restaurant visitor
Antonina Miliukova is a beautiful and bright young woman, born in the aristocracy of 19th century Russia. She could have anything she'd want, and yet her only obsession is to marry Pyotr Tchaikovsky, with whom she falls in love from the very moment she hears his music. The composer finally accepts this union, but after blaming her for his misfortunes and breakdowns, his attempts to get rid of his wife are brutal. Consumed by her feelings for him, Antonina decides to endure and do whatever it takes to stay with him. Humiliated, disgraced and discarded, she is slowly driven to madness.
joker
A day in the life of a comic book artist and his family in post-Soviet Russia. While suffering from the flu, Petrov is carried by his friend Igor on a long walk, drifting in and out of fantasy and reality.
Production Design
Sergei and Kira were considered the most beautiful bohemian couple among cinema lovers of Saint Petersburg in the early 90’s. Their fantastic love affair ended with Kira leaving town, fleeing for new life, new relationship. Sergei has died shortly after. Only after a few years does Kira realize that she never stopped loving Sergei. And that she’s doomed to stay in a neverending dialogue with a dead lover.
Vasilisk
제어장치 없는 화려한 뮤지션의 삶을 살던 사샤와 페탸… 내일이 없는 것처럼 살던 두 청년에게 충격적인 사건이 발생한다. 결국 방향감각을 상실하고 매일 밤 환각제와 섹스로 공허하게 청춘을 채워나가던 두 사람. 염산을 들이키고 금지된 관계에 집착하는 등 이들의 인생은 점점 더 극단으로 치달아가는데…
1981년 레닌그라드, 자신만의 음악을 하고 싶은 자유로운 뮤지션 빅토르 최와 금기의 록음악을 열망하는 열정적인 록스타 마이크 그리고 그의 매력적인 뮤즈 나타샤. 음악이 있어 빛나고, 사랑이 있어 아름답고, 젊음이 있어 찬란한 그들의 끝나지 않을 여름이 시작된다.
Five short love stories, which become a statement of the directors about love. A shoemaker, a reporter, a pavement hooker-in, a psychiatric patient and a young man released from prison are the main characters of the film, heroes in a time of no heroes. All of them have the important qualities of being openhearted and not afraid of loving.
