Nikolai (played by Sergei Dontsov) has been fired from his job as a music teacher and has to live in the gym until he finds a place to stay. Finally, he gets a communal room in the apartment of Gorokhov (Victor Mikhalkov). The room's previous inhabitant, an old lady, has died a year ago, and yet her cat, Maxi, is still in the locked room, healthy and fat. Soon, Nikolai and his neighbours discover the mystery: there is a window to Paris in the room. That's when the comedy begins - will the Russians be able to cope with the temptation to profit from the discovery?
A middle-aged, alcoholic lawyer inherits a mysterious, unsigned will from his father.
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
