Svetlana Zhilenko

In 16th-century Russia in the grip of chaos, Ivan the Terrible strongly believes he is vested with a holy mission. Believing he can understand and interpret the signs, he sees the Last Judgment approaching. He establishes absolute power, cruelly destroying anyone who gets in his way. During this reign of terror, Philip, the superior of the monastery on the Solovetsky Islands, a great scholar and Ivan's close friend, dares to oppose the sovereign's mystical tyranny. What follows is a clash between two completely opposite visions of the world, smashing morality and justice, God and men. A grand-scale film with excellent leading roles by Mamonov and Yankovsky. An allegory of Stalinist Russia

The film is based on the early songs of Viktor Tsoi. This is a story about a young slacker, easy and fun going through life. He strumming a guitar and composing songs. Drinks with idle friends. The usual, almost domestic, history of betrayal changes everything radically. So the poet is born.

Mila has taken the puppy of her friend, who has developed an allergy. Her friend talked about it to her teacher, who shared the story with her husband, who discussed it with his trainer, etc. But each time as the story gets told, the meaning changes and soon in the social networks appears a post that Mila is prostituting herself. This story is about the speedy transformation of harmless news into a gossip which literally destroys the life of the heroine.