Clara and her two sons escape from her abusive husband with little more than their car and plan to start over in New York. After the car towed away, the family meets Alice, who gets them into an emergency shelter. While stealing food at a Russian restaurant called ‘Winter Palace’, Clara meets Marc, who has been given the chance to help the old eatery regain its former glory. The ‘Winter Palace’ soon becomes a place of unexpected encounters between people who are all undergoing some sort of crisis and whom fate has now brought together.
They saw each other once. On the wedding. Their eyes met. This is it. This, what they never knew, this, what they can't understand, realize, happened. Now they can't live, breath without each other. As if powerful river stream, strong cosmic magnet with irresistible power tempts, attracts, pulls them to each other. They don't belong to themselves, family and friends no more. She lived with her husband. He was older, she is still young and pretty. They have little daughter and angry dog. Did they have love?
And somewhere he lived with a burnt, like a steppe grass, mop of flaxen hair and penetrating blue as sky in the south eyes. "What to do now? - I don't know." He knows. Husband. He is not angry or silly. He is such as he is. He is just living. What to do, when dog bitted off the daughter's finger? To cut off finger, to kill the dog. What to do, when wife is leaving home? To burn the house. What to do, when she is leaving for someone else? He also knows…
Cast: Poļina Agurejeva, Mihails Okuņevs, Maksims Ušakovs
Directed by Ivans Viripajevs
Wimbledon, 1980. The rainiest summer in decades. The world is waiting to see the number one tennis player in the world, Björn Borg, claim his fifth Wimbledon title. But few know of the drama behind the scenes: at only 24, Borg is close to the end - run-down, worn out and ridden with anxiety. Meanwhile, the challenger John McEnroe, 20, has decided to replace his former hero on the Wimbledon throne.
Borg/McEnroe is a film of one of the world's greatest icons Björn Borg and his biggest rival, the young and talented John McEnroe and their legendary duel during the 1980's Wimbledon tournament. It's a story of two men that became legends and the price they had to pay.