Acting
When Gleb, a successful company director, finds himself under siege from mounting corporate pressures, an increasingly unstable world, and the discovery of his wife's affair, the collapse of his carefully ordered life accelerates toward violence.
Follows three stories set in contemporary Russia.
Zhenya and Boris are going through a vicious divorce marked by resentment, frustration and recriminations. Already embarking on new lives, each with a new partner, they are impatient to start again, to turn the page – even if it means threatening to abandon their 12-year-old son Alyosha. Until, after witnessing one of their fights, Alyosha disappears.
A story about the harsh times during colonization and famine of the 1930’s. The main character, gravedigger Isatai, played by Yerkebulan Dairov, will find himself faced by a hard choice that will predetermine the fate of his village.
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Antonina Milyukova is a beautiful and bright young woman, born in the aristocracy of 19th century Russia. She could have anything she'd want, and yet her only obsession is to marry Pyotr Tchaikovsky, with whom she falls in love from the very moment she hears his music. The composer finally accepts this union, but after blaming her for his misfortunes and breakdowns, his attempts to get rid of his wife are brutal. Consumed by her feelings for him, Antonina decides to endure and do whatever it takes to stay with him. Humiliated, disgraced and discarded, she is slowly driven to madness.
In a remote Kryashen village there lives an old man named Mikula, he has a young pregnant wife, parents who infinitely respect his fellow villagers. but one day a man comes to the village who claims that he is Mikulai's son, and the ideal world begins to collapse, exposing the terrible reality.
Stories from the life of three cohabitants who, while solving everyday conflicts, find themselves drawn into absurd situations: an alien invasion, rivalry with an ancient Egyptian god, space flight, escape from the underworld, and even the arrest of the real Santa Claus.
Sveta, Marina and Lyuba work as prostitutes in a small southern township. Their friend Zhanna, who got a chance for a better life, comes back from Moscow with a plan — she wants to open a local gym. Together girls decide to abandon prostitution and start legal business, but their dream to become free, happy and independent will come at a cost.
With the city in the throes of a flu epidemic, the Petrov family struggles through yet another day in a country where the past is never past, the present is a booze-fueled, icy fever dream of violence and tenderness, and where – beneath layers of the ordinary – things turn out to be extraordinary.
Varya has chosen, as they say, a not entirely female profession: she wants to become a firefighter. The girl comes for some work experience to a fire brigade where she must prove to everybody that she is worthy of being there.
A young immigrant actress, dressed as a costumed bear, faces a surreal odyssey in Berlin’s Soviet-era outskirts, where a chaotic birthday party blends humor, tragedy, and the echoes of a home she can’t forget.
Two get into the room, it's unclear how, it's unclear where. They could go out, but the doors suddenly close ...
Journalists from Moscow, Vika and Alexey, dissatisfied with life, tired of bosses and problems at work, come to the outback to report on the residents of an emergency house, where they face shocking fates of people.
In 1957 French student Pierre Durand comes to Moscow to do an internship at Moscow State University. Here he meets ballerina Kira Galkina and photographer Valera Uspenskiy. With them he discovers the cultural side of Moscow — not just the traditional one, but the underground one as well. During his year in Russia’s capital Pierre lives an entirely different life than what he’s used to. But the internship and the experience of the Soviet people’s way of life are not the only things Pierre is after. He’s searching for his father, White officer Tatishchev, who was arrested in the 1930s.
A husband, a wife and another woman. Only three are in the frame.
The characters in the film embody typical reactions to torture: denial of the problem, the conviction that “it must have been deserved,” and indifference. But torture concerns everyone — you can choose to ignore it, but that doesn't make it go away.
