Aleksey Poluyan
1965 - 2010Brother
Alexey Balabanov
Sergei Bodrov Jr., Svetlana Pismichenko
Danila goes to his successful brother, Victor, in Petersburg to start a new life. Unknown to Danila, Victor is a contract killer, but is in hiding after asking for too much money to assassinate a Chechen mob boss. To avoid exposure, Victor convinces Danila to kill the boss instead.
Brother
The Garden Was Full of Moon
Vitali Melnikov
Nikolai Volkov Ml., Zinaida Sharko
Vera Andreyevna and Grigory Petrovich are an elderly couple who have had a long and happy life together. One day in the market Vera Andreyevna runs into an untidy and half-drunk old man whom she recognizes with difficulty. It is Alyosha, who was in the same orphanage with her and who had been her first love. Reminiscences overwhelm them and stir their hearts. Alexei Ivanovich, who had lived a far from easy life, undergoes an amazing change. He begins to look younger and more orderly. Vera Andreyevna feels she is a woman again, a woman who has to make her choice.
The Garden Was Full of Moon
Peculiarities of the National Hunt
Aleksandr Rogozhkin
Aleksei Buldakov, Ville Haapasalo
A Finn preparing a work on the Russian hunting traditions and customs, comes to Russia to collect materials and is invited to take part in a hunting party. His flamboyant companions include an Army general, with more than a passing resemblance to Aleksander Lebed, a police detective, local forest ranger (a devotee of Zen Buddhism) and some big-city types from St. Petersburg. Inevitably, their good intentions soon give way to endless drinking, visits to local farm girls and much else besides.
Peculiarities of the National Hunt
Morphine
Alexey Balabanov
Leonid Bichevin, Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė
The year is 1917. We are in the Russian countryside. It is the middle of freezing winter. A pale young, newly educated doctor arrives. Having to deal with one medical challenge after another he soon becomes the center of everyone's attention. To soothe the impressions of human suffering he turns to morphine.
Morphine
Cargo 200
Alexey Balabanov
Agniya Kuznetsova, Aleksey Poluyan
While returning to Leningrad from a visit to his brother, Professor Artyom's car breaks down and he finds assistance at an isolated farmhouse occupied by Alexey, his wife, a Vietnamese laborer, and a stranger who wanders around the farm. When his car is repaired, Artyom leaves, drunk on moonshine, and students Valera and Angelika arrive. After Valera gets drunk, the stranger abducts Angelika.
Cargo 200
Chekist
Aleksandr Rogozhkin
Igor Sergeev, Aleksey Poluyan
Srubov is a part of CHEKA, the secret police Lenin established after the Bolshevik Revolution. They arrest, interview for a minute, try in ten seconds, and execute intellectuals, aristocrats, Jews, clergy, and their families. In the building basement, five people at a time are shot as they stand naked facing wooden doors. No one to remember their last words; no martyrs, just anonymous bodies. Daily, the kangaroo court, the executions, the loading of bodies onto wagons. Srubov is cold, distant, sexually dysfunctional, and a deep thinker, hated by former friends and his family. As he tries to reason the nature of revolution and the purpose of CHEKA, he slowly goes mad.
Chekist
Комедия строгого режима
Vladimir Studennikov, Mikhail Grigoryev
Viktor Sukhorukov, Ivan Krivoruchko
The action is set in 1970 as the Soviet Union (and the entire progressive world) are preparing to celebrate Lenin's centenary. Not to be outdone, the camp commander decides to have the prisoners put on a play about Lenin's life. However, the ensuing preparations turn everything upside down and seem to offer a God-given chance to plot an escape.
Comedy of the Strict Regime
Жизнь с идиотом
Aleksandr Rogozhkin
Anzhelika Nevolina, Anatoli Romantsov
The main character is an intellectual from Russia, who sees it as his duty to bring an idiot from an mental institution to his house. He can pick someone out, after bribing the boss of the institution, with two bottles of vodka. He chooses Vova, at first sight a silly man, and takes him home. His wife is at first not very happy with this choice. Vova says and does nothing at all. Then he becomes an aggressive man, who terrorises the house and bashes everything to pieces. After she is raped by Vova, the wife gets sexually dependant on the Idiot. Vova isn't interested anymore, when she gets pregnant and doesn't keep the baby. The idiot goes now to the intellectual for his sexual needs. The wife can't take this anymore and forces her man to take a choice: Vova out, or she will go.
Living With an Idiot
Караул
Aleksandr Rogozhkin
Aleksei Buldakov, Sergey Kupriyanov
Young soldiers of the Soviet Internal Troops are brutally bullied during their time of Dedovshchina(hazing). The plot unfolds mostly on board of a prisoner transport rail car guarded by a unit of paramilitary conscripts.
The Guard
Ниро Вульф и Арчи Гудвин: Дело в шляпе
Aleksandr Tatarskiy
Donatas Banionis, Sergey Zhigunov
В роскошном особняке гениального сыщика Ниро Вульфа - презентация орхидей. Но пока бомонд любуется цветами, в кабинете детектива происходит убийство. За минуту до своей смерти очаровательная Сьюзан Браун поведала Арчи Гудвину, что недавно стала свидетельницей жуткого преступления, совершенного незнакомцем в шляпе, скрывавшей его лицо. И - о, ужас! - этого злодея она только что видела среди уважаемых цветоводов! Теперь красавица мертва, а проницательному Вульфу придется посадить встревоженных гостей под замок и спешно заняться поисками умело замаскировавшегося убийцы...
Ниро Вульф и Арчи Гудвин: Дело в шляпе
Ya
Igor Voloshin
Artur Smolyaninov, Andrey Khabarov
The film tells the story of a young Russian in the early 90s, trying to escape the army in a psychiatric clinic. He's released years later, after intensive compulsory treatment. Has a documentary film maker he gets involved in the Chechen conflict, where he meets his own apparent death. He recalls his life and realizes it mirrors that of his whole generation.
I Am
Третья планета
Aleksandr Rogozhkin
Anna Matyukhina, Boris Sokolov
Drawing heavily from Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's 1971 novella 'Piknik na obochine' ('Roadside Picnic') as well as Andrei Tarkovsky's 1979 film adaptation ('Stalker'), 'Tretya planeta' tells the story of a father seeking a cure for his ill daughter by venturing into an area known only as "The Zone" to request help from the mysterious healers that dwell within its forbidden borders.
The Third Planet
Once Upon a Time in the Provinces
Екатерина Шагалова, Ekaterina Shagalova
Yulia Peresild, Elvira Bolgova
Sex, alcohol and violence define the people of a city in defeat in this downbeat drama from writer and director Katya Shagalova. As a teenager, Nastia (Yulia Peresild) was the star of a popular television series, but now her career is in decline and her father, an officer in the Russian army, has kicked her out of the house.
Once Upon a Time in the Provinces
Chuzhie
Yuri Grymov
Scarlett McAlister, Viktor Bychkov
A group of American doctors travel to a war-ravaged hot spot in the Middle East in order to distribute vaccines. They clash with the Russian military presence, the Middle Eastern locals, and ultimately, themselves, as they learn that being American heroes is not so easy as they thought. Before they can save the world, they have to save themselves.
Strangers
