Konservy (2007) (Tins, Russian: Консервы) is a film about a journalist who possesses information on uranium sales and is set up by his enemies and sent to prison. Initially the film was planned as a political thriller, but along the way it gained features of action with elements of mysticism and surrealism.The film is full of vivid pictures of spy and terrorist games in Moscow, modern Gulag in the Far North, gold mines, escape with elite spetsnaz in the pursuit, underground community of permanently high punks, and other quite unusual settings.
Un ex investigador criminal, el mayor Korenev, con nombre de pila Fox, sale de la cárcel después de haber sido engañado por el rey de la mafía, Shaman. Cuando vuelve a la ciudad, se encuentra un nuevo mundo gobernado por clanes criminales enfrentados entre sí y un enorme caos que reina en las calles. Siendo testigo de la muerte de sus amigos, Fox decide reestablecer la ley y el orden utilizando los métodos menos ortodoxos. Asesinos a sueldo le siguen la pista y la mafia no descansará hasta dar con él en una salvaje persecución llena de violencia.
A middle-aged woman Ksenia (N. Yegorova) has a usual regular life: routine work in typography, home without husband, whom she has long divorced, 17-year old daughter with teenage problems, a friend, trying to give her in marriage. In short, nothing special. Though sometimes she sings in a local chorus for the good of her soul. But once a head of municipal folklore consort drops in, and they get into conversation, and he invites her to the run-through. She comes, tries her forces with the others, but for some reason she is not let to the concerts She gets acquainted with a nimble administrator, who gathers a concert group and proposes to go on tour. She agrees and changes her life dramatically.
