Elderly Woman
Tras el final de la Guerra Fría, el agente británico Harry Palmer pierde su trabajo de espía. Sin embargo, y de manera extrañamente rápida, recibe una misteriosa llamada con una oferta de trabajo. El jefe del crimen ruso Alex quiere que Harry le ayude a recuperar un arma bioquímica mortal llamada "la Muerte Roja", que le han robado. Alex está dispuesto a pagarle mucho dinero para que la encuentre, pero a Harry le desaconsejan que se involucre en esta nueva aventura.
Mariya Olegovna
Un profesor de música que ha perdido su trabajo se tiene que mudar a una habitación en un modesto edificio, cuyo último ocupante fue una anciana muerta hace más de un año. Esxtrañamente, encuentra a su gato encerrado en el armario, perfectamente sano y bien alimentado. Pronto se descubrirá el por qué del misterio, en esa habitación hay una ventana que comunica directamente la fría y empobrecida capital rusa nada más y nada menos que con París.
An adaptation of Flannery O'Connor short stories.
A slice of life among Russian intelligentsia on the eve of WWII. A haunting reminder of Stalin's psychotic purge of 1938 and the nightmarish German siege of Leningrad.
Un hombre intenta llegar a un acuerdo con la muerte de su padre y tratar con los detalles mundanos de su entierro en una sociedad aislada de la espiritualidad.
About the death of Aleksandr Pushkin, the leading poet and writer of Russia, who was shot on a duel and died when he was 37.
A Soviet film adaptation of Tolstoy's 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich.'
Vasilisa
Boris Pavlovich Raisky, a bored Petersburg aesthet, comes to his family estate in a small town on the Volga. He hoped to find boredom and the faint-hearted provincials there, and did not expect that in the outback he was waiting for real life, dramatic love and serious passions. Boris Raisky’s estate is a blessed corner where everything pleases the eye: a native old house, tender greenery of birches and lindens, a silver strip of the Volga in the distance. And only a mysterious precipice at the end of the garden frightens the inhabitants of the estate. According to legend, at the bottom of it in ancient times, a jealous husband killed his wife and rival. “Precipice” is a symbolic word in the fate of the main character Vera. It fell to her to fall in love with a nihilist and a cynic who preaches "love for a term", painfully choose between feeling and duty, finally, go down to her beloved person in a cliff, cut off everything that connected with her former life...
The Woman in the Crowd of People Seeing Off (uncredited)
Umberto Nobile (Peter Finch) fue el comandante del dirigible "Italia", que en 1928 voló hacia el Polo Norte y se estrelló, causando un reguero de víctimas mortales. Los fantasmas de los que fallecieron se le aparecen ahora para recordarle su culpabilidad y lo que debía haber hecho tanto antes como después del accidente, durante las labores de rescate de la tripulación.
Анна Васильевна
A little girl named Katherine saved one boy's life during the bombing in Leningrad while under the Siege in WWII. The boy cannot speak yet. So she gave him a name Seryozha and provided him with food and care. She was later adopted by the boy's father, who recognized his son.
Wardrobe Mistress
Paris, the middle of the XIX century. Young Marius Petipa is going on a long journey to St. Petersburg, where he is invited to become the first dancer. He doesn't know that his life will develop both happily and dramatically, and his work will be the glory and pride of Russian ballet.
townswoman
It is year 1900 in Pre-Revolutionary Russia and Deacon Olympius begins to take interest in secular literature. When he stumbles upon a book by Tolstoy, he is humbled and inspired to lead a just life. Based on a story by Aleksandr Kuprin.
