Galina Nikulina

En 1916, un moine d'origine paysanne, qui a réussi à fasciner une partie de la cour, et notamment l'Impératrice, accroît peu à peu son influence dans la sphère du pouvoir.

Le film s’ouvre sur un carton : « Le réalisateur a tenté de transcrire en image des citations de la prose russe du XIXe siècle et surtout le roman de Dostoïevski Crime et châtiment ». Au détour d’un quartier populaire de Saint-Pétersbourg, un jeune homme rencontre Sonya, une prostituée, qui lui apprend la mort d’une vieille usurière.

Journalist Mitchell Brown meets a tipsy woman at a bar and takes her to his house to spend the night because she is very drunk and cannot control herself. He looks for her documents, but finds only a checkbook with a strange number. The next morning the stranger disappears. Some time later, in the same bar, Mitchell meets her again in the company of a man who turns out to be her husband. She pretends not to recognize Mitchell. It turns out that there was a murder in the city that evening and she needs an alibi.

In Leningrad, at the end of the White Nights, young and childishly naive Nina meets a young journalist Valery. She falls in love with that genuine first love, which is only possible when you're 19 years old. She does not suspect that for such an ambitious aesthetic as Valerik, this is just another episode in an endless celebration of life. The leitmotif of the film, which became a cultural landmark for several generations of people born in Leningrad - St. Petersburg, is the natural scenery of the beautiful city on the Neva river at the beginning of the sixties.

The story of six-year-old Bobka, a kind and cheerful man who lives in Leningrad and desperately dreams of unexpectedly visiting his dad, who serves in the distant Caucasus Mountains. This is his most cherished dream, and it will certainly come true, but only after some adventures that are quite normal for this tomboy.