Rustem Yuskaev

The Stroll

Today’s twenty-something Russians are the first generation in the country’s post-communist history to have grown up free. Their twenties are the age of freedom, of fast-changing events and intense emotions. Perhaps only at this age they can live a whole life in one day. A young girl and her two accident companions walk halfway around St.-Petersburg; they flirt and tease each other, and for ninety minutes they act out a real-time romantic drama. This stroll is full of laughter and tears against a backdrop of the hustle and bustle of the streets.

A Portrait Of A Stranger

Soykin

In a nostalgic Moscow of 1976, an unlucky actor meets a charismatic writer, a living classic of Soviet literature, who turns his life into a tragicomic farce with the artistic bohemia, foreign-currency prostitutes, the KGB staff and agents of the CIA.

The Belkin Tales: The Undertaker

During an anniversary dinner, an undertaker is offended when someone jokingly offers a toast to the health of his customers. He claims that he will hold a house-warming party with his customers instead of his neighbors, only to find out later that his invitation has been accepted.