Irina Metlitskaya

Almanac of five short stories commissioned by ROSKOMKINO to celebrate the 100th anniversary of cinema.

On the same day, Andrei's wife Nina asks for a divorce, his colleague Natasha tells him she's attracted to him, he's assigned a new project under the direction of Philip (a well-dressed, authoritative, and even arrogant stranger who keeps touching him), and he fights a gang of homophobes to protect a young gay man, Oleg. The next day, Philip takes Andrei away from the office on an odyssey into a space that is charged with spirituality and homoeroticism. Philip is no businessman, and the disclosure of who he really is forces Andrei into a series of choices that involve Natasha, Nina, belief, and love.

Choreographic school, young talents are collected here. Behind eight years of study - three months remain before the final performance. And finally, “Giselle” is appointed, roles are distributed, girls are worried - they are afraid of the wording “professionally unsuitable”, but Yulya’s thoughts are different. She fell in love for the first time. And she has to choose between her beloved and the stage.

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In Venice, the famous film actress Anna Zakharova meets the artist Mario. The meeting makes a lasting impression on the young man - he is in love. On her return to Russia, Anna is met with failure: she is removed from the role, breaks up with her lover-colleague. Desperate, the actress gives up everything and goes to Mario dying of passion, but during the sea voyage falls in love with the captain of the ship. Learning about it, Mario fails to control the car, gets into an accident and goes blind. All that is left for Anna, who feels guilty, is to go with him to the wedding...

The journalist becomes a victim of rape. To take revenge on the rapists, she makes a deal with the criminals. But things are beginning to unfold unpredictably...

"Makarov" both a popular Russian name, and also slang for the word "gun," serves as a metaphor for the brutal reality of life in a post-totalitarian society. The story's protagonist, Makarov, embodies this struggle as he becomes more mechanical and less spiritual upon acquiring a gun.

Journalist Tamara Malysheva is deeply unhappy in her personal life with her alcoholic husband, Andrey. The editorial office sends Tamara to a small Ukrainian village to investigate the reasons why a soldier who had just come out of the army stabbed his mother-in-law with an axe and the 11 years of strict prison sentence he received for it. There she meets Yuriy, a man who has been "waiting for her all her life" and with whom she falls in love without looking back. Further events develop.

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Roman Viktyuk is either hated or adored. But the eccentricity, the dissimilarity to everything of his work is recognized by everyone. The film by Alexei Uchitel - illustration for the life of the scandalous maestro. Unique shots from rehearsals, a trip to Lviv and New York, young actors, now stars - once opened by Viktyuk, scenes from the director's most striking and challenging performances. And Roman Viktyuk himself, ironic, funny, sincere .

A rich, smart, charming philanthropist from Saint-Petersburg Andrei Rokshin is found dead at home. The culprit is a woman wearing a black veil. Investigator Sinev takes the case.

Based on Shakespeare's play "The Merchant of Venice".

Fate brings the heroine together with different men, but her novels are unhappy: one lover returns to his homeland in Egypt, the other dies in a car accident. There is still hope for a third. Maybe we'll get lucky with him?..

A movie about a little man - a little funny and a little sad - a Latino businessman, owner of a loss-making shop. And about a big moral problem. A child has fallen down a deep well. He's alive, but it's almost impossible to get him out. What is more dignified: to honestly say that the child is alive but already dead or to repeat for everyone the mantra "he will certainly be rescued now"? And how to live on, if in the heat of an argument, bet on "will not be saved".

The young soldier Vasily Lemekhov has returned from the hospital and met a young woman Natasha in Chisinau.

Six years old Gosha and his babysitter are trying to reunite Gosha's family by bringing his father back home.

The mountain resort of one the European countries is blocked by the group of terrorists. They threaten to cause the descent of avalanches by directional explosion.

A young Russian gymnast is forced to return to the life of an ordinary teenage girl after an injury prevents her from competing.

Turkestan, 1919. The prominent Bolshevik Valerian Kuybyshev is appointed commander of the Turkestan Front. The film tells the story of the establishment of Soviet power in Central Asia.

Having fled from the Crimea, Wrangel, having concentrated his army on the Bulgarian coast, is preparing a landing force and counts only on the support of the counter-revolutionary underground hiding in Rostov. Captain Filatov falls into the hands of the Red Army soldiers, who is "arranged" to escape with the help of Chekist Bakharev. Filatov, together with his "savior", finds himself at the center of a secret organization preparing a senseless rebellion.

A literary teacher Antonina Sergeevna goes to work at an elite physical and mathematical lyceum from a regular school. She is surprised to see how respectful the students are here - as to full-fledged creative personalities. Soon she begins an affair with a young school principal - a talented physicist, candidate of science. But the euphoria of the first months of communication with students is replaced by disappointment - her pets turn out to be cold, rational people, almost indifferent to the beautiful ...