Ada Staviskaya

My Last Name is Shilov

After getting fired from the police department, Roman Shilov wants to spend some time in personal affairs. But he gets a call from a wife of Michael Krasnov, who in past provided evidence, which helped to put into jail a dangerous killer. Now Nadya Krasnova tells Shilov that Michael has been kidnapped by unknown persons. Shilov goes to help his old friend and gets nvolved in the criminal events.

Serving the Soviet Union!

USSR, 1941. She is a famous actress, he is a well known journalist. But their meeting point is already set to GULAG.

Don't be born beautiful

Co-owners of the advertising agency "Major" Robert and Marina live in anticipation of a major deal with the Japanese businessman Sasaki. This contract, like many others, is solely due to Marina, who is forced to work for two, while her colleague Robert, an advertising genius and an incredibly successful businessman, plunged headlong into the pool of parties and love adventures.

The Turn of the Century

"The Institute of Conscious Dreams" - the so-called clinic is a mysterious place. True miracles happen here. It is here, during psychedelic sessions, that a door opens into a different reality, into the depths of a person's consciousness and his genetic memory.

Gadzho

A lonely, defenseless, unsettled man meets a beautiful gypsy woman and falls in love with her. Having left the service, having left home, he sticks to the camp, but even here he finds neither home nor love — only pity. So he remains a "gadjo" for everyone, a stranger.

Arithmetic of a Murder

A man, a local hooligan and alcoholic, is killed in a gloomy St. Petersburg communal apartment. Each of the residents hated him in their own way, and each had their own motive for the crime. But everyone has an ironclad alibi. A local disabled person undertakes to help the investigator...

We Strangely Met

A year ago they met on the same bench, he introduced himself as Yura. At night, Yura left Vera, promising that he would return soon. Now, a year later, he did not recognize her, he said that her name was Nikolai, then Alexei. But Vera still hopes for something...

Stray Dogs

A group of hunters enters a ghost town in Central Asia with a mission to kill packs of abandoned, and now wild cannibal dogs. But tables turn and there seems to be no way for the hunters to survive the horrific battle.

Exceptions Without Rules

An almanac of short feature films based on stories by Mikhail Mishin from the collection of short stories "Pause in a Major".