They didn't know each other existed. But the meeting in the rural backwoods to lake forest turned the rest of their lives. Now they can't live without each other. Clean and clear water of the lake and purified the body and soul... And what could be nicer to a hot summer day to swim in the refreshing waters of the natural lake
Sasha and his girlfriend Lisa have decided to travel to Venice after they graduate from college, but Lisa's parents have different ideas. They are hoping to secure a prestigious job for their daughter by introducing her to an influential family friend - Leonid Yakovlevich and his son Igor.While Lisa continues to prepare for her trip, she begins to spend more and more evenings with Igor, and, even though the tickets have already been bought and Lisa is packing her suitcase, a call from Igor changes her plans - Ten years later, Igor and Lisa are married with a daughter while Sasha has become a successful lawyer, but when Sasha and Lisa meet one day at a college reunion, it is obvious that the passion between them has never gone away.
Europe, 1709. Russia and Sweden are at war. Two French duelists are exiled by King Louis XIV of France: one to the side of Czar Peter the Great of Russia, the other to the side of King Charles XII of Sweden. Although separated by war and allegiance, fate has not finished with them.
Based on the novel by Booker Prize Winner Ludmila Ulitskaya, The Funeral Party is set in August 1991. In a sweltering New York City apartment, a group of Russian émigrés gathers round the deathbed of an artist named Alik, a charismatic character beloved by them all, especially the women who take turns nursing him as he fades from this world. Their reminiscences of the dying man and of their lives in Russia are punctuated by debates and squabbles: Whom did Alik love most? Should he be baptized before he dies, as his alcoholic wife, Nina, desperately wishes, or be reconciled to the faith of his birth by a rabbi who happens to be on hand? And what will be the meaning for them of the Yeltsin putsch, which is happening across the world in their long-lost Moscow but also right before their eyes on CNN?
A convict named Valiko, a Georgian by nationality, accidentally took part in a prison escape. But local villagers mistake him for a new Franch teacher and employ him in their local school.
Maria, the wife of a successful official from St. Petersburg, met with a provincial engineer. A chance meeting of spiritually close people becomes the beginning of the history of Sizzling passion, which ended tragically.
Knowing that he will soon pass on, elderly Valentin Grack hires private detective Stanislav to follow him around for an entire day and write down everything that he does. It is a cold day and during Grack's travels he encounters a younger woman who addresses him as professor. He then meets a prostitute who turns out to be his daughter, and finally he meets an old woman, his worried wife who has been searching eight days for him. In between meeting the women, Grack finds himself in some almost surreal situations and having flashbacks about his youth.
