Yana Esipovich

II. Dünya Savaşı'nda Alman savaş gücü, Brest kalesine gözleri dönmüş şekilde taaruza geçer. Kaleyi savunmak bir kaç cesur kahramana kalır ve onlarda ellerinden geleni yapar. 22 Haziran 1941 sabahında başlayan saldırı günlerce sürer. Kale içerisinde çaresiz, aç , susuz kalan askerler kanlarının son damlasına kadar savaşır.

Keşiş Anatoly küçük bir manastırda şifa dağıtıyor, şeytan çıkarıyor ve gelecekten haber veriyor, fakat hâlâ İkinci Dünya Savaşı sırasında yaptıkları için pişmanlık duyuyor. Tanrı’nın ona layık gördüğü en büyük sınav ise, uzak bir yerlerden bir amiral ile dengesiz kızının gelmesiyle başlıyor * Sinemanın şaheserlerinden. Yalın ve durağan anlatımlardan hoşlananlar kaçırmasın, mana arayanlar buyursunlar.

Petr, a recently discharged officer, arrives in a tiny mining town in the remote Siberian taiga to hunt for gold. When he finds it, the other prospectors cannot forgive his luck.

Remake film. Russian drama school domination. In the last quarter of graduating class comes a new student, violating all classifications, and an affront to the leader. That, in turn, is ready to do anything not to give up this title until the end of school days. How badly would not have had to deal with those who stand in his path to goal.

This is a collection of portraits: 23 short stories about the Mari women, a sort of Decameron suspended between magic and realism, in which the Autonomous Republic of the Marij El serves as a backdrop for the collective history of a people of ancient tradition. A journey into a mysterious and unknown part of the world.

Most of us say the word "Mama" without thinking. But there are children who have never uttered this word in their lives. The film is about these children, orphans. In these children, no less love than in each of us. And they are waiting. Sometimes too long. But they never cease to believe for a second that one day they will be able to say this simple word. The word "Mama" ...

Diplomat Volodin is going to work in the States for a responsible job. But, having crossed the ocean, he immediately went over to the Americans. And not empty-handed: he calls the American embassy from a pay phone and gives the appearance of a Soviet intelligence officer. The traitor is sure that he will not be identified “by the phone's strangled voice. There can be no such technology. But, on the instructions of the Chekists, such a technique was developed in Marfino's "sharashka" near Moscow by convict engineers and scientists.

Social worker Rita spends her working days in the apartments of lonely elderly people. She refuses no one, helping everyone in need. Rita's life will begin to fall apart as soon as her son finds himself in a situation that leads to his death. And the woman's life will turn into hell.

Somewhere deep, deep in Russia there is a town called Marks (named after Karl Marks, founder of Communism theory) where all people are working on toy factory and receiving their wages as toys. News from other cities are arriving on very rare occasion. One morning, Boris, a former boxing who is running from something, wakes up in train and see four letters MAR_S. From his first steps he starts to meet new people as Gregori, young man with a dream who is in love with local librarian, Greta, whose dream is to get out from this god-forgotten town. With each new step, he is meeting new people, but the past is hard to escape

Two women are in love with the same man. After his death, some kind of friendship comes into being.

This story unites the destinies of the landowners and their servants, and is considered to be one of the most complete portraits of the Russian life in the late XIX century. It takes place in Dry Valley, a village owned by the noble family of Khrushevs. The story tells about Natalia, a young and naive girl who serves in their country house. We see and experience her love, dedication to her masters, mysticism, exile, betrayal and faith, while the Dry Valley is falling to pieces, slowly but inevitably, as well as the lives of its inhabitants.

After her release from prison, Katerina tries to start a new life. After some unsuccessful attempts to find a job, she manages to find work washing dishes in a children’s home. The youngest and most problematic child, Vanya, decides that Katerina is his real mother.

The story is set in a relatively comfortable Stalin-era prison in the town of Marfino where a community of prisoners with highly technical skills do research for the state. Based on the novel by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.