In the remote Ukrainian village of Dykanka, handsome but poor Vakula loves the beautiful Oksana, but she's holding out for a wealthy prince, and her father doesn't think much of him either. On Christmas Eve she sends him on a ridiculous quest for dancing shoes that takes him all the way to the...
Story of a successful businessman, who has to protect his business in difficult conditions. He gets entrapped into the net of law enforcement structures and after arrest the protagonist starts to notice weird things: some of his interlocutors appear to be not real persons, but phantoms, created by...
One day Nina lost her job and a close friend. Unexpectedly for herself, she meets a teenage girl Masha, who, like Nina, is experiencing a moment of universal loneliness.
Max Pavlov - talented, confident and a little ... desperate. He does not like ordinary life and quiet work. Max is an extreme climber who single-handedly conquered the peaks of the Pamirs and the Himalayas. He is successful in business and in love, loyal to his girlfriend Marina. He has a best...
During the final winter of WWII, as displaced persons return to their former homes in the Soviet Union, an 8-year-old boy is left alone when his mother dies en route.
Larisa is a young woman in her early thirties with a successful career in a travel agency. She has enough money but leads a monotonous lonely life. One day Gera, a man from her past, reappears, tells her that he had divorced his wife and wants them to get back together. Larisa though doesn't want...
An ordinary funeral procession moves along its path from church to cemetery. Observing, you slip from reality into a place where time has lost its linearity, looping through the odd images thrown off by a distorted reality. Images of non-existence, of varying reflections of death issuing from both...
"Happy People" tells about well-to-do and rich friends faced with an entertainment problem. There is nothing for them to be happy about. The resulting crisis is obvious to all, so the friends agree on the following game: every Wednesday, one player gives the other a task which is to be carried out...
A woman is paid a surprise visit by her long-forgotten classmate, who needs her advice: should he choose a wife or a lover? An outrageously burlesque mise-en-scène is repeated many times but each time in a different place and performed by new actors. Why?
The king struggles to find a wife for his son, who is solely interested in science. An astrologer advises the king to host a grand royal ball. Cinderella, eager to attend, is forced by her stepmother and stepsisters to make dresses for them. Once the dresses are ready, they leave her behind with...
Forty years old is a perfect age to change ones life. The hero makes a decision to quit the psychotherapist's cabinet, which he is sick and tired of and become a poet. To become a freelance artist. A trifle remained to cope with to persuade the wife.
The day before his wedding, handsome and merry Figaro learns of the bride Susanna, but he has a rival - voluptuous Count Almaviva. Count intends to use the old right of the first night in his possessions and to steal from the lovers their happiness. The case becomes more complicated as another...
Husband and wife want to move to a new apartment. During their 10-minute dialogue we get an idea of the real estate market in Kyiv and the priorities of the citizens. Three drug-addicted teenagers are planning their evening, also discussing Kyiv's nightlife. In a sauna, two discharged cooks are...
On his birthday, the famous dentist falls into the hands of cruel nurses, called from the mysterious subconscious by voluntary anesthesia. The plot of the picture covers only one day in the life of the characters, real and imaginary. The heroes find themselves in a cycle of events, in rented...
The special feature of this film was the unusual story of its creation. The director invited actors to the casting. They tried and demonstrated their skills, but in fact, they had already acted in Shapiro's films. Thus, the film consists of 37 independent episodes.
