Aleksandr Rakhlenko

Ezilenler, Dostoyevski’nin en gerçekçi yapıtıdır. Anlatıcı kahramanı Vanya’nın Dostoyevski’nin kendisine çok benzeyen bir romancı olmasıdır. Dostoyevski, acıların insanı yücelttiğini,gerçek sevginin ise yaşanan acıların girbabında oluştuğunu anlatmaktadır. Ünlü yönetmen Nikita Mikhalkov’un canlandırdığı, ün ve para peşindeki prens karakteri ise toplumsal çürümenin bir simgesi olarak yer almaktadır.

Paleographer and writer Anton Glebovich Kosmich finds in the binding of an ancient book a parchment with encrypted information about treasures hidden in the dungeon of the castle. It gradually becomes clear that the last scion of the family of the Olshansky princes, who collaborated with the Nazis during the war, is also looking for the treasure. In the dungeon of the castle, along with treasures of the 17th century, materials from the SD archive are also hidden. The spaceman is in mortal danger.

A regular military call-up. Young guys, having got call-up papers and having passed a medical board checkup, enjoy themselves and spend the last days of freedom in different ways: some in discotheques, some in a company of friends outdoors, others are even carousing and scuffling. A colonel Nikitin (Yu. Nazarov) with a group of officers is ordered to accompany conscripts future marines - in a special train to the military service place, situated in the Far East. The whole trip takes several days. Right here, in the train wagons, with no dads and moms round, young conscripts are in for showing their worth and gaining their first experience of real army life.

The late stages of World War II, Soviet Army began rolling into some vital cities which occupied by Germany. Kolya Isaev, a paratrooper is sent to take part the offensives in the Eastern Europe. Autobiographical story by director Yakov Segel about a young man who went to the front of the Great Patriotic War at a young age and reached Berlin.

Yevgeny Yevstigneyev, Georgy Burkov, Leonid Yarmolnik, Galina Polskikh in a sad comedy by Sergey Nikonenko based on Vasily Shukshin’s short stories “Touches on the Portrait”, “The Stubborn One”, “The Strong Go Further”. Nikolai Knyazev works in a TV repair shop. God has blessed him with golden hands and heart, yet the majority of his fellow-town folk think he’s a bit nutty. And for a good reason: he’s constructing a perpetual motion machine, for years has been writing a philosophical treatise, dreaming of world fame and looking down on the other inhabitants of this sinful earth. But no matter how hard he is looking, he can’t see where his happiness (that is, post-office employee Lyuba) lies…

A group of saboteurs was sent into Estonia in 1959. This group included a local resident who also has his own personal goal: to find the daughter he lost at the end of the war while fleeing abroad.

The tragic story of a Russian family forced to make life and death decisions during the Stalinist purges.

Sergeant Shlykov is training young men he will have to fight alongside in Afghanistan. He is meticulous and strict, because he knows that in war, any small detail can cost a life. On his first combat mission to defuse a mine, the sergeant, unwilling to put a young soldier in danger, sends him to get water. Shlykov is killed by a Dushman lying in ambush — and the guys suffer their first combat loss, which is impossible to come to terms with.

The detective story is based on the search for Antonio Stradivari’s missing violin. An additional historical storyline takes the viewer back to the 17th century and focuses on the life of the Master and his work on the violin.