Aleksandr Rogozhkin
1949 (75 лет)The Cuckoo
Aleksandr Rogozhkin
Anni-Kristiina Juuso, Ville Haapasalo
September of 1944, a few days before Finland went out of the Second World War. A chained to a rock Finnish sniper-kamikadze Veikko managed to set himself free. Ivan, a captain of the Soviet Army, arrested by the Front Secret Police 'Smersh', has a narrow escape. They are soldiers of the two enemy armies. A Lapp woman Anni gives a shelter to both of them at her farm. For Anni they are not enemies, but just men.
The Cuckoo
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
Peculiarities of the National Fishing
Aleksandr Rogozhkin
Aleksei Buldakov, Viktor Bychkov
General Ivolgin, forester Kuzmich, and good-natured Lyova lose their way on a fishing trip and wind up in a neighboring country, where they decide to have a good time anyway but end up leaving their vodka and fishing equipment behind.
Peculiarities of the National Fishing
Блокпост
Aleksandr Rogozhkin
Roman Romantsov, Kirill Ulyanov
A group Russian soldiers is send to an outpost to guard the area. They pass the day patroulling the area, while being shot at from the forest. They never know if the civillions are hostile or friendly to them.
Checkpoint
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
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
Peregon
Aleksandr Rogozhkin
Aleksey Serebryakov, Daniil Strakhov
A group of American pilots from Alaska ferry Airacobra fighter planes across the ocean on Lend-lease. The orderly course of life is disrupted when it becomes clear that the American pilots are attractive and charming young women. The feelings of the Russian young men collide into barriers of culture and language resulting in a host of awkward, funny, and sometimes tragic situations.It is the story of Russians, Americans, and natives of the Far North. It is the story of man and woman in war. Love and death are squeezed between the hills as human fates are destroyed and born.
Transit
Мисс миллионерша
Aleksandr Rogozhkin
Nikolai Karachentsov, Yuriy Dubrovin
At the beginning of "perestroyka", city authorities are getting ready for another event in keeping with the spirit of stagnant times. A director with a rather "unyielding" character is assigned to make a film about the birth of the one millionth inhabitant. However, when he finds the heroine of his story, there is no much "positive" to show as this family hardly suits for advertising happy life...
Miss Millionersha
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
Исключения без правил
Valeri Naumov, Sergei Baranov
Viktor Bychkov, Aleksandr Galibin
Альманах короткометражных художественных фильмов по рассказам Михаила Мишина из сборника рассказов «Пауза в мажоре». Исключение первое: «Экскурсант». Работник фабрики игрушек, Боря Топорков, случайно попадает в группу интуристов, посетивших его фабрику, и по-новому осмысливает то, что стало для него привычным. Исключение второе: «Скрепки». О сотруднике учреждения Иване Семеновиче Ящерове — приспособленце и подхалиме. Исключение третье: «Голос». О том, как инженер Валюшин заговорил языком неуместных штампов и сентенций, многократно встречающихся в статьях и передачах бесталанных журналистов… Исключение четвертое: «Золотая пуговица». Герой новеллы, Спиркин, откровенно бездельничает на работе, но в поисках потерянной «фирменной» пуговицы проявляет чудеса энергии и предприимчивости.
Exceptions Without Rules
Болдинская осень
Aleksandr Rogozhkin
Andrey Krasko, Ivan Krasko
Sisin, a forty-year-old writer, gets on the train and goes out of town. In the car, he is surrounded by strange passengers, some of whom resemble famous Russian writers: Chekhov, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Kuprin... Surreal visions, hidden desires, fears, and anxieties arise in Sisin's imagination. Love, career, and life itself seem stupid and meaningless to him.
Boldino autumn
