A wife finds her life transformed after a torrid affair in this story of murder. Katia is a rather dull young woman who types manuscripts for Irina, her husband’s mother and successful writer of romance novels. Katia’s husband is a real momma’s boy. They go to Irina’s summer house to work. There Katia encounters the intense and sexy Serguei who creates passionate longings with in her. Overcome she and Serguei engage in vigorous love-making upon a windowsill where Irina sees them. Irina has a weak heart. Quiet Katia, having rediscovered the joys of sex, changes and becomes more assertive and flighty. Serguei quickly loses interest in her. Strange and deadly things begin happening at the summer house which calls the attention of a judge who is extremely familiar with Irina’s writing.
In 1930s Poland Christian boy Ivan goes to live with a Jewish family to learn a trade. He becomes friends with Abraham, the son of the family. However, anti-Semitism is rife in their environment, and they flee to escape an upcoming conflict. Journeying together, they demonstrate their inseparability.
In 1946, a soldier fathers a child then dies before its birth. Jump to 1952: on a train, the child and his mother meet a handsome soldier who makes a play for her. She accepts. Posing as a married family, the soldier finds them a rooming house where he becomes everyone's favorite through his good looks and generosity. Meanwhile he gives the boy, Sanya, lessons in life: to fight back, to win at all costs. The child's mother, Katya, is head-over-heels in love with Tolyan, the soldier, but the relationship becomes rocky when Tolyan's true plans for the rooming house become clear. It starts them on a treadmill of flight that risks Katya's life, Tolyan's liberty, and Sanya's trust.
Dovlatov charts six days in the life of brilliant, ironic writer who saw far beyond the rigid limits of 70s Soviet Russia. Sergei Dovlatov fought to preserve his own talent and decency with poet and writer Joseph Brodsky while watching his artist friends get crushed by the iron-willed state machinery.
What about a son whose parents ask a question every day, whom does he love more? Mom or dad? What should mom do if she madly loves her son, but circumstances force him to take the child away from his father? What should be done to dad if his son is taken to America forever, and he cannot imagine his life without him? ⠀ This is a story of choice. When deciding for a child, a parent often does as he is comfortable with. The child agrees, afraid to hurt the parent, but time will pass, he will mature and at some point he will decide for himself. Only the parent from this will be much more painful.
This is a film about forces that posses people like demons making them strive towards their goal no matter what, leaving a bloody trail behind. This is a film about a woman who abandoned her child at birth and now twenty three years later she tries to find that child. More than twenty years of have passed since the day out main character Lisa abandoned her child. Now she is obsessed to find her daughter. She search leads her to a young girl that Lisa believs to be the one that she left at the orphanage a long time ago. Lisa begins to spy on her, invades her life. Even though later she will find out the truth, this is not her daughter. Lisa will not be able to stop being the mother figure that she has now become. And like a ruthless wolf she will not let anything stand in her way of saving her child. Two lonely souls that find a family in each other. One become a mother, that other a daughter. What is the price that they had to pay for this encounter?
Tiny Soviet village by the sea, in the years before the Second World War... A very young girl, Vera, falls madly in love with an older military officer who is visiting from out of town. She leaves her home and family to live with him in various military posts where he serves with the army. Through the difficulties of army life, and years of war, her love for this older man survives, and she gives herself completely without reservation. This film is about friendship, loss, survival, loyalty, and the wonderful gift of unconditional love, which is only given to a few.
В жизни бизнесмена Глеба все было идеально — и на работе, и дома. Он полностью доверял своему деловому партнеру и даже не думал, что тот может его предать. Но жизнь приготовила ничего не подозревающему мужчине неприятный сюрприз — верный помощник подставил его, и в результате Глеб лишился своего дела. Семья осталась без средств к существованию, и начались проблемы. Отныне супруге Глеба Лене приходится самой заботиться о себе, муже и ребенке. Она, буквально, сбилась с ног в поисках заработка. Между Леной и Глебом постоянно происходят серьезные конфликты — теперь они ссорятся даже по мелочам. Мужчина, измучив себя комплексом вины перед семьей, не находит ничего лучшего, как начать пить. Лена продолжает работать, скрывая душевную боль от посторонних. Но однажды обо всем узнает ее начальник Стас. Он предлагает коллеге свою помощь. Узнав об этом, Глеб приходит в бешенство.