Anna Matyukhina

White Nights is a 1992 Russian film directed by Leonid Kvinikhidze based on the novel of the same name by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The events of the picture are moved to the present day, the 1990s.

There are no rockers, no drug addicts, no discos on the screen. There is a burning desire for the head of the kindergarten to find true love. So burning that even after finding it, he still continues to look, which results not in a classic love triangle, but in a love trio.

Drawing heavily from Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's 1971 novella 'Piknik na obochine' ('Roadside Picnic') as well as Andrei Tarkovsky's 1979 film adaptation ('Stalker'), 'Tretya planeta' tells the story of a father seeking a cure for his ill daughter by venturing into an area known only as "The Zone" to request help from the mysterious healers that dwell within its forbidden borders.

A 1993 Russian comedy film directed by Valeri Bychenkov, based on Vadim Shefner's poetry.