Vadim Franchuk

1994 yılı yapımı "Güneş Yanığı" adlı filmin devamı niteliğinde olan film, 2 ayrı bölüm olarak çekilmiştir. Bu ikinci bölümün adı ise "The Citadel" (Kale)'dir. Yönetmen Mikhalkov’un üçlemesinin bu son bölümünde, İkinci Dünya Savaşı sırasında ihanete uğrayıp, esir kampında vatan hainliği iddiasıyla idam edilmekten kurtulan Albay Kotov, savaşın bitmesiyle eve döner. Ne var ki, hiçbir şey eskisi gibi değildir. Kotov, bu kez de ismi, onuru ve aşkı için savaşmak zorundadır.

Gençlerin amacı, kazı yaptıkları eski savaş alanını paha biçilemez tarihi eserler bulabilmek için talan etmektir. Alanda çok değerli silahlara, madalyalara ve belgelere rastlarlar. Bu çok tehlikeli bir iştir ve cesur dörtlü toprağın altında, içinde iskeletlerin ve eski fotoğraflı hatıra defterinin bulunduğu gizli bir bölme keşfederler.

Marina (Alyona Babenko) is a journalist contemplating retiring, bored of writing stories of serial killers and murders that are front page news one day, and then are quickly forgotten the next. At a large house a lawyer is holed up, police are in the front garden, snipers on the roof and the lawyer asks for Marina. She’s a little surprised by this as she and the lawyer have only crossed paths a few times during her career, but agrees to go to the lawyers house. Arriving at the house she’s confronted by the large police presence, she’s given a quick debrief of the situation and requested not to go into the house. She declines and enters the house. Just inside the front door is the lawyers wife, she tell Marina that he’s lost it and locked the children in their rooms and that he’s going to kill them all.

Young Alisa is fed up with her life in Moscow, and moves to St. Petersburg. Her roommates in the collective flat are two junkies, Vel and her boyfriend Valera the Dead Man. First they fight, but soon the two women form a friendship. Together they even go after the Petersburg underworld when Dead Man is abducted because he can't pay his debts.

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».

A stylish arrangement in a modern way of a number of classic love stories – "Carmen", "Orpheus and Eurydice", "Don Quixote", "Cyrano de Bergerac", "Hamlet". Each episode is a complete story with its own characters, they are united only by the place of action – the city of Rostov–on-Don. It is always summer here, women are beautiful and men are courageous, there is a high sky and a blue river, everyone is happy here or could be happy…