Aleksey Chardymskiy

Boris ve Arkady Strugatsky’nin 1964 tarihli kült romanının 1989’da yazarların izni olmadan ilk kez sinemaya uyarlanışından bu yana merakla beklenen Tanrı Olmak Zor İş, ne yazık ki ancak yaratıcısı Aleksey German’ın ölümünden sonra tamamlanabildi ve prömiyerini 2013 Roma Film Festivali’nde yaptı. Stalker’a da ilham kaynağı olan Strugatsky kardeşler de filmin bu yetkin uyarlamasını görecek kadar yaşayamadı. Hikâye, ortaçağdaymış gibi yaşayan ve pagan bir tanrının sözde oğlu tarafından yönetilen insanların yaşadığı Arkanar gezegeninde geçiyor. Dünya’dan bir elçi, insani fikirleri yaymak amacıyla Arkanar’a gidiyor. Aleksey German bu son filminde Tanrı ile insan arasındaki hiyerarşiye bir bakış atıyor

Based on Franz Kafka's The Castle. A certain K. appears in a snow-covered godforsaken village as if out of nowhere. All the power in the village belongs to the mysterious Castle that strangers are barred from accessing. K. presents himself to the locals as the Land Surveyor "summoned by the Governor himself." But he is denied work and a place to stay. The only person that doesn't turn her back on him is barmaid Frieda, lover of the powerful official Klamm. K. seeks a meeting with Klamm thinking that is the only way to get something out of the soulless bureaucratic machine. But without realizing it, he soon begins to play by its rules, setting himself up for inevitable defeat.

The action takes place in Victorian England in the last quarter of the 19th century. 27-year-old amateur detective Sherlock Holmes becomes a bystander to a crime along with Dr. John Watson, a military doctor who has just returned from the war in Afghanistan. During the investigation, Watson, not yet having an apartment in London, settles with Holmes in Mrs. Hudson's «half board», and then takes part in the affairs of his new friend. Watson gives Holmes boxing lessons. Watson himself is an experienced boxer, able to deal with several opponents with his bare hands. In addition, he is an excellent marksman. Considering Holmes a genius, the doctor decides to tell the whole world about his talent and the mysteries he revealed in his stories, where he often embellishes the events («the true story» of which the series presents). Watson is taught to embellish events by the editor-in-chief of the «Morning Chronicle».