Mariya Kapnist

The heroine of the film is a talented Ukrainian film actress Maria Kapnist. The film acquaints with the well-known family of Decembrists - Kapnists, with the difficult camp past of the heroine, with screen images of Maria Rostislavovna.

After the death of her father, a young woman travels to a remote convent on an island in the Black Sea to find out why her father funded it for years.

This film is of interest primarily because it contains within it the entire surviving footage of an unfinished 1974 film by the same director, Slave of Love, which was successfully remade shortly thereafter by another director, Nikita Mikhalkov.The "cover" story is about a woman (Jeanne Moreau) newly released from prison camps in the 1940s back into Russian society, who finds that there is no place for her in the world she has come back to. However, this painterly film is so filled with striking and surreal imagery that it would be misleading to say that the story is of any great importance in relation to that.

Two friends, having no hope for law enforcement agencies, decide to fight the mafia on their own. One of them dies in an unequal fight.

The film tells about the engineer Gorelikov, who, together with his disabled friend, opens a salon with computers for children and students. And suddenly they are attacked by a gang of racketeers.

Kazakhstan. 1954. Copper mines. Concentration camp. In the center of the plot - a revolt which prisoners raised in protest against the inhuman treatment.

Due to a brain injury received in a street fight, Gera Romanov begins to fall into parallel worlds, where he dies painfully every time.

The plot of the movie is based on books of Isaak Babel about Jewish criminals in city of Odessa before and after the Russian revolution.

In the Ukrainian village of Konotop, the chief Centurion wants to marry a beautiful girl and asks for the help of a young witch.

The man does everything to protect the still chaste population from the corrupting influence of consumer society.