Gennady Karyuk

18 directors, 18 novels, 18 short stories about Moscow...

A single mother is confused by the changes in her teenage son, who has become distant since spending summer vacation with his father.

Country girl Nadia moves to the city and becomes a maid in Valya's apartment. Valya, who is a member of the local District Committee, does not know that Nadia fell in love with her currently absent husband, a geologist named Maksim, when he had visited Nadia's village during a recent expedition.

A man goes to see his former schoolmate working at a boiler house and persuades him to burn in the furnace the corpse of his communal flat neighbor whom he has just murdered after a quarrel. An orphaned girl gets a job in the archives of the maternity home to find out the identity of her mother who abandoned her years earlier. She finds her, befriends her and takes the first opportunity to throw her into the sea. An old intellectual tries to explain to the neighbor’s five-year-old daughter “all the abomination of her lumpen existence”. The girl feeling hurt for her mother decides to poison the old man with arsenic.

The film "Mama" is one of Gennadiy Karyuk’s first directorial works. It tells the story of two women who meet while on vacation. One lost her daughter long ago; the other bears a striking resemblance to her. Is it a mirage, a mistake, or fate? The director tells the story not through dialogue, but by prioritizing visual imagery and editing.

The movie examines the lives of the not-so-fortunate dregs of society through absurdist comedy. The unfortunates of the title are mentally challenged people, some of whom could be termed insane - or merely inane.

Blonde Lilia and brunette Violetta are fascinated by horse racing, and the young racers are more than a little attracted to them, too. However, the worlds of sporting and romance don't always coexist peacefully as the two girls learn the hard way through a series of touching, surreal, and sometimes heartbreaking encounters. One of the most beautifully photographed Russian films in recent years, this acclaimed modern classic was hailed at numerous film festivals including the Berlin Film Festival and Russia's Kinotavr Festival, where it won the Jury and Critics Prizes. Amazon

In the last days of the war after the special task group of the major Gorelov returns to his. Soon tankers learn that fascists are going to blow up secret plant where about two thousand prisoners of war work: french, british and americans. Despite the small forces (25 soldiers, 2 tanks, a gun and 2 trucks), the major decides at all costs to save from the death of unarmed people. The group decides to go Gorelova allies to the rescue…

Criminals kidnapped the son of the chairwoman of the city administration. Feelings of helplessness and fear follow. A series of checks, mocking calls, humiliating requests for help to colleagues in the "shadow business" goes on and on.

A young piano tuner befriends two rich old-ladies, and plots, with the help of his girlfriend, to betray their trust and steal from them.

Two friends from Odesa try to compose a video message to their pals, emigrants to the United States. One of them rents his apartment to a tricky girl who invents various excuses not to pay the rent. An exceptional story about people on the verge of despair who nonetheless manage to enjoy life, even if these joys are beyond good and evil.

A young student suddenly must to make a choice between love and career..

A film about the life of collective farmers - the sisters of Petrov. All four sisters work as milkmaids. Their personal life was different, but they were all in love with their work, with their profession.

In this affectionate, leisurely paced comedy, an Odesa 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.

Drama based on life and stories of one of the most popular Soviet/Russian writers - Sergei Dovlatov.

Supply clerk Chuvilikhin goes to Moscow to fulfill his coworkers' errands. In the hustle and bustle of the capital, he loses the list where the name of the sheet music to be bought for the director's wife was written down. Anatoly Stepanovich rushes around the city trying to remember the melody.

Soviet intelligence officer Kraft has a new assignment. This time, acting under the name of engineer Grubbe, he must find and transfer to the center the secret drawings of a new submarine codenamed "Walter".

After discovering a dark window which appears on the wall every midnight two boys decide to investigate the mystery of a dark room behind the window.

Alexei hadn’t seen his father since he divorced his mother. Before enrolling in the literary institute, the son decided to visit his father—and regretted the time he’d lost. At the time, his father flatly refused to understand him. Disheartened, Alexei left and didn’t enroll in the institute until his fourth year. Before starting his studies, the son came to visit his father again...

Uzbek young man Rustam, a helicopter co-pilot, is participating in the construction of a high-voltage line in the Alps. One day in West Germany, where he was sent on a long business trip, the hero meets Uzbek emigrants. The external well-being of the new friends very soon revealed the catastrophic nature of everyone’s destinies. These meetings contribute to Rustam’s spiritual and civic maturity; the hero rediscovers the necessity and significance of his homeland, where his family and friends have long been waiting for him.

Comedy with elements of the absurd about the absurdity of life, unfulfilled dreams and the mysteries of the Russian soul. The unfortunate Bit about that is after he kicked his wife and threw favorite, decided to be a dwarf and live under the gas stove.

Based on Valentin Rasputin's story of the same title. The winter of 1945. In a village on the Angara embankment the women wait the return of their husbands from the front. The young soldier Andrei Guskov, who fled from the hospital, returns as a deserter. In his remote winter hut only his wife Nastena visits him : she is the only person whom he can trust with his life - of an eternal fugitive doomed to loneliness. Only she loves him. She lives in the present, remembers the past and does not believe in the future. She will have a child, and to the entire village she is an unfaithful wife who did not wait for her husband to return...

One of the southern cities of Russia during the NEP. The famous doctor and his wife are killed, the person living opposite Schwartz is kidnapped. The bandits were looking for gold. Then there is a diversion at the factory. The Chekists find out that a man is implicated in everything, posing as a businessman Bespaly, he is Lieutenant Voronov, aka “Chaly” - the leader of the gang. With the selfless efforts of the operatives, the gang manages to neutralize.

The story about a difficult post-war time. About destiny of the young lieutenant and the young girl, whose love passes through the hardest vital and moral ordeals.

A love story between two people whose youth unfolded during the turbulent early years of the century, when Europe and Russia were practically swelling with revolution.