Skydivers are jumping out of a plane - a young couple and their best friend. Sunset, freefall, the ground is closer and closer. One of the parachutes fails to deploy. Rushing down in freefall they realize that it is all about trust that has been lost.
This story take place in Moscow during the 1970s and unfolds around the love triangle between two young men and a girl who study at the same university. They argue, make up, and face their first disappointments and victories. While busy with personal lives and loves, they miss foreseeing that the country in which they were born and live will soon disappear from the map.
This story take place in Moscow during the 1970s and unfolds around the love triangle between two young men and a girl who study at the same university. They argue, make up, and face their first disappointments and victories. While busy with personal lives and loves, they miss foreseeing that the country in which they were born and live will soon disappear from the map.
A gang of skinheads 'Russia 88' are filming propaganda videos in order to place it on the internet. At the same time the camera records the life of the gang, they become accustomed to this and stop paying attention to it. The leader of the gang 'Blade' discovers that his sister is dating a guy from the Caucausus. This family drama develops into a tragedy.
Based on the novel by Booker Prize Winner Ludmila Ulitskaya, The Funeral Party is set in August 1991. In a sweltering New York City apartment, a group of Russian émigrés gathers round the deathbed of an artist named Alik, a charismatic character beloved by them all, especially the women who take turns nursing him as he fades from this world. Their reminiscences of the dying man and of their lives in Russia are punctuated by debates and squabbles: Whom did Alik love most? Should he be baptized before he dies, as his alcoholic wife, Nina, desperately wishes, or be reconciled to the faith of his birth by a rabbi who happens to be on hand? And what will be the meaning for them of the Yeltsin putsch, which is happening across the world in their long-lost Moscow but also right before their eyes on CNN?
Life does not spoil Albina, the head of a small railway station. She works hard from morning to night to feed her family — an adult daughter and an eternally unemployed husband. But, instead of gratitude, Albina is waiting for a blow — it turns out that her husband is busy all day not looking for work, but an affair with a young saleswoman! In addition to all the misfortunes, the heroine falls new: descended from the Moscow train passenger "from the height of the capital resident" demands to give him a ticket from the armor — he seems to be sure that he can buy the whole station with employees in addition.. However, when money with documents is stolen from a Muscovite, he behaves so unexpectedly that he makes Albina look at him with new eyes…
A humble history teacher Alexander Lvov, happily married to Anna, a woman with a child. His adopted son, 8-year-old Vanka, has long become Alexander's family. But here comes back from the army paratrooper Vadim Kotov, who served under the contract, Anna’s ex-husband and Vanka’s father. He wants to get his son back. In men, a serious conflict is brewing.
1988-1989. The end of the Soviet-Afghan war. The USSR begins its withdrawal from Afghanistan. Soviet General Vasiliev's son - a pilot named Alexander gets kidnapped by the mujahideen after his airplane crashes. As a result the 108th motorized infantry division's long awaited return home gets put on hold for one last mission: bring the General's son back. Based on true events the previously untold story of the courageous and tragic withdrawal campaign (through the Salang pass) reveals the danger the horror and the complexity of human nature during wartime.
The journalist becomes a victim of rape. To take revenge on the rapists, she makes a deal with the criminals. But things are beginning to unfold unpredictably...
Viktor Sergeyevich goes to America to visit his daughter and with horror discovers that his grandson Paul, although he speaks Russian, does not understand simple things that are familiar and understandable to every boy in Russia. Cheerless Armen is trying to gain a foothold in the United States, gradually comprehending all the delights of a fictitious marriage. For Yulia, who has long been established in the States, an unexpected problem is the inability to find a correctly prepared gefilt fish. Not so long ago, Igor moved to America in every possible way trying to disown his Russian past, calling himself Jason. It would seem that completely different people with completely different problems, but the adventurer George able to solve any problem proves that this is not so, all the heroes suffer from one ailment - they try to forget about their roots, missing the simple truth: you can leave Russia, but you can’t stop to be Russian.