Aleksei Karelin

The Cry of Silence

Siege of Leningrad, 1942. Despaired Nina Voronova evacuates from the city, leaving her little son along in a deadly cold apartment. He is found by Katya, a teenage girl from next door. She claims he’s her brother, and manages to get extra food provision from the district administration. When Alexey Voronov arrives to the city, he realises this little boy is his son.

Alien Face

Talented actress Maria, who lives in a provincial town, receives an outlandish offer. For a substantial sum, the heroine will have to undergo plastic surgery in order to transform into a woman who recently died in real life. Considering the offer to be an extreme degree of insanity, Maria is forced to accept this “role” because she desperately needs a large sum for her brother's urgent surgery. As Masha embroils herself in a strange adventure, a series of dark events ensues in her life, escalating the atmosphere around the environment of the main character...

Kind People

The action takes place in a small Ural village beginning the War. The protagonist returns to his native place several years after the war and finds out that he is considered missed in action. The story about people whose quiet life was ruined by the War. The film reveals the tragedy of the whole nation.

A Time to Gather Stones

A former German officer is coming back to USSR in order to help to clear land mines he put during the war.

The Bomb

Russia, the early 20th century. Smart underground revolutionaries invented an apparatus detecting sexual impulses. That would let them use the erotic energy for the cause of the revolution, instead of wasting it in carnal pleasures, as the unconscionable bourgeoisie does. The revolutionaries start working on building a sex bomb, a weapon of formidable destructive power.

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".