Valentina Nejmorovec

1971, Leningrad. Ölümünden sonra ünlenecek Rus yazar Sergei Dovlatov, günlerini yazılarının yayımlanmasının koşulu olan Yazarlar Sendikası’na üyeliğini kovalayıp ufak yazı işleriyle geçirir. Akşamları ise caz dinlenen partilerde kentteki sanatçı ve yazarlarla bir araya gelir. Under Electric Clouds’un yönetmeni Alexey German Jr., Berlin’de dünya prömiyerini yapan yeni filminde Dovlatov’un hayatından altı günü anlatıyor ve bu hikâye üzerinden dönemin entelektüel çevresi ve onların Brejnev zamanı Sovyetler Birliği’yle ilişkisinin de portresini sunuyor.

A story of a successful businessman who falls in love with a silent movies actress and starts to look everywhere for a woman who looks exactly like her.

Elena Mihailovna, having worked all her life in the only school of a provincial town, lives modestly in retirement. Unexpectedly she learns of a fatal diagnosis, which can at any moment end her life. Instead of an unbearable anticipation, she resolutely begins the preparation for her own death, in order to simplify the procedure for her son. She has not seen her only son for over five years because he worrks in the capital. Oleg is constantly busy, and he does not have time for his lonely mother. At the same time with all the new problems, the heroine receives as a gift a huge carp, which changes her life.

A young Russian teacher named Anna reports being raped by her influential friends, sparking a controversial case that exposes the dark pasts of those involved.