During an election campaign, a large sum of money goes missing at an Estonian politician's home party. The story involves some party guests who have serious money problems and are trying to come to terms with past mistakes. However, the self-confident politician strangely does not turn to the...
The story is as old as the world: Yaroslav's mother-in-law dislikes Lida's daughter-in-law and tries to convince her son that her predecessor was much better.
Lenfilm's most recent major production spins a kind of historical fantasy based on real incidents that's full of ominous implications for today. One night, a patrol rushes into the chambers of the Russian prince Pavel, son of the Empress Catherine; the Empress has died, and Pavel is to be anointed...
Eternal Variations: "Demon", "Theseus" and "Faust" The second short story "Theseus" is the author's interpretation of the Ancient Greek myth about Theseus and the Minotaur.
A band of determined Russian soldiers fight to hold a strategic building in their devastated city against a ruthless German army, and in the process become deeply connected to a Russian woman who has been living there.
The story is about a doctor who found himself on the front line during COVID-19, but fell victim to the virus himself. The image of the hero consists of real memories of doctors and patients whose voices are heard off-screen.
In the "Little Tragedies", the main universal, eternal conflicts receive a specific interpretation: things, ideas and people collide. This is a "shifted" world, everything is at a breaking point here: the immobile moves, love triumphs on coffins, a subtle aesthetic sense leads to murder, and feasts...
