Олесь Каціон

Napoleon has decided to declare war to the world. When he approaches Moscow, the Russian military tries to outfox him: they send a beautiful woman to Napoleon who is supposed to seduce him, so he will think about making love, not war.

The protagonist Andrii Dovzhenko finds out a horrible truth, that has been hidden in USSR for years - most of those accused of «anti-Soviet propaganda» were never sent to prison, but to special psychiatric hospitals with a diagnosis of "slow progressive schizophrenia". Andrii finds himself in a real hell of punitive psychiatry and faces a difficult choice - to cooperate with the KGB and return to his family, or to reveal the truth about dissidents tortured in such psychiatric hospitals. The script was based on the memoirs of Soviet dissidents who faced the brutality of a totalitarian system that used so-called "punitive psychiatry" as a weapon against free thought.

En 1988, le conflit entre l’Union Soviétique et l’Afghanistan fait rage. De jeunes recrues, revenant d’une cérémonie militaire, décident de s’engager dans le neuvième escadron, réputé pour ses soldats prêts à affronter les situations les plus dangereuses. Mais ce prestige à un prix, et les jeunes hommes subissent bientôt un entraînement extrêmement éprouvant dans la vallée de Fergana, en Ouzbékistan. Ils se retrouvent, quelques temps plus tard, au sein d’une bataille sanglante et décisive contre des moudjahidin...

Story of a successful businessman, who has to protect his business in difficult conditions. He gets entrapped into the net of law enforcement structures and after arrest the protagonist starts to notice weird things: some of his interlocutors appear to be not real persons, but phantoms, created by his consciousness. Fantomness, dematerialization of things that are obvious for common sense brings the author to the next stage of thinking - that the illusion of fear is also fruit of our imagination.

Un an et demi après le meurtre de son mari policier par une organisation criminelle, Tamara est victime de menaces de mort. Son meilleur ami, Boris, est également policier. Animé par le désir de résoudre cette affaire de meurtre et son amour secret pour Tamara, il commence à enquêter.