Com a cidade sofrendo de uma epidemia de gripe, Petrov e sua família lutam por mais um dia em um país onde o passado nunca é passado e o presente é um sonho impetuoso de violência e ternura movido a álcool. Gripado e febril, Petrov é arrastado por seu amigo Igor em uma longa caminhada, em que realidade e fantasia se misturam, nessa narrativa delirante e lacônica pela Rússia pós-soviética. Baseado no romance Petrovs in and Around the Flu, de Alexey Salnikov.
Na histórica Olimpíada de Munique, o time de basquete da União Soviética, sob o comando do novo técnico Vladimir Garanzhin, tenta bater a poderosa seleção americana. Invictos até a final, a tensão permanece até os últimos três segundos da partida.
Terror strikes the underground train system in Moscow in the form of a flood from a collapsed tunnel. The film follows a diverse group of Moscow citizens who find themselves trapped in the city’s underground rail network, their train derailed and virtually crushed after an aging tunnel collapses. Amongst this band of survivors is softly spoken surgeon Andrey (Sergei Puskepalis), whose wife is having an affair with the conceited businessman Vlad (Anatoly Beliy). Fate brings these two men together on the same doomed train, but there is little time to resolve their differences, as the tunnel begins to quickly fill with water, forcing them to work together with the others and find a way back to the surface.
The main character is an Opel Astra car. The car has become an integral part of every person's life. In the short stories the characters work and rest together with the Opel Astra, meet, get to know each other and fall in love, quarrel and make peace.
Italian gambler who is well-skilled in the card trade owes people in authority, and leaves his country to win the money. Arriving in a small Russian town, he tries to show off his tricks to the local card swindlers but is caught and ends up agreeing to a friendship and a cooperation. It is hard not to find oneself liking the gallant Italian.
The film is set during 1962 in Sevastopol, Crimea, then a secret Navy Base in the Soviet Union. General Serov hires Viktor, a cadet from the Kremlin Guard to work as his private chauffeur. In a jet-black "ZIM" limo, Viktor is chauffeuring the General's disabled daughter Vera. Viktor is oblivious to the hidden agenda of the KGB agent Saveliev, who manipulates everyone behind the scenes in the old rivalry between the Army and KGB.
