Lidiya Ishimbaeva

In Transit

A prominent scientist Andrei Loginov comes to the city of his youth, just for one day, while passing through. Here he meets the woman he once loved. Memories of days long past, of the people who remained there, turn out to be not such a simple matter.

Tales of Belkin. Shot

Over officer Silvio laughed at the fate itself in the image of a brilliant and successful opponent. How not to challenge this fate! And how not to give her the right to shoot first?

Az and Fert

The landowner Mordashov, in order to please his future son-in-law Alexei Fursikov, marks his daughter’s entire dowry with the monogram “A.F.” But the groom gives compensation. So that the goods are not lost, the prudent father begins the search for a groom with the appropriate initials Az and Firth.

We Are Men

A teacher comes across a love letter from an old friend, addressed to his wife. He decides to defend his honor the old-fashioned way - challenge his opponent to a duel, and strangely enough, it was accepted...

Faust

A despairing scholar sells his soul to Satan in exchange for one night with a beautiful young woman.

Christians

At one court hearing, a witness, who is engaged in prostitution, refused to take the oath, cause she didn't consider herself as a Christian. That incident caused great excitement in the hall.

Strict Girl

An orphaned ninth-grader comes to the factory where her father once worked.

Two and Death

A wounded partisan took refuge in the mill, and the miller informed the second lieutenant of the government troops about this. Seeing the partisan, the second lieutenant recognizes him as a friend of his youth...

Angel Pavement

Twig and Darsingham's offices were in Angel Street, London. The company's business is going badly, but suddenly a sales representative shows up in the office. With his arrival, the company began to prosper and the people who worked there had high hopes for the future. However, they were not destined to come true. Golspie's agent turned out to be a fraud who bankrupted the company.

The Pointsman

Ivan Perepasov has been serving at the railway station as a pointsman for twenty-two years. It seemed to him that all he could do was run along the arrows, give signals, light lanterns. The shift was coming to an end, Ivan hurried home, where his wife and eight children were waiting for him. Suddenly it seemed to him that he had forgotten, after the passage of a freight train, to throw the switch lever onto the main track, along which the postal train was now rushing. Ivan, in despair, rushes onto the adjacent track and falls under a maneuvering locomotive...

Solaris

Kris Kelvin joins the space station orbiting the planet Solaris, only to find its two crew members plagued by "phantoms," creations of Solaris. Kelvin is soon confronted with his own phantom, taking the shape of his dead wife Hari.

Badgers

Two village boys - brothers Semyon and Pavel - serve a Moscow merchant-shopkeeper. They face harsh exploitation and hard forced labor. The brothers' life paths diverge. Unable to withstand the merchant's bullying, Pavel goes to the factory, becomes a worker, and later a professional revolutionary. Semyon remains in service. In the post-revolutionary period, Semyon, having been to the front and returning to the village, joined the kulaks, brutally dealt with representatives of the Soviet government, becoming the head of a gang of “badgers” hiding in the forests. A Red Army detachment led by Pavel is sent to fight the bandits...

Li-ittle!

A young girl lives with an elderly couple in a settlement in a distant Siberian village. They liked her. When she dies unexpectedly, they go many miles to holy places to pray for the salvation of her soul.

Mitya

The chief engineer of a large enterprise is waiting for a meeting with the minister on an important issue and at the same time is trying to return the woman he loves.

Gooseberry

Three interlocutors are having a sedate conversation in a cozy hallway...

Labyrinth

Police are detaining an opposition newspaper journalist on suspicion of murder. The prosecution's evidence is scanty and fragile. But a dirty political fuss has developed around this case. The fate and life of a person become the stake in the struggle for power.

Woodprint

The former artist, and now the director of the Glass-Porcelain trust, Fyodor Kudrin, saw an amazing engraving at the exhibition. The meeting with its creator turned Fedor’s life upside down.

Who is in Fault?

Film-play based on the novel of the same name by A.I. Herzen.