In the USSR in 1936, shadows of Stalin's repressions fall on a famous, revolutionary hero. The accusations of him being a foreign spy are nonsense, and everyone knows that. However, a slow process of his downfall has already started.
FR #2473 | Movie | Comedy, Romance | Russia, Italy | Russian, English
Director
Georgiy Daneliya
Writer
Gennady Shpalikov
Cast
Nikita Mikhalkov, Aleksei Loktev, Galina Polskikh
Plot
Young Siberian writer Volodya meets Kolya in the Moscow metro in his visit to a famous author. Volodya and Kolya's friend Sasha adventure their love interests in their own way, while Kolya sets out to help them.
FR #4635 | Movie | Comedy, Crime | Russia | English, Russian
Director
Aleksey Balabanov
Writer
Stas Mokhnachev, Aleksey Balabanov
Cast
Aleksey Panin, Dmitriy Dyuzhev, Nikita Mikhalkov
Plot
This movie is about the stern gangster customs of one of the Russian provincial cities in the mid-90s . And you could expect either a stupid game of blind man's buffets or a truly bloody showdown with the stacks of "bluffers".
A waitress from the provincial railway station falls in love with an accidental passenger. Before this passenger lies the menace of distant prison for the crime he didn't commit.