Tatjana Manevskaja

Estonyalı ünlü eskrimci Endel Nelis’in hayat hikayesinden filme aktarılan film, 2. Dünya Savaşı sırasında Rusya’da gizli polis teşkilatından kaçmak amacıyla Leningrad’dan Estonya’ya kaçarak orada en büyük tutkusu olan eskrim sporunu çocuklara öğretmesini anlatıyor. Nelis, öğretmen olarak çalışmaya başladığı okulda bir eskrim kulübü kurar ve Rusya işgali sırasında birçoğu öksüz kalmış çocuklar için bir idol ve baba figürüne dönüşür. Film, bu yıl hem Altın Küre, hem de Oscar ödüllerinde En İyi Yabancı Film kategorisinde aday olmuştu.

The film is about one of the greatest social hot spots in Estonia during the Soviet times when apartments were distributed by the state, telling the story of a real estate agent and a homeless man. Mass immigration in 1944-1988 led to demographic conflict. Free apartments were mainly given to immigrants despite the fact that local people badly needed places of residence as well. They are not tourists, they live here, but they haven't got a home.

Johannes, a young Ingrian Finn, grows up in Soviet Estonia with his liberal student mother and pro-Soviet grandmother. The boy's life is revolutionized when he experiences first love and his mother decides to leave for Finland.

The film is based on the best choreographic numbers from the performances of the Leningrad Music Hall, songs of pop stars and romances performed by popular singers. The concert numbers are united by the storyline of the participation of all performers in the filming of a musical comedy film.

He has appearance, abilities, intelligence, but exchanged everything for women, bringing them mostly grief, deceiving them and extracting everything he could from those who were older and richer. But then they saw through him and sent him out as a choreographer to the provinces, where he literally died. There arose a natural, but at the same time unnatural friendship and enmity with a drug addict nicknamed Buryy (Brown). This relationship brought Fuflo (Junk), as Buryy nicknamed him, to murder.

An inconspicuous, modest accountant, Sulin often finds himself in half-funny, half-sad situations - he is often timid, afraid to cross at least someone. Until one day an incident helped him remember that he, too, was once decisive and brave.

Sergey, a radio factory worker, a part-time student, and Nelya, an Intourist guide, got married relatively recently, but are already experiencing a serious family crisis. The first difficulties of life threaten to destroy their marriage. Young spouses have to combine their studies with work, live with their little daughter in a private apartment, and experience financial difficulties. Everyday life began to annoy Nella, but her husband annoys her even more. Sergey is a good man who loves his wife and daughter, but to his wife he seems clumsy, clumsy, too soft and therefore unable to stand up for himself. Volkov, the head of the department where Nelya works, is another matter. The complete opposite of Sergei, on the contrary, he is an enterprising, successful man, a real man and a standard of reliability…

The story of the trial of the trade union boss Jack Rafferty. With great force and astute critical insight, corruption and crime are exposed, accompanying the advancement of Western leaders to power.

The film takes place in Leningrad and Sverdlovsk, in 1970 and 1979. Arriving on a business trip from Sverdlovsk in the Lenfilm, engineer catapults Sergei Gushchin meets a young actress Natasha. She invites him to show Leningrad, but Gushchin and he knows the city - he served here during the war. They are looking for an excuse for further meetings, but he always finds a reason to not to meet with the woman who is many years younger than him and with whom he has fallen in love with. Natasha understands too that she loves this man, but Gushchin leaves, and not daring to associate with her fate. In the end he leaves and only returns to Leningrad nine years later and then he tries to find Natasha again.

A group of women create an organization named "Kättemaksukontor" to fight for the rights of women and help solve murder mysteries for the police.