Mikhail Eliseev

An ordinary working class boy, like all his peers, he played football day and night and dreamed of being a striker. But no matter which team he played for - in the yard, at the factory, or in the army - he was inevitably put in goal.

Film, Birinci Dünya Savaşı’nda Rus Kraliyet Donanması’nda görevli Amiral iken Bolşevik Devrimi’nin ardından Beyaz Ordu’nun komutasına geçip Bolşevik’lere karşı savaşan Aleksandr Vasiliyevich Kolchak’ın duygusal ilişkisini konu edinirken aynı zamanda Rus Tarihi’ne farklı bir açıdan yaklaşıyor. Bolşevik Devrimi’ni ve Komünist Yönetimi yanlı bir şekilde eleştirdiği iddia edilen film, vatan haini olarak addedilen Amiral Kolchak’ı kahraman olarak gösteriyor olması sebebiyle tepkilere yol açtı. Özellikle Rus Tarihçiler tarafından eleştirilmesinin yanında afişleri kimliği belirsiz kişilerce tahrip edildi. 9 Ekim 2008 tarihinde Rusya'da gösterime giren, altı milyondan fazla kişi tarafından izlenen film eleştirilerin yanında oyuncuların performanslarıyla beğeni topladı.

Russian troops occupied Paris. Russia became the first power in the world. Now everything seems possible. Young winners, guards officers, are sure that equality and freedom will come - here and now. For this they are ready to sacrifice everything - position, wealth, love, life ... and the country itself.

In a military town, lost in the woods it's own life goes on. The town is quite well-being, but it has everything - good and bad. The investigator comes to the town, he's conducting the case of the theft of the forest in the area surrounding the military unit. Bitter enemies - Apraksin and Bragin are faced with a choice - to solve their personal problems or to eliminate bandits. The duty is stronger - both come into the battle with the criminal gang.

During the post-WW2 reconstruction in Russia, bald-headed technocrat Drozhdov equates communism with the empowerment of the ordinary man over the arrogant "specialness" of genius. Dedicated scientist Lopatkin takes refuge in Moscow with the potty, brilliant old inventor Busko. Lopatkin works tirelessly on his invention, embarking on a roller-coaster of rejection and acceptance, his work vilified, plucked apart and plagiarized by colleagues, particularly by his nemesis Drozhdov. Drozhdov's wife Natasha, alienated from her cold, controlling husband, is increasingly drawn to Lopatkin, whom she knew when they both taught at the same school. Soon she runs away from her husband and happily keeps house for the two absent-minded ex-professors Lopatkin and Busko. Natasha is ready to give Lopatkin her own life, love and faith. Lopatkin is eager to sacrifice his life for the idea, doing the utmost for his motherland.

It was a time with a rise of artistic life in the former capital of Russia. But the rise ended quickly and tragically with arrests and executions. Modern St. Petersburg and Petrograd of 1921 strangely and intricately intertwine in the mind of the director. The cruel, bloody, but romantic world of the first years of the Revolution converge with the artistic and domestic life of contemporary filmmaking on the same ground, on the same streets and squares.

The life pages of a man who changed the world but paid back everything he had. Leon Trotsky is being interviewed in Mexico city of the year 1940 by Canadian journalist Frank Jackson. During eight days they have eight interview sessions revealing the true face of Comrade Trotsky.

Three friends, Sergey Fedotov, Nurali Aslanbekov and Andrey Khomenko, Russian, Kazakh and Ukrainian, served and fought together in Afghanistan. After being injured in the hospital, all three of them took care of the same girl. Fate has divorced friends.