Marina Gayzidorskaya

Sveta and Oleg are a modern young couple: they eat organic food, exercise regularly and are dreaming of moving to Europe. All their plans turn to ruin one day at the supermarket as Sveta gets bitten by a woman in leopard leggings. Soon Sveta begins to notice new exotic desires: for leopard print in particular and for unregulated life in general. Oddly enough, the infection that is threatening their modern lifestyle can also spark new passion in couple’s relationship.

Three young couples are getting ready for the weddings and each of them faces different problems.

Drama based on life and stories of one of the most popular Soviet/Russian writers - Sergei Dovlatov.

The students of 11th "A" grade will never forget their prom. And so their parents.

A young captain demobilized from the army, in search of a better life, comes to Moscow. All attempts to earn money honestly for housing and food end in failure. In addition, he owes a large sum to his comrade in the military school, who has long abandoned the army and is successfully dancing striptease in one of the capital's clubs. To pay back the debt, the hero agrees to work in a striptease and from that moment becomes a professional gigolo.

세 자매와 그녀들의 부모, 친구들 그리고 이웃 사람들의 삶은 상실된 관계를 다루는 블랙 코미디 속에서 서로 연결된다. 겉보기에 그들은 부지런히 우정, 사랑, 안정을 추구하며 살아가는 전형적인 교외의 대가족일 뿐이다. 그러나 점점 음험한 힘들이 정상성이라는 얇은 덮개를 넘어 부글부글 흘러나오고 급기야 이들의 삶을 짓누르게 된다. 이 작품이 지닌 대단한 힘 그리고 솔론즈의 진정한 성취는 바로 점차 끔찍해지는 그렇지만 여전히 친근한 인물들 곁으로 우리를 잡아끈다는 데 있다.

In Russia in the late 1960s, Elena will do anything to see that her son Yuri succeeds as a pianist: she longs for him to win a competition that will send him to Paris. To ensure his success, she denies her love for an iconoclastic painter for whom she models, prostitutes herself to a Party figure, encourages her son to break with his true love because the girl is a Jew, and, in general, behaves in paranoid ways, believing, for example, that a new lodger, Evgeny, is a KGB spy. She also has her own family secrets, which she will go to any length to keep her son from learning.

Двое приятелей Вова и Боб ограбили квартиру Нины - любовницы директора рынка. Всю вину молодчики свалили на бывшего любовника и сутенера Нины Стаса Шапкина. Шеф не стал впутывать в эту историю милицию, он поручил заняться этим делом своим людям. Бандиты пытают Стаса, требуют отдать пропавшую сумму. В конце концов, бедняге приходится занять деньги у всех своих проституток и отдать вымогателям.

Lysistrata led the women of ancient Greece in forcing men to stop the war, that was devastating the land for 21 years. At secret assembly of the women delegates from both sides of the conflict, Lysistrata declared: "We must refrain from the male altogether - till the men come to terms of peace". Her instruction to every wife or mistress was to refuse all sexual favors whatsoever, and sit prettily dressed in best transparent silks, till the men yield to peace.

The action takes place in Leningrad n the time of "perestroika" during the 1980's. Tatyana is a beautiful Russian nurse who is underpaid at her hospital job, so she becomes a prostitute catering to international tourists. She becomes well paid in dollars, and helps her ailing mother survive. Tatyana's international clients tell her about the life in other countries, so she accepts a marriage in order to escape from the grim Soviet reality. Even though she is married to a decent man abroad, she still suffers being labeled an ex-Soviet prostitute, and her new life is full of new troubles.