Nora Gryakalova

A film director Nikolai Khudokormov is on the brink of his 50th anniversary. He has the whole life rich in events under his belt: creative quests, several marriages and children. Now he has to live with an old insane Mother and seems to be indifferent to what is going on around. But at the same time he is obsessed by the idea to make a film which will be his best one. Nikolai makes every effort to raise the money for this project. And all the time he is followed by a mysterious stranger. She is a beautiful young creature who speaks to him about the vanity of the world and the meaningless of a human life. Finally, Nikolai realizes that he is speaking to the Death herself.

Rusia Imperial. Cuando Anna Karenina, una bella aristócrata infelizmente casada, conoce a Alexei Vronsky, un apuesto militar con un futuro prometedor, entre ambos surge un tempestuoso y apasionado romance que mantendrán en secreto. Pero pronto los rumores invadirán las altas esferas, provocando un escándalo que marcará el destino de los amantes.

Homeless, all thrown Mephistopheles is suffering from idleness and boredom. In a market where you can buy everything - from gralic to books on Russian history, he manages to find the soul of a ballet dancer.

У них - одна внешность, но разные характеры. Им выпала искусительная возможность поменяться местами, то есть "вкусить" чужую жизнь. Но не всегда получается так, как надеешься. И невинная игра может окончиться трагично. Чье же оно - лицо смерти?

La civilización humana ha sido destruida, aunque quedan vestigios de ella. Un hombre llega a un paraje con la intención de visitar un famoso museo que ha quedado aislado en medio del mar. Los habitantes del lugar, que mantienen ciertas costumbres del pasado, se relacionan con unos extraños seres embrutecidos, que viven aislados en una especie de colonia. El interés del visitante por el museo se va transformando en una obsesión por entender las manifestaciones religiosas de los confinados.

Actors adapting Mikhail Lermontov's "Bela" are imbued with the lives of their characters, shown from the perspective of the Russian officer scouting locations in the Chechen landscape.

En "Corazón de perro" un médico que investiga el rejuvenecimiento humano implanta en el cerebro de un vapuleado, pero amable y reflexivo perro callejero, la hipófisis de un delincuente. El perro, lejos de rejuvenecer, se transforma en un ser humano física y moralmente repulsivo, que termina por afiliarse al partido comunista y consigue ser nombrado "subdirector del subdepartamento de limpieza de animales vagabundos", convirtiendo la vida del atribulado científico en una pesadilla.

After the war, the instructor of the district committee Kolychev comes to the village of Usachyovka, which was burned by the Germans, in order to help people move to new lands. But not everyone wanted to leave their homes. Many flatly refused to leave. The coming spring thaw cut them off from the outside world. But the impending famine and the first peace days of spring brought everyone who remained together, among whom was Borka, the son of a fleeing policeman

Tras una guerra nuclear, los supervivientes se han refugiado en bunkers subterráneos para protegerse del invierno nuclear. Sin embargo, una nueva generación encuentra la forma de crear una nuevo sistema de vida sobre la Tierra.

Lopushansky's second film focuses on a few hours in the life of a soloist musician during the siege of Leningrad, in WWII. The Leningrad philharmonic is going to play Tchaikovsky's 5th Symphony, which is to be broadcast to England. The soloist, like his fellow musicians, is weak and half-starved, and doubts whether he will be able to perform well enough.