Yuliya Romashina

Ex-Gulag prison guard investigates murder on the movie set.

This is an ironic, sometimes frankly ridiculous and at the same time sad story about the everyday life of the so-called “upper middle class” - glorified by Woody Allen in America, but still very small in Russia among wealthy citizens. In addition to the enviable affluence, all these businessmen, movie directors, fashion directors, owners of dental clinics and their beautiful wives who are stuck in existential doubts and trivial adultery, are also united by their sonorous `pioneers` (Russian boy & girl scouts) past, which sometimes turns out to be much more difficult than to build a mansion in New Riga...

The dreamer Philip is full of wild and utopian ideas. But the pregnancy of his girlfriend Marina forces him to "grow up" dramatically: to find a stupid job, to give up ridiculous fantasies. However, in this form, he is unloved and no one needs. As a result, difficult childbirth makes it clear: one cannot do without his imagination.

Among schoolchildren there is a legend about the so-called lost place, according to which everyone who buys a movie ticket to this place is waiting for death. None of the guys believe in it, but a series of brutal murders makes young people think, as a result of which they begin their own investigation.

A lyrical and philosophical story about the lives of ordinary people: acquaintances and strangers, relatives and just met. Their lifelines are intertwined, but what at first seems random obeys the eternal laws of love…

A girl tries to rescue her father from a mysterious curse by returning a scarlet flower to its rightful owner.

A boy from a remote Ural village, who grew up without a father in a large family, managed not only to survive the hardships of a wartime childhood and post-war devastation, but also to become at the origins of the creation of the Group A anti-terrorist unit, which would later become known as the Alpha Group.

Pavel and Natalya did not know each other, although they had been successfully working in the same field for a long time. They worked only with the richest clients and served them in the first place. Both were top class frauds. And while their paths did not cross, they lived quite happily. But everything changed when their next clients turned out to be husband and wife, and the unlucky thief Marina took away the million at stake right from under the noses of the professionals, without realizing what she had gotten herself into.