The Story of the Chevalier des Grieux and Manon Lescaut

Eleven comedic vignettes featuring conversations – some important, some less so – held in restaurants over coffee and cigarettes (how quickly time flies – cigarettes are banned in Russia’s restaurants now). The conversations are candid, and even veer into the territory of murder. In the final credits, the director apologizes to Jim Jarmusch, whose work (in the anthology Coffee and Cigarettes, which Jarmusch shot in pieces over many years) Oldenburg-Svintsov is clearly indebted to. Sex, Coffee, Cigarettes’s kinship with Jarmusch’s film extends to the fact that superstars play tiny roles in almost all of the vignettes.

'The Institute of Conscious Dreams' is a mysterious place. True miracles happen; it is here, during psychedelic sessions, that a door opens into a different reality, into the depths of a person's consciousness and his genetic memory.

A critical article about the unjustified deforestation was published in the regional newspaper during the absence of the editor-in-chief. The author of the article was fired. The editor’s long-time friend, the deputy editor, also found himself in a difficult position.

The play is about the Game, about creativity, which this time turned into the form of a brilliant speck. Skillfully, talentedly and artistically, the victim of the same players as himself, Ikharev does not suffer a catastrophe, because his "Adelaide Ivanovna" remains with him. Tool and mascot of his game. His secret manuscript ...

Based on the plays and sonnets of Shakespeare.

Set in 1941 during World War II the film involves the lives of Volodya, Vanya, Galya and Nyusha and how this conflict has affected these children, portraying their struggles, resilience, and the enduring memories that shape their lives.