The year is 1949. One of the last outbreaks of Stalinist terror was a bloody buffoonery under the auspices of the fight against cosmopolitanism. In the Writers' House near Moscow, where a young writer finishes her story about her husband's arrest and death, there is a painful atmosphere of fear, suspicion, suspiciousness and foreboding that can drive you crazy...
Владимир Ивашов
Ирина Бразговка
Лидия Федосеева-Шукшина
Александр Калягин
Зиновий Гердт
Борис Клюев
Зоя Буряк
Андрей Зайков
Khasan Bidzhiyev
The year is 1949. One of the last outbreaks of Stalinist terror was a bloody buffoonery under the auspices of the fight against cosmopolitanism. In the Writers' House near Moscow, where a young writer finishes her story about her husband's arrest and death, there is a painful atmosphere of fear, suspicion, suspiciousness and foreboding that can drive you crazy...
A boozy lowlife tries to bury the truth about his crazy stepson's suspicious death, but a nosy newspaper columnist and the young man's mother complicate matters.
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.
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.
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.
On a summer day in late 19th century Russia, a group of bourgeois friends and acquaintances gather at a dilapidated country estate.
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...
1998, Nalchik. A Jewish family is in trouble: the youngest son and his bride do not come home, and in the morning, a ransom note arrives. The ransom is so high that the family is forced not only to sell its small business, but also to seek help from its fellow tribesmen.
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...
The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.
สหภาพโซเวียต ค.ศ. 1938 เมื่อถึงจุดสูงสุดของความน่าสะพรึงกลัวครั้งใหญ่ สตาลินกวาดล้างข้าราชการของเขาเอง คนที่ดำเนินการปราบปรามถูกจับและประหารชีวิต ร้อยเอกฟิโอดอร์ วอลโคโนกอฟ (ยูรี บอรีซอฟ) ผู้บังคับใช้กฎหมายของสหภาพโซเวียตที่ได้รับความเคารพนับถือและเชื่อฟังคำสั่งเป็นอย่างดี เขาเห็นเพื่อนร่วมงานถูกสอบสวนอย่างน่าสงสัย เมื่อรู้ว่าถึงคิวของเขาแล้ว เขาจึงหลบหนี และในไม่ช้าก็ถูกไล่ล่าโดยอดีตเพื่อนร่วมงาน ฟิโอดอร์ผู้เปราะบางและสิ้นหวังตระหนักว่าเขาเคยเป็นส่วนหนึ่งของอะไร ทันใดนั้น เขาได้รับข้อความจากนรก: หลังความตายเขาจะถูกตัดสินให้ทรมานชั่วนิรันดร์ วิธีเดียวที่จะหลีกเลี่ยงได้คือสำนึกผิดและหาคนอย่างน้อยหนึ่งคนที่จะให้อภัยเขา แต่เวลากำลังจะหมดลง และการตามล่าก็ใกล้เข้ามาแล้ว