whom he called Bim or Bimka, to hunting in country. Later, however Ivan Ivanovich began to have problems with heart and when the disease became worse was taken to a hospital. His dog couldn't bear waiting for the only person that ever cared for him and set out to find his master. Thus began the story of a homeless dog and his many breathtaking and exciting adventures, encounters of many people, kind and evil, and leads to an unexpected and heart-rending end.
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.