A determined student from Chicago is forced to fulfill the last wish of his ailing grandfather. He has to travel to Odessa, Ukraine, and bring back his grandfather's cat.
가난한 음악가인 안드레이는 피아노 조율을 통해 부유한 노부인 안나, 루바와 가까워진다. 이후 안드레이는 애인 리나와 손잡고 그들이 가진 재산을 뺏으려 한다. 돈과 욕망에 관한 드라마로, 개봉 후 주연배우인 알라 드미도바(안나 역)와 레나타 리트비노바(리나 역)의 연기가 높은 평가를 받았다
Vartholomey Korobeinikov
The film TWELVE CHAIRS linked in a spectacular way the dramaturgy of a treasure hunt and chase with a dense imagery of people and places. It tells both of yesterday and today, the reality of the people in the CIS countries and the universal humanity of our own actions. Large social utopia thus mixes with the individual hope of personal happiness, be it through money or in love.
Director of hotel
Tiny Soviet village by the sea, in the years before the Second World War... A very young girl, Vera, falls madly in love with an older military officer who is visiting from out of town. She leaves her home and family to live with him in various military posts where he serves with the army. Through the difficulties of army life, and years of war, her love for this older man survives, and she gives herself completely without reservation. This film is about friendship, loss, survival, loyalty, and the wonderful gift of unconditional love, which is only given to a few.
A wealthy businessman tries to change his not so good sounding last name by marrying the heir of aristocratic family.
In this affectionate, leisurely paced comedy, an Odessa policeman is out walking his beat when he discovers an adorable infant abandoned in a cabbage patch. He does his duty and takes the baby to an orphanage, but later he and his wife, who have an unusually affectionate and cozy relationship, decide to try and adopt the little one. What they must go through to accomplish that goal is anything but straightforward.
남편을 잃은 슬픔에 잠긴 나타샤는 홀로 도시를 떠돌며 종종 충동적인 행위를 한다. 한편 문학 교사인 니콜라이는 자신의 일은 물론 학생들, 나아가 사회에도 별 관심이 없다. 기면증까지 갖고 있는 그는 주위 사람들과는 다른 리듬으로 살아간다. 영화는 두 사람의 메마른 표정과 도시의 삭막한 풍경, 그리고 기묘한 사건을 제시하며 공산주의 체제 붕괴 이후 러시아 사회의 단면을 강렬한 이미지로 포착한다. 1990년 베를린영화제 은곰상 수상
Olga Voznesenskaya is a silent screen star whose pictures are so popular that underground revolutionaries risk capture to see them. She's in southern Russia filming a tear-jerker as the Bolsheviks get closer to Moscow. Although married, she spends time every day with Victor Pototsky, the film's cameraman. Gradually, it comes to light that Victor uses his job as a cover for filming White atrocities and Red heroism: he's a Bolshevik. He asks her for help, and she discovers meaning in her otherwise flighty and self-centred life. Love blooms. Will the Red forces arrive in time to save them from a suspicious White military leader? Will she find courage?
