상트 페테르부르크를 배경으로 만들어진 옴니버스 영화. 7명의 여성 감독들이 연출한 각각의 단편들은 사랑과 외로움, 행운과 희망, 그리고 기적에 대해 이야기한다. 현재 러시아의 젊은 감독들이 관찰한 도시의 서로 다른 풍경과 러시아의 잊혀진 영화들에 대한 추억이 특히 흥미로운 작품. (2019 러시아 영화제 - 위대한 유산, 새로운 이름들)
A chronicle of the life of an illiterate Russian peasant woman between 1909 and 1921, focusing on her private life and major historic events in the country.
barefoot woman without skirt
The year is 1917. We are in the Russian countryside. It is the middle of freezing winter. A pale young, newly educated doctor arrives. Having to deal with one medical challenge after another he soon becomes the center of everyone's attention. To soothe the impressions of human suffering he turns to morphine.
Shattering the story of a talented former boxer. He lost his memory. He does not remember what happened yesterday. He can not sleep. Each morning starts with a clean sheet for him. The powers that be decided to use it in my game. As a bargaining chip. He will understand. And revenge. In one day, he needs to catch it.
старушка в день хороших поступков
Vadik Volnov (Garik Kharlamov) dies on his own wedding of cannabis overdose and has to prove to God that he is worthy to enter Heaven. During his conversation with God's secretary, Vadik recalls numerous memorable moments of his earthly existence, such as getting drunk on cognac on his 8th birthday, service in the Soviet Army in Afghanistan, bandit showdowns in crime-ridden 1990s Russia, and, finally, meeting the love of his life.
Four present-day Russian men dig for Nazi memorabilia at a WWII battlefield. A wormhole lake sends them back to a battle in 1942 USSR.
A young boy's dreams of glory and war turn into a bitter nightmare as his father's kingdom is overrun by an invading army. Lost and alone in the woods, he finds an ancient sword that promises him the ability to claim his vengeance.
A sudden hero dressed in all black (including underwear) emerges in the small Russian town to fight for justice.
Svetlana's Relative
평생 강도질로 감옥을 드나들다 옥사한 세르게이 바그로브의 둘째 아들 다니엘라. 다니엘라는 군대에 몸담고 있다가 그만두고 할 일이 없어 집에서 논다. 어느 날 거리를 배회하다 어떤 음악에 이끌려 영화 촬영장까지 다다른다. 촬영장에서의 마찰로 경찰서까지 가게 되자 다니엘라의 엄마는 신세한탄을 하며 다니엘라에게 레닌그라드에 있는 형을 찾아가라고 한다. 형을 찾아가던 다니엘라는 노상 자판을 벌인 독일인을 건달의 손에서 구해주고 그와 친해진다. 레닌그라드에서 형을 만난 다니엘라는 암흑가의 청부업자인 형의 일을 돕기 시작하는데, 어느 새 형이 자신을 배신했다는 걸 알게 되지만 형을 용서한다. 더니엘라는 대도시에서 점점 타락해 가고 약해지는 이간 군상을 보고 회의에 빠지지만 새 삶을 결심한 듯 차를 얻어타고 음악을 들으며 모스크바로 향한다.
The protagonist finds out that some children were left behind in a sinking school, and is slowly driven mad as he tries to save them. A parable on the theme of the Last Judgment, numerous catastrophic events reveal a certain ambiguity in their origins, accompanied by the terrible suspicion that the things going on are some kind of a performance or theatrical production.
Darya
Anya is brought up in an orphanage, she has been in the school of ballroom dancing. She falls in love with the head of school, who is much older than her. After a quarrel with him Anya throws the newly born child in the hospital and goes to the village where settles in an abandoned house. Her peer Sanya, who secretly and hopelessly in love with Anya, leaves the children's home together with her. At first, he seems to be a child, unable to take a serious and responsible decisions, but gradually Anya sees that he grows up and falls in love with him.
This is the second installment of a three-part series of autobiographical films about the director's life. The first, which won various awards for its maker, was entitled Zamri Oumi Voskresni and was later retitled Zari, Umri, Vokresni ("Freeze-Die-Come to Life"). At the end of that film, set at the conclusion of World War II, the young Valerka was striving hard to overcome the inertia of just getting by, along with his sometime friend Galiya. In this one, he is adjusting to Galiya's death and is back in school and is living with his mother, a prostitute. After a girl at the school is found to have been gang-raped, the headmaster chooses Valerka to be one of the scapegoats, though he had nothing to do with the deed. The punishment seems mild enough, he was simply expelled from school. However, after quarrelling with his mother about the incident, he takes to the road, and discovers a society so bleak, degraded and hopeless that it is a wonder he remained alive.
