Dina Rubina

Since early childhood Peter has been obsessed with the world of puppets, but his greater obsession is with a real girl, Lisa. He crafts his perfect woman out of her. But Lisa isn't a docile marionette. She's a living human being and she rebels against her creator. Based on the critically-acclaimed, brilliant and poignant novel by one of the best contemporary Russian writers, Dina Rubina, "Petrushka Syndrome" is a multidimensional metaphor, where a sense of duality pervades everything. People and dolls, life and art, the Creator and the creation depend on one another. And where does one draw the line between them?

A story about a friendship between eighty years old sculptor and a way younger theater director.

A new father could not be more happy about the birth of his first son...until he learns that the baby is not biologically his. In spite of everything, he raises the child as his own.

Fate brings two girls together at the very beginning of their lives. Seven-year-old Lyubka, growing up among street thieves, distracts the attention of a rich family at the train station, and at that moment a suitcase is stolen from them. After this incident, the "little robber" often imagines herself in the place of a well-dressed girl, with mom, dad and a beautiful doll in her arms.

Young doctor Irina Mikhaylovna works in Soviet province and has to hire ex-con Lyuba as baby tender for her daughter. When anti-Semitic company starts in Soviet Union and danger is threatening Irina, Lyuba stays her only devoted friend.

The hero of the film novella is a young police officer. However, the film is not about the feats and adventures of the policeman Elyar, who deals with lawbreakers on a daily basis, but rather about the internal struggle of the protagonist to have his own understanding of good and decency. One day, fate brings him together with a nurse named Gulya. It took the hero a lot of patience and kindness before the young woman opened her heart.