Olga Konskaya

A single woman's and her dog's personalities are affected by tough life circumstances.

The film is based on A. P. Chekhov’s play “Tatiana Repina” and short story “Difficult People”. At his wedding, the groom is horrified to see among the church crowd his former mistress who had recently committed suicide.

A mixture of re-enactment, news reel footage, archival film and rare documents, including the diaries and intimate correspondence of Nicholas & Alexandra. Recreates the atmosphere at the time of their deportation to Siberia, life in exile, and brutal execution.

The love story of journalist and actor. They are connected by a great mutual feeling, but he has a wife and a son. Realizing that she is his only true love, he still does not dare to leave his family.

Russian Lessons sees its two filmmaker-protagonists, Olga Konskaya and Andrei Nekrasov, report from different posts on the frontline of the 2008 Russian-Georgian war.