Mikhail Vasserbaum

Lugansk region, May 2014. The Novozhilov family, by chance, finds itself in the thick of events in Lugansk. Vlad Novozhilov is a former participant in the war in Afghanistan. He knows firsthand what war is. Having seen enough of the horrors of war in his time, in principle he does not even want to touch a weapon. In a situation, he sees only one way out - to leave the country. But you can't run away from the war, the border is already closed. To save his family, he will have to make difficult moral choices.

The private part of a young man leaves the owner and starts his own adventure...

A semi-fictional account of the life of Russian poet Joseph Brodsky, who was forced into American exile in 1972.

General Ivolgin, forester Kuzmich, and good-natured Lyova now are going into politics.

Durante los años de Gorbachov, Platon Makovski y sus cuatro amigos son estudiantes universitarios que dan el salto a la iniciativa privada capitalista. Veinte años más tarde, Platon es el hombre más rico de Rusia, y ha sacrificado a sus amigos para alcanzar la cima. Pero este ascenso tan cínico traerá aparejado una caída brutal. (FILMAFFINITY)

Two colleagues go to fetch the body of their co-worker from a neighboring town where that man died unexpectedly. As this person has no kin, the director of the factory chooses to send Markerants and Mityagin to deal with the whole business. And here the adventures begin...

A story about a love between two teenagers set in the small Russian town during sixties.

Starting 1970s. Marina Rodionova gives birth to a child from a donor. Grown up son Andrei she tells the legend of the deceased father. It takes many years. Son of a student accidentally discovers that his father is a professor Hlyuzdin who teaches at his institute. Andrew's friend can not get from Ladder strict professor and then Andrew decides to introduce his father and mother.

The main character is an intellectual from Russia, who sees it as his duty to bring an idiot from an mental institution to his house. He can pick someone out, after bribing the boss of the institution, with two bottles of vodka. He chooses Vova, at first sight a silly man, and takes him home. His wife is at first not very happy with this choice. Vova says and does nothing at all. Then he becomes an aggressive man, who terrorises the house and bashes everything to pieces. After she is raped by Vova, the wife gets sexually dependant on the Idiot. Vova isn't interested anymore, when she gets pregnant and doesn't keep the baby. The idiot goes now to the intellectual for his sexual needs. The wife can't take this anymore and forces her man to take a choice: Vova out, or she will go.

Srubov forma parte de la CHEKA, la policía secreta que Lenin creó después de la revolución Bolchevique y que se encarga de arrestar, interrogar y hacer desaparecer a intelectuales opositores, aristócratas, clérigos y a sus familias. Ejecutados en el sótano del edificio, nadie recordará sus últimas palabras, son solo cuerpos anónimos. Diariamente la misma rutina, el tribunal improvisado, las ejecuciones... cargar los cuerpos en vagones. Srubov es frio, distante, sexualmente disfuncional y odiado por sus antiguos amigos y familia. Mientras intenta razonar sobre la naturaleza de la revolución y el propósito de la CHEKA, va enloqueciendo poco a poco.