Mikhail Vasserbaum

Secrecy of the Investigation

Aleksandr Romanovich Stetsenko

In the center of the plot is a senior investigator named Masha Shvetsova and her male colleagues. The plot is the most vital, but, like in “Streets of Broken Lanterns,” it is seasoned with a fair amount of humor - otherwise, how can the audience (and the heroes) endure countless morgues, identifications and other “cute” charms of the investigative routine?

Suspended Cop

Amerikanets

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Alibi

Petr is not only a successful writer but also is the owner of the agen- cy called Alibi — that creates alibis for the clients who need to hide their lies and failures. His second business is hidden, so he himself has a double life. But his attitude to lies changes when his own wife appears at the agency asking for an alibi. From this moment on, he will solve not only his client’s problems, but his own. Unfortu- nately, he’ll be able to help everyone but himself.

The Waiting Room

Semyon - pomoshchnik Konovalovoy

A 'runaway' homeless man, once a renowned athlete, finds himself marooned in the small, snow-covered town of Zarechensk. Victor lands a job at an orphanage, where he soon meets a young teacher who becomes both a compassionate friend and the love of his life. However, fate doesn't play out simply as good or bad; it unfolds in a way that makes the hero realize one cannot run away from oneself. Consequently, it is in Zarechensk that a train carrying a film crew from the capital, on their way back to Moscow, is compelled to delay their journey for a few days. Remarkably, Zarechensk becomes the place where a director finally discovers the perfect actress for his leading role and encounters a man who has fled from her love. Meanwhile, a producer makes the ultimate decision to select this town as the filming location for her upcoming movie.

Tycoon

Mark

During the Gorbachev years, Platon Makovski and his four buddies are university students who jump on the private capitalism movement. Fast-forward 20 years, Platon finds himself the richest man in Russia, having sacrificed his friends to get to the top. But with this cynical rise, comes a brutal fall.

Russian Horror Stories

priyatel sosedey

The heroes of the series are employees of a very modest St. Petersburg newspaper "Russian Horror Stories", who write about various anomalies and miracles.

Братва

Gorinych

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Chekist

Isaak Kats

Srubov is a part of CHEKA, the secret police Lenin established after the Bolshevik Revolution. They arrest, interview for a minute, try in ten seconds, and execute intellectuals, aristocrats, Jews, clergy, and their families. In the building basement, five people at a time are shot as they stand naked facing wooden doors. No one to remember their last words; no martyrs, just anonymous bodies. Daily, the kangaroo court, the executions, the loading of bodies onto wagons. Srubov is cold, distant, sexually dysfunctional, and a deep thinker, hated by former friends and his family. As he tries to reason the nature of revolution and the purpose of CHEKA, he slowly goes mad.

Happy Ending

доктор Михельсон

The private part of a young man leaves the owner and starts his own adventure...

To Whom Will God Send

Starting 1970s. Marina Rodionova gives birth to a child from a donor. Grown up son Andrei she tells the legend of the deceased father. It takes many years. Son of a student accidentally discovers that his father is a professor Hlyuzdin who teaches at his institute. Andrew's friend can not get from Ladder strict professor and then Andrew decides to introduce his father and mother.

Дюжина правосудия

Иноков

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Labyrinths of the Mind

It is based on real events that modern science has not been able to explain. Each of the eight films begins with a historical reference: about Hitler's personal astrologer, about the predictions of Grigory Rasputin and Nostradamus. Actors recreate the events that struck the whole world, and researchers and people with supernatural abilities offer their own interpretation of these events.

Peculiarities of the National Politics

помощник генерала

General Ivolgin, forester Kuzmich, and good-natured Lyova now are going into politics.

One at Home

mafioso gambler

Famous actors and TV presenters Nikolai Fomenko and Ivan Urgant want to celebrate the holiday quietly and calmly, but, having lost their way, they end up in an enchanted house that does not let them out until the heroes believe in the New Year, a real fairy tale and a miracle, immersing themselves in the atmosphere of popular films.

Everybody Dance Now!

A musical retro drama. The story of the heroes of the film "Everyone is Dancing!" is inspired by the poetry of Leningrad lyricists of the 50s and 60s and partly by the motives of Fazil Iskander's story "Retribution". The film tells about the Ligovka district of St. Petersburg, known to every resident of St. Petersburg as a place where punks live.

A Room and a Half

A semi-fictional account of the life of Russian poet Joseph Brodsky, who was forced into American exile in 1972.

Living With an Idiot

The main character is an intellectual from Russia, who sees it as his duty to bring an idiot from an mental institution to his house. He can pick someone out, after bribing the boss of the institution, with two bottles of vodka. He chooses Vova, at first sight a silly man, and takes him home. His wife is at first not very happy with this choice. Vova says and does nothing at all. Then he becomes an aggressive man, who terrorises the house and bashes everything to pieces. After she is raped by Vova, the wife gets sexually dependant on the Idiot. Vova isn't interested anymore, when she gets pregnant and doesn't keep the baby. The idiot goes now to the intellectual for his sexual needs. The wife can't take this anymore and forces her man to take a choice: Vova out, or she will go.

American Bet

A story about a love between two teenagers set in the small Russian town during sixties.

Шпильки

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Mechanical Suite

Two colleagues go to fetch the body of their co-worker from a neighboring town where that man died unexpectedly. As this person has no kin, the director of the factory chooses to send Markerants and Mityagin to deal with the whole business. And here the adventures begin...