During the Russian war with Afghanistan in the 1980s, journalist Charlie Palmer and medic Victor Davis arrive at a P.O.W. camp near the Afghanistan/Pakistan border in order to document the sub-human conditions which the prisoners are forced to endure. During their visit, the prisoners seize control...
White King, Red Queen is a Russian film. The composer Isaak Schwarz won a Nika Award from the Russian Academy of Cinema Arts and Sciences for the film's music.
The husband of a terminally ill Claudia falls in love with a neighbor, Marisha, who helps him with the housework in the absence of his wife. And a year and a half later, Claudia returns from the hospital.
A band of young musicians is looking for fees across the steppe in an ramshackle old bus. During their tour, starving, they kill a cow but they don't know what to do with it. They will also bring happiness in an old people's home in return for food.
Twenty-year-old Bob rides 1000 km to Moscow on his vintage motorbike to collect a bad debt for his boss; the city chews up and spits out this naive country boy, whose head is full of Easy Rider dreams.
The story of Jerken, a young stage director, obsessed with his love for and his life with the theater. Something terrible has happened, a girl has been murdered. In Jerken's diary, he deals with four themes: theater, dreams, the woman he loved, and a friend. An investigator shows up and takes the...