Denis Kozinets

Dans une vaste cité de glace tenue par un gouvernement militaire, Matthew, jeune homme issu des quartiers pauvres, tente de subvenir aux besoins de son père malade. Poussé par les circonstances, il rejoint à contrecœur la Ligue, une bande de voleurs aux aspirations révolutionnaires. Un soir alors qu'il tente de pénétrer dans la demeure d'un riche aristocrate, il tombe nez à nez avec leur fille, Alice. Alors que tout semble les opposer, ils tombent éperdument amoureux. Mais tous deux ignorent que leur idylle est en danger : les parents d'Alice tentent de la marier de force au Général de la ville, lequel a pour ambition d'éradiquer la Ligue dont Matthew fait partie...

Garpastum is a Latin word meaning ball game. Set in 1914 in St. Petersburg, the brothers Andrey and Nikolai are passionate about the matches they play on the streets. They hatch a scheme to buy a playing field. But World War I has already begun and soon their lives and dreams will be shattered.

URSS, 1971. Six jours dans la vie de l’auteur Sergei Dovlatov, qui se bat pour écrire avec intégrité malgré l’écrasante censure imposée par le régime soviétique.

Ilya stutters a lot, and this interferes with everything - his personal life, communication with the child, work. In desperation, he enrolls in the course of the famous doctor Cherkasova, a guru in his field, whom patients consider a magician and wizard. There he meets new friends and a new love - a young girl Vera. But it turns out that Cherkasova herself likes Ilya, and she intends to win him over.

In a forest river, hunters find the body of a young singer named Yanka Diaghilev. From that moment on, a confusing chronicle of the last day in the girl's life begins, during which she will travel a long way - from the city to the dacha, and then into the thicket to the river. On this day, Yanka will have time to see and talk with many people, real and imaginary, even with those who are no longer alive. It seems that Yankee's next step is about to shed light on the circumstances of her mysterious death: hopeless love, arguments with loved ones, disagreements with herself, strange meetings with strangers in the forest.

1945, la deuxième guerre mondiale a ravagé Léningrad. Au sein de ces ruines, deux jeunes femmes, Iya et Masha, tentent de se reconstruire et de donner un sens à leur vie.

1942, a remote village in the rear. Sixteen-year-old Semka decides to volunteer for the partisans. Irina seeks to keep her son by force. However, the only one she can turn to for help is her nephew, a policeman. The movie is based on the story of the same name by Vasil Bykov.

1826, St. Petersburg. After the suppression of speeches on the Senate Square, the investigative commission begins searching for the Decembrists. Some of them are caught by the authorities because of informers. Suddenly, a series of brutal murders takes place in St. Petersburg: the victims are those who denounced the Decembrists. A piece of paper with lines from a poem by the young poet Alexander Pushkin invariably remains near the bodies of the dead. A Moscow detective and a nobleman released from arrest, Alexander Boshnyak, are taking over the investigation of the case.