Andrey Merzlikin
1973 (52 года)Ночной режим
Andrei Libenson
Andrey Merzlikin, Igor Sigov
Fashion photographer Roman Belov was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of four people. Roman is absolutely sure of his innocence, but cannot remember what really happened on the fateful night. In prison, a mysterious man who calls himself Master appears in his dreams and offers to help him find the real killer. But how to investigate if you are locked in a stone bag? And what price will have to be paid for the services of a person who can penetrate dreams?
Night Mode
Декабрь
Klim Shipenko
Alexander Petrov, Aleksandr Samoylenko
In December of 1925, renowned American dancer Isadora Duncan arrives at the Soviet-Latvian border, where she makes arrangements for her lover Yesenin to flee from the USSR. All he has to do is get on the train to Riga. The poet secretly travels from Moscow to snowy Leningrad, where he gets caught up in a crazy whirlwind of events. While trying to evade surveillance by secret services, he has a series of fateful encounters. He finds both solace and despair in the city’s criminal underground. Despite the many obstacles he faces along the way, he remains determined to reunite with Isadora.
December
Fortress of War
Alexandr Kott
Andrey Merzlikin, Pavel Derevyanko
The film covers the heroic defence of the Brest Fortress, which was attacked during the first strike of German invaders on June 22 1941. The story describes the events of the first days of the defence, including the three main resistance zones, headed by the regiment commander, Pyotr Mikhailovich Gavrilov, the commissar Efim Moiseevich Fomin and the head of the 9th frontier outpost, Andrey Mitrofanovich Kizhevatov. Many years later veteran Alexander Akimov again recalls the memories of the time, when he, then a 15 year old Sasha Akimov was deeply in love with the beautiful Anya and suddenly found himself in the middle of the bloody events of war.
Fortress of War
Dead Man's Bluff
Alexey Balabanov
Dmitriy Dyuzhev, Aleksey Panin
Sergei and Simon have to deliver a suitcase full of heroin to Mikhalych or else they will be killed. There is one minor detail: the only problem-solving technique they are familiar with is a shot in the head.
Dead Man's Bluff
Bummer
Pyotr Buslov
Sergey Gorobchenko, Vladimir Vdovichenkov
A black BMW, a symbol of luxury, is racing along the night streets of Moscow in the 90s. Bad luck turns four friends into criminals and they have no way back. Only the black “bimmer” is reliable in this life without rules, taking the friends farther and farther from Moscow, into the crazy and ruthless wilderness of Russian roads… None of them wanted to kill. None of them wanted to die. But they will have to face their destiny in the end.
Bummer
Май
Marat Rafikov, Ilya Rubinshtein
Viktoriya Tolstoganova, Aleksei Kravchenko
Три дня в яркой майской Москве. Три дня, когда старший лейтенант Печалин, уже давно позабывший запах мирной жизни, вновь ощутит всю ее прелесть. Встретится со старым другом Гаевским, влюбится в случайную знакомую Викторию, отметит с ней День Победы и станцует романтический вальс на площади Большого театра…
Май
Short Stories
Mikhail Segal
Andrey Merzlikin, Igor Ugolnikov
A young writer brings a collection of short stories to a big Moscow publishing house. The manuscript stays at the office and mysteriously influences the lives of anyone who opens it and reads at least one page. There are four stories in the manuscript, and four readers whose lives are changed after reading them. The situations range from realistic to absurd to thrilling to create a rich portrait of life in contemporary Russia and showcase the thoughts, feelings and ambitions of people who live there.
Short Stories
Русская Игра
Pavel Chukhray
Giuliano Di Capua, Sergey Garmash
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 Russian Game
Плюс один
Oksana Bychkova
Madlen Dzhabrailova, Jethro Skinner
After a failed marriage, Masha retreats to the sanctuary of her humble profession as a translator of serious literature. Financial difficulties force her to accept an offer to interpret during a seminar held by an English puppeteer.
Plus One
Ночной продавец
Valeri Rozhnov
Pavel Barshak, Viktor Sukhorukov
A maniac terrorizes a town during rainy nights. And exactly on one rainy night a student has a night shift in a 24-hour shop. And exactly on this night the owner of the shop goes to play in a casino, his wife wants to be entertained, a detective is awaiting for a crime to be committed and certainly... the maniac begins hunting.
Graveyard Shift
4 Tage im Mai
Achim von Borries
Pavel Wenzel, Aleksey Guskov
Germany, Baltic Sea coast, May 1945, a few days before the end of World War II. A small Soviet patrol arrives at an isolated house where an elderly baroness gives shelter to a group of orphan girls and a boy who is determined to continue the fight.
4 Days in May
Дом на обочине
Anton Sivers
Andrey Merzlikin, Kristina Kuz'mina
Returning to the city on a wet night highway, Sasha fails to control and makes a run over a lone pedestrian. Yielding to the entreaties of his wife Tamara, he leaves the wounded man near the village hospital and returns home.
Roadside house
