Nataliya Soldatova

Valentina lives in a small village, works at the post office. A young woman does not formally take her work, she is always ready to help those who need it. Villagers love and respect Valya, and at the same time sympathize with her ...

Post-WWII Russia, industrial city of Sverdlovsk. Former opera singer and mother to four children, Nina Levitskaya knows nothing about the fate of her husband. Communist party functionary Alexander disappeared almost a year ago and is now rumored to be in Moscow. With life becoming increasingly hard for the family, Nina decides to risk it all in hope of a reunion. She hastily sells everything she can, gathers her children, and sets out for the capital.

A lonely girl with a scythe appears in a Moscow street on New Year's Eve.

Sex, alcohol and violence define the people of a city in defeat in this downbeat drama from writer and director Katya Shagalova. As a teenager, Nastia (Yulia Peresild) was the star of a popular television series, but now her career is in decline and her father, an officer in the Russian army, has kicked her out of the house.

A group of work colleagues miss their flight by accident and avoid a plane crash, which prompts each of them to consider the paths their lives have taken and their unrealised dreams.