Dmitriy Kochkin

Dovlatov charts six days in the life of a brilliant, ironic writer who saw far beyond the rigid limits of 70s Soviet Russia. Sergei Dovlatov fought to preserve his own talent and decency with poet and writer Joseph Brodsky, while watching his artist friends got crushed by the iron-willed state machinery.

A funny story about the adventures of a two hairy friends familiar from the "Six Degrees of Celebration" series.

It is winter on the island of Cyprus. A Russian businessman, the owner of a hotel in Cyprus, is trying to find a way to attract tourists to the island.

In revolutionary Russia, a brilliant actor takes on the greatest role of his life: that of another man. Influenced by the ideas of symbolism and the Silver Age, he decides to slip into the life of his doppelganger – a revolutionary leader in the new Soviet Russia. First intrigued, then obsessed, he flings himself into the role and lives it to the hilt... even when the play of the life he writes heads towards a tragic finale.

Young survivor of the siege Yura Tyukalov came to sports after the war, when it seemed he had no strength to live, let alone to conduct grueling training in academic rowing. But after meeting coaches Mikhail and Vera Savrimovich, Yura gets a second wind and starts life anew. Fates, burned by the war, unite in a team where everyone supports and inspires each other. Victories are not easy, but Yura has love, talent and a native team that is unstoppable: their goal is the Olympics in Helsinki.

A band of determined Russian soldiers fight to hold a strategic building in their devastated city against a ruthless German army, and in the process become deeply connected to a Russian woman who has been living there.