The main characters of the film are members of the group "Nastya" Nastya Poleva and Yegor Belkin. The half-hour half-documentary tape included footage taken by Balabanov in 1985-1990. In addition to the main characters, the documentary footage captured many prominent figures of Sverdlovsk rock club, in particular Vyacheslav Butusov, Leonid Porokhnyu, and local actors.
The story unfolding during one day, tells about the male vileness and ever-hard female share ... The action takes place against the background of the first hits of the young group "Nautilus Pompilius" ...
Michael is a general manager of a large company, living in a small apartment in a rundown area of the city of the future. He can't get rid of the hatred for his boss Rudolf. The need to let off steam leads Michael to the office of the company 'New Life', implanting in their clients' memories fantasies that they can realize without the risk of experiencing the events in reality.
The young man doesn't remember how he spent last night, but finds at home an evidence that he murdered a girl. Attempt to understand what happened leads him to new crimes.
Fifteen-year-old Sashka, a combat fencer, is about to join the Olympic team. Unexpectedly, the girl realizes that besides sports there is another life, alluring and exciting, where the laurels of a champion are no longer so significant. But outside the path, her saber and well-aimed blow are powerless.
The loser Yaroslav returns to his homeland from a long journey, where he tried to know himself and the universe. The return falls on the birthday of his son, for whom he has long ceased to be an authority. Based on new values, Yaroslav is trying to confront obstacles and improve relations with the child. But the acquired concepts do not work well in the megalopolis, and my son needs something more than words...
A failed suicide attempt became the beginning of a long and happy life.
A person is constantly changing in every moment of their life and yet remains the same. No matter how lucky, young or even in love we are, we bear our loneliness inside at all times. There is no escaping from it. Its lingering around during drunken parties in the dorms... Watching us... even when we are not in our own bed. The main character of this movie meets a girl who completely turns his world upside down as he is just beginning to learn how to find his inner peace. Her deliberate loneliness is a reassured protection from all the pain, lost hopes and disappointments. Not quite a love story, but more than just a story of someone's life! - Do you feel lonesome with me? - Of course.
This is a story about a young engineer. Every year he examines an old rundown bridge and under orders from his superiors announces it fit for exploitation. Every night a girl comes to his apartment. Their relationship is wrought with misunderstandings and hurt feelings. What will collapse first - the bridge or the relationship?
Gelya is a full girl 22 years old, lives in a cramped apartment on the outskirts of the city with his despotic mother an invalid, and his entire life is dedicated to her. One day, fate sends her a chance to change all that and puts it in front of a choice...
Grisha was in an unfamiliar hotel. As ill luck would have it, they cut out the light. Meeting with neighbors will greatly change his life.
Boris, in a state of deep depression, gets drunk in a bar and meets his childhood friend Kostya. He advises him to enroll in the Society of Optimists Anonymous.
Young and talented theater actor has been acting very weird lately. Nobody understands what is going on with him and everyone is ready to turn away from him, but...
On the edge of the forest and steppe, far from people, an elderly Buryat woman Demid lives with her dog. The war took her family away from her, but she doesn't seem to remember it. Years pass, and Demid, as before, washes the laundry of his children and sends the dog to the forest married to the forester. The dog runs away to look for the owner, but always comes back with nothing. One day, Demid's oblivion is broken.
12 y.o. Jewish girl Dinka studies at Machon (Jewish orthodox orphanage). Lone middle-aged Hana, the Machon headmistress, exerts best efforts to educate girls in the spirit of Jewish tradition and to protect them from the temptations of the outside world. Once Dinka has watched a boring b-movie on TV and felt in love with Hollywood actor David Travis, a muscular handsome moustachette. She decides to marry him by the Talmudic rules and writes letters to Hollywood.
The film talks about unique units of the Great Patriotic War. Reindeer battalions were organized in the north of the USSR. From all the boundless territories of tundra nomads went to the front with their reindeer to defend the Arctic borders of the Motherland from the German invaders.
War destroys hopes, dreams, mercilessly burns generations.
Once Anna gets an anonymous bouquet which turns her life around. But instead of love, she finds herself on a railway track.
Giuseppe is an old fisherman. He spends every single day of his lonely life at sea. Nothing ever changes or will ever change. His granddaughter Sofia comes to visit just for a few days. And after their short life together he returns back to the only thing he knows.
A child, just a little before adulthood, without experience, without values, without looking around, has only one desire: to become a little older.
