The Legend of the Stone Breaker

The film was shot on the story of Valentin Pikul “Go and do not sin”, which tells about the real events that took place in Russia at the beginning of the 20th century. The story of the young beauty Olga Palem from a poor large family is replete with tragic events. Olga's passionate disinterested love for student Alexander Zapolsky becomes her evil rock. Spoiled and selfish, Alexander is not able to appreciate her feelings. Exhausted by humiliation, a young woman kills her lover. The high-profile trial of Olga Pale becomes a sensation that stirred up the whole of Russia ...

Life in an apartment house changes dramatically when a new lodger arrives with his grand piano.

A film dedicated to the women who spent many years in ALZhIR (Akmolinsk Camp for the Wives of Traitors to the Motherland). Stalin's terror reduced their young lives to hard labor. Actress Kseniya Kozmina, who served time in ALZhIR, decides to meet with the former leadership of the camp.

In Tver province, in the God-forsaken village of Perelogi, there are Pamiri Tajiks who fled their homeland in the 90s, when a civil war broke out in Tajikistan. Now, together with a few indigenous villagers, they have to solve a difficult state question – what is "multiculture" in action?

In the Soviet era, everyone wanted to go to Moscow because people in Moscow "had everything"! Meanwhile, limits were imposed on out-of-towners arriving in Moscow. They were hired for jobs that Muscovites considered unworthy; they spent years in dilapidated dormitories waiting for a residence permit. While the dream of enjoying equal opportunities with Muscovites wasn't out of reach, it was a lengthy and exhausting process to get there, especially in the face of growing resentment from the locals.