Vladimir Grigoryev

A young guy, recently released from prison, goes to his once beloved girl. After 3 years, she is in no hurry to open her arms. Then the guy decides to seek it at all costs.

The story of a young man Serezha, who long ago moved to Moscow from his small provincial town. He has gotten used to the role of a metropolitan resident, listens to modern music, dresses brightly and feels great. But today Seryozha realized that something had broken inside him, some mysterious illness had appeared, giving no rest, changing his entire habitual life.

This is Peter. Not Petersburg, not Leningrad - namely, Peter. A city of big ambitions and opportunities. As a rule, unrealized. Often they joke that there is a particular climate to blame. As if he makes us all a bit lazy and unhurried, and turns the city into an endless northern Magnan. But let's be honest: if the weather was good here, you would have moved here. So thank you, Lord, for the right climate! Peter is first of all people. No museums, no cathedrals or movable bridges. People - this is the present. They fill the city with meaning. Make it alive. Rock musicians and street artists, businessmen and careerists, conductor, cooks, officials, urban madmen, just visiting. Everything is interesting here. Uneasy ... All yours. City swallows.

Le scénario de ce film est inspiré d’un récit des frères Strougatski où il s’agit d’une ville fantôme avec un internat pour enfants surdoués avec pour professeurs des êtres bizarres surnommés « aquatiques », ressemblant à des mutants ou à des extraterrestres. Le climat dans cette ville change tout le temps et sans raison apparente. On dirait un déluge total. Des commissions différentes y viennent étudier ce phénomène. Parmi les enfants de cet internat se trouve la fille de l’écrivain Victor Banev qui entreprend ses recherches visant à mettre au clair le destin de tous ces enfants et le sort de l’humanité qui en dépend directement.

The story unfolds in St. Petersburg during the season of White Nights, when night becomes curiously indistinguishable from day. Masha has struck it lucky: she is about to wed an American, Tim, eager to bring home a beautiful Russian wife. This marriage can take her light-years beyond her simple provincial roots, but for now Masha has a family to take care of, and she dutifully sends all the wages she earns to them. To save money she even dupes her fiancée by returning the expensive wedding dress he has bought for her to the boutique and sawing an identical one for herself. The night before the wedding Masha hastens to meet Tim, but fails to make it to the other side of the River Neva before the drawbridge is raised. The betrothed find themselves standing on the pavement with the mighty river between them...