The Beginning (2016)

Two young directors adapted the short stories of two Russian authors whose works had been banned for decades, and so their film ended up in the censor’s vault as well – for twenty years. Both tales look back to the post-revolutionary era: 'Angel' speaks tragically of the brutality and destruction of the time, and 'The Homeland of Electricity' captures its haunting grotesquery.

A new modern communist youth shoe store The shoe house is opening in a city. School graduates headed by Tamara Berezina are sent there on a business trip for work. Now all kind of problems and defects of modern services sector are in front of them. And Tamara with her team just cant put up with one of these defects and start the fight. The fact is that the factory situated in the city floods their store with inferior shoes, in chase of going over the quota. With help of mass media in the face of young journalist, fellows are trying to change the existing state of things.

A talented girl from the provincial Russian town Pasha Stroganova dreams of becoming an actress. She plays the role of Baba Yaga in the amateur theatre — and does it so organically that the visiting filmmaker offers her the most difficult role in the historical drama about Joan of Arc. She was given not only great acting talent, but the talent of deep, selfless love. A dream comes true: she is invited to the main role, and she begins a completely different life, full of real creative torment, insights and true happiness.

But the lives of the Kikoriki are suddenly turned upside-down when they stumble on a strange device they had only heard about - a TV.

1829年、サンクトペテルブルク。腕の立つ探偵グローと知り合った駆け出しの作家ニコライ・ゴーゴリは、若い美女だけが狙われる連続猟奇殺人事件を調査するため、ウクライナの小さな村へやってくる。探偵グローは、ゴーゴリがその村の近くの出身で土地勘があることに加え、異世界の者とつながる神秘の力を持っていることから、彼を同伴者に選んだのだった。ゴーゴリは自分でも制御できない悪夢の力によって、事件の真相に近づいていくが……。