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A ghost and a French marquis wander through the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, encountering scenes from many different periods of its history.
Graduate students in the Historical Museum find a diary dated 1919. In the diary, the author confesses to the murder of five people. The terrible deeds of the past are the key to unraveling a number of crimes committed in our day.
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When in 1941 Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, their troops quickly besieged Leningrad. Foreign journalists are evacuated but one of them, Kate Davies, is presumed dead and misses the plane. Alone in the city she is helped by Nina Tsvetnova a young and idealist police officer and together they will fight for their own survival and the survival of the people in the besieged Leningrad.
A woman tries to survive the invasion of Berlin by the Soviet troops during the last days of World War II.
As a result of a chain of tragic accidents on a distant planet, the cosmonaut Chapayev is left alone. His life is in constant danger. Something inexplicable, which he came into contact with, will forever change his life. From now on, he will be lost not only for himself but for the people of earth as well. And he have to die many times in order to prove that he is alive.
Two policemen— Katya and her partner Kukharenko, find a strange man with a canvas bag on his head at a bus stop. His name is Roma Aksentiev. Before that, he had been in the hospital for six months, but the 30-year-old man remembers absolutely nothing more: where he lives, where his relatives are, what happened before the hospital. Aksentiev has a gift: as soon as he touches the hands of a man or a woman, he sees their past or future. Such psychic abilities can be useful to police officers, especially since right now a mysterious maniac named Vodyanoi appears in a provincial town. He drowns his victims in reservoirs. A mystical detective will reveal the secrets of Aksentiev's gift and past, and the psychic himself will help Katya and her partner solve more than one complicated case.
A semi-fictional account of the life of Russian poet Joseph Brodsky, who was forced into American exile in 1972.
In the year 2012 (a future time when the film was made), an underground laboratory ten kilometres beneath the steppes of Western Siberia is the stage for the top-secret Project BUNKER. Distinguished scientists have been working on a mysterious scientific experiment for the last three years, with a strange, anonymous, and extremely popular erotic manuscript circulating through the complex serving as their only distraction. Now a new researcher has arrived — a veterinarian, despite the lack of animals at the facility — and the scientists already in place are wondering why.
In pursuit of his dreams, Igor faces a truth he struggles to accept and wrestles with the temptation to take drastic action in his grief, realizing the profound consequences it could have on his path and identity.
To save his business, formerly successful psychotherapist Kholmogorov is forced to take on his team a new employee, simple janitor Klava who, using her humane warmth and natural empathy, as opposed to Kholmogorov's trendy techniques, really heals people's souls and helps them overcome any, even the hardest psychological problems. Kholmogorov is skeptical at first; he doesn't believe in the success of this enforced experiment, but, after a while, he realized that Klava not only helps him attract new clients but also sort out his own personal problems.
In order to justify himself to the bigwigs of the criminal world, a young "gentleman of street luck", a former orphanage April is forced to take from the "godfather" of the mafia order to eliminate the two individuals who allegedly framed him. At the same time, one of the "targets" of April — confused in his relationship with crime businessman Vova — and he must save his life by agreeing to a very dangerous and questionable case. Naturally at one point their way — the roads intersect, but at the wrong time and in the most unexpected place. In just one night, the film's characters are trying to solve their problems, find the truth and, perhaps, pay a high price for it…
In this movie we follow fate not a person but car: first Soviet Lada. It starts with Brezhnev daughter and then gradually moves on parallel to last years of USSR into wild after-perestroika years with bandits and newly born oligarchs.
Somewhere in the Urals, between the European and the Asian parts of Russia, there is a stele called "Europe-Asia". Professional swindlers have taken a liking to this place. For several days in a row a wedding is taking place by the roadside. They hide under the veil of the bride, in the costumes of the groom and witnesses, cynically taking in turn every traveler. Fraudsters "spin" the travelers for cash gifts to the newlyweds, generously feeding the guests with diluted alcohol. Under the guidance of the "mother of the bride" the group plays out incredibly funny criminal plays, and their spectators, accomplices and victims are PR people and political technologists, Chinese and Hungarians, policemen and bandits, beggar nomad children and, of course, foreign tourists nostalgic for the once abandoned Russia....
A story of love between a young soldier Sergey and a fellow officer Anna.
The film has two story-lines or "realities". The main characters are lovers, Maria and Vasin who discover they have access to an alternate reality wherein missed opportunities have become realities. In the film's first act, subtitled "The Pilot", Maria finds that she is in love with Vasin again after rejecting his marriage proposal twenty years earlier, when he was a lieutenant in the Russian Air Force. Vasin also lives a life of regrets, and wishes he was able to pursue his unfulfilled dream of becoming a film director. In the second act, "A Film Director", Maria is transported into a different reality. In this reality, she marries Vasin, and he becomes a film director. The plot questions whether they are truly happy with each other, despite having their wishes granted.
Two women are in love with the same man. After his death, some kind of friendship comes into being.
