Andrey Dudarenko

In 1953, the year Stalin died, many prisoners (some political, but mostly common criminals) were released from the Soviet Gulags. This is the story of a remote settlement which was under attack by a bunch of these recently-released blood-thirsty thugs in the summer of 1953, and the townspeople, along with a two political prisoners, who try to stop them.

Russian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin's Great Purge. Ivan Lapshin, the head of the local police, does what he has to do. And he does it well.

The film, based on the war stories by Andrei Platonov, centers on the story of a soldier Ivan Vladyko. The war is over and Ivan begins to search for his son, who disappeared after their native village burned down. During the search he meets a woman with three children who takes a lively part in his fate.

Varya Berezina has just graduated from high school. My parents are getting divorced, my beloved grandmother is pestering me about the meaning of life. Mishka is a good guy — he loves Varka very much, but he doesn't understand a lot. Having not received the documents, she leaves for the city to her sister. My sister has a big new apartment, a good husband and a dear family friend — neighbor Vissarion Arkadyevich. He is a doctor and everyone loves him. He helps Varka to enter the institute, but she has neither documents nor knowledge. My sister is very worried. And Varka gets a job in a hospital, where he can often see a doctor and be with people. When Vissarion Arkadyevich is transferred to Leningrad, Varka returns to the village.

"Male students are not allowed to enter the female dormitory." This sign hangs at the entrance, but the men's still climb into the Windows. Seeing this craving for beauty, the authorities of the provincial town decided to improve the financial situation by opening a brothel, while maintaining the chastity of the fairer sex…

In their youth, they loved each other, but broke up. Ilya got married, became a doctor, Sasha learned to become an engineer, got married. And now they are together again, at a small, deaf station. They introduced themselves as husband and wife. In fact, while he is married to another, and she has the experience of a failed marriage. For eight days they will be in a remote stop where no one knows them and no one will interfere with love...

After returning from the army, Rustam easily and naturally fits into the environment of workers from a petrochemical plant. The almost boyish carelessness and irresponsible pastime is replaced by an understanding of one's own need for a common cause, and a sense of inner dignity arises. This is what makes Rustam not reconcile himself to the fact that the brigade in which he works is among the laggards and is characterized by indiscipline. Having become a foreman, Rustam tries to create a healthy working atmosphere, takes part in the fate of Sagat, who recently returned from prison, rejects the attempts of the head of the shop to bribe the trust of the brigade with a "fake" salary. And outside the factory, he acts from a position of active kindness, although sometimes, helping others, he forgets about himself, does not have time to sort out the relationship with his girlfriend Lucy...

The end of the XVIII century. The reign of Catherine II. In the deep Russian provinces, among the vast steppes of the Ural escaped convict Yemelyan Pugachev proclaimed himself Emperor Peter III of Russia. Under the banner of the Pretender embarked detachments of Cossacks, fugitive serfs, and many spirited people. In these troubled times in the God-forsaken Belogorsk young officer Pyotr Grinyov meets his first love - Masha, the daughter of Captain Mironov. Recklessly passionate love with each other did not want to notice the signs of impending trouble. They did not know that soon they will be an ordeal. They could not imagine how bizarre way their fates intertwined with the fate of the self-proclaimed king, and what an incredible effort will be worth it to save their lives and feelings in the bloody chaos of Russian riot.

A Georgian truck driver falls in love with Olga. The film follows their adventures and misadventures as they try to overcome the obstacles of distance, culture, and bureaucracy to be together.

Andrey Krutitsky is investigating the case of the strange suicide of a young mother. Before slitting her wrists, she strangled her son Kolya with a pillow. After talking to the investigator her lover also commits suicide. By then Andrey understands that he has encountered something abnormal, inexplicable and scary.

1918. A Red Army soldier Fyodor Krohov, authorized to withdraw farmers corn surpluses, comes to a small village, where White Guard can show up any day. He must persuade peasants to hand over the surpluses. But men are hesitating, some lend an ear to a wealthy peasant Mokey Zhlobin, unwilling to give away his hided corn. The only one person, backing up Fyodor is a local self-made inventor, living in the outskirts with his beloved beauty-wife, having equipped his house with electricity, power-saw bench and other gimmicks. The inventor takes him as a close friend and his young wife falls in love with Fyodor. The love triangle appears, but their ideals are above all. Together they manage to find the hidden corn and survive in uneven battle with bandits who rushed into a village.

A successful Moscow doctor, who has his own clinic, comes to his father in Minsk. His father was once one of the leading doctors of the city, and now he turned out to be unnecessary and forgotten. His son helps him start a new business. But it turns out that the father's worst enemy is his most reliable girlfriend.

The events of the film take place in the first days of May 1966. Nikolai Kuznetsov, a distinguished veteran of the Great Patriotic War and former camp guard, accidentally meets one of his former prisoners. This encounter leads to new meetings—and new insights into the years that have passed...

An old man in need of care and attention moves to his son in the city. But soon the son and his wife send the old man to a shelter for the elderly. However, the grandson, who loved his grandfather and understood the cruelty of what is happening, leaves his parents and takes the old man to his future wife.

A junior employee of the Forest Research Institute is sent to collect mushrooms. In the forest, he meets a strange old woman, receives a silver horn and a magic club as a gift from her, and after some time ends up in prison as a counterfeiter. His connections with the mysterious old woman do not end there.

Two detectives are fighting a criminal gang which is steeling goods from the abandoned radioactive area.

Upon returning from the front, Ivan Lukich discovered that his wife had been unfaithful to him. He left her and their daughter. Later, Ivan attempted to locate them, but was unsuccessful. Years passed. He now has another family, grown children, and a grandson. Quite by chance, he encounters Lisa, his daughter, who is convinced that her father died at the front.

When Nina Klementyevna, a young scientist, created her laboratory, Zoya became her loyal and devoted assistant. Many years later, having raised three children, Zoya Dmitrievna, a laboratory assistant, meets San Sanych, a kind but weak-willed and drinking man. And the relationship with Nina Klimentievna is collapsing...

Set around the Volga river, the story begins around 1900, when Russian peasants are let free and allowed to own their farmlands. But soon they suffer from losses during the 1917 Russian Revolution and the following Civil War. Then, the major national catastrophe is started by Stalin: his communist government kills millions of farmers and steals all their food supplies, causing the longest and deadliest famine all over central Russia during the 1920s and 1930s.

A 'runaway' homeless man, once a renowned athlete, finds himself marooned in the small, snow-covered town of Zarechensk. Victor lands a job at an orphanage, where he soon meets a young teacher who becomes both a compassionate friend and the love of his life. However, fate doesn't play out simply as good or bad; it unfolds in a way that makes the hero realize one cannot run away from oneself. Consequently, it is in Zarechensk that a train carrying a film crew from the capital, on their way back to Moscow, is compelled to delay their journey for a few days. Remarkably, Zarechensk becomes the place where a director finally discovers the perfect actress for his leading role and encounters a man who has fled from her love. Meanwhile, a producer makes the ultimate decision to select this town as the filming location for her upcoming movie.