Elvira Bolgova

Stepan and Doker are street racers. They love cars and speed. But there is a difference between them which brings them to face each other in a deadly race.

A brother and sister from a prosperous family lose their parents in a car accident and end up in an orphanage. Now they have to fight for a decent existence and defend their place in a new world for them.

Mara Alexandrova is a woman with a complex character and an equally difficult fate. She is desperately fighting for every day that comes. One by one, men change in her life. Having received some support from her: moral, financial, they immediately leave. It hardens her.

Set in contemporary Moscow, this comedy drama from 72-year-old director Pyotr Todorovsky is a remake of Abram Room's controversial silent film Bed and Sofa (1927). Actor Sergei leaves his wife and drops in on friend Kostya, married to Rita. Rita and Sergei pair off after Kostya goes away on a business trip, and when Kostya returns, they become a threesome. Shown at the 1998 Berlin Film Festival.

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.

The life of the main character Maria, a talented scientist-pharmacist, abruptly changes the chain of mysterious events. First, the husband goes missing, and then the murders begin in the city. Three weeks later, the heroine finds her husband, but, alas, it is not so pleased with her — she recognizes a loved one in the sketch of a homicidal maniac. Despite the support of friends, Mary is on the verge of despair…

Yura Platonov - famous poet and just lucky. He has everything: he owns the largest Moscow publishing house, has long and happily married, his father is a billionaire and a criminal authority, his beautiful mistress is completely satisfied with their relationship. It is precisely this problem-free that at some point begins to alarm Jura, because everything is so good in life! Realizing that his whole life is artificially modeled, Yura wonders: maybe the fictional life, self-deception, unwillingness to know the truth about those around you, sometimes better than understanding what is really happening?

Icon restorer Begun lost everything — his wife, his son, and his beloved profession. And after getting involved in smuggling a batch of stolen icons abroad, he ended up owing a large sum of money to the bigwigs of the criminal underworld. He was given a condition: to find and bring to Moscow the miraculous icon “Siberian Savior,” which had been left in one of the villages lost in the remote Siberian taiga a hundred years ago.