Woodpeckers Don't Get Headaches

About the creative path of Leningrad director Dinara Asanova.

Zhenya, a senior in high school, is transferred to a new school after changing her place of residence. The new school is full of kids from privileged families. The school has different mores, different values and she can’t resist the temptation to join the elite of the class.

Four third-grader friends live in an old Leningrad house, study in the same class and try to understand their parents and teachers.

A short film based on the story by Valentin Rasputin.

A weak but kind man is gradually drawn into drunkenness, losing his job and family only to eventually commit a crime.

A former athlete runs a camp dedicated to reforming juvenile criminals, a tough job with no quick payoffs.

AKirill Sergeyevich, a retired Army officer, becomes the new school Headmaster. Used to a strict and orderly routine, he at first finds the chaotic bustle of everyday school life hard... It is not easy to deal with both the children and the teachers, especially with the students' favorite Marina Maximovna who teaches Literature. Well then, wasn't Marina surprised to discover the "martinet" Nazarov to be a perceptive and tactful person and an experienced tutor.

He considered his family life perfect. Normal, and sometimes big wages quite satisfied a beautiful and gentle wife. The child didn't cause much trouble. All that was needed for his happiness was available. But the wife is gone. She left not to another, but left, so as not to be unhappy.

A teenage girl considered by everybody as "difficult" is sent to the village to live with her grandfather.

Vadim, a part-time dump truck driver in Leningrad, picks up an extremely young woman, along with a newborn baby. Vadim is forced to spend the rest of his day with Anna, helping her untangle herself from unpleasant, dramatic, and even tragic situations – and she and she alone is to blame for all of them. The baby, which Anna stole in order to make an impression on an estranged lover, is finally returned to its parents, but the problems that the theft caused remain.

Zhenya Rodimtseva has to switch schools after her parents' divorce. Most of her classmates are from wealthy families. To blend in with the 'golden' youth and to get her classmate Boris to like her, Zhenya starts making up stories about her secure and carefree life. Unfinished film by Dinara Asanova, one of the most bright directors of «Lenfilm» studio and Soviet cinema as a whole.

A documentary film about the work of Dinara Asanova, director at the Lenfilm film studio.

Anatomy of a divorce with child custody in the balance, told through interview form, staged as a documentary.