Olga Beshulya

For many years, separated by a river, two large families lived side by side in a remote Ural village: the Skolchins and the Ermakovs. After the revolution, they found themselves in two irreconcilable camps. But their children fell in love with each other, and the fates of the descendants of these two families became entwined in a tight tangle.

Each of the short stories is based on either one or several stories by a wonderful Russian writer. The heroes are ordinary people “of the people”, contemporaries of Shukshin, all of whose life’s ups and downs are inextricably linked with their country - the Soviet Union of the 60s-70s. The main thing that unites both the works themselves and the films made is a whole gallery of the brightest images and characters, a story about such different destinies and differently meaningful lives, a story in the center of which is invariably Man, with his love, quests, weaknesses and victories.

During a nationwide moral panic caused by a recent spike in teenage suicides two federal investigators are sent to a small Russian town to review a cold case involving a suspicious death of a schoolgirl. Initially seeing their task as a mere PR stunt both gradually start to loose their focus as they venture deeper into the paranoid world of conspiracy theories surrounding the case.

The dramatic story of Nadya, a young woman who, after a misstep in her youth (killing her unfaithful fiancé), tries to right her wrongs and return to a normal life. After serving her sentence, Nadya begins searching for the daughter she gave birth to in prison, and her friend Andrei helps her. Nadya's subconscious and the immense power of maternal love create a unique world in her imagination, through which she now lives.

An inquiry into the nature of identity, the inevitability of death, and the human condition in the twenty-first century.

Kira Georgievna is a famous sculptor. She has a loving husband, friends, and fans. She seems quite happy. But one day the past breaks into Kira's well-adjusted life: Vadim, her first husband, appears. In '37, he was repressed and spent 20 years in camps.

For many years, separated by a river, two large families lived side by side in a remote Ural village: the Skolchins and the Ermakovs. After the revolution, they found themselves in two irreconcilable camps. But their children fell in love with each other, and the fates of the descendants of these two families became entwined in a tight tangle.

Each of the short stories is based on either one or several stories by a wonderful Russian writer. The heroes are ordinary people “of the people”, contemporaries of Shukshin, all of whose life’s ups and downs are inextricably linked with their country - the Soviet Union of the 60s-70s. The main thing that unites both the works themselves and the films made is a whole gallery of the brightest images and characters, a story about such different destinies and differently meaningful lives, a story in the center of which is invariably Man, with his love, quests, weaknesses and victories.