Aleksandr Abdulov

When in 1941 Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, their troops quickly besieged Leningrad. Foreign journalists are sent to Moscow but one of them, Kate Davies, is presumed dead and misses the plane. Alone in the city she is helped by Nina Tsvetnova a young and idealist police officer and together they will fight for their own survival and the survival of the people in the besieged city. (imdb)

Lev Durov is a merchant, living in a fairytale Russia of hundreds of years ago. When he is making a journey to market, his three daughters each ask for a present to be brought back. But a magic spell is cast on him, and they need to go and find him. In doing so, one falls in love with a tree-spirit, who turns out to be an enchanted prince... (imdb)

The film relays the story of the baron's life after the adventures portrayed in the book, particularly his struggle to prove himself sane. In the movie, baron Munchausen is portrayed as multi-dimensional, colorful, non-conformist man living in a gray, plain, dull and conformist society that ultimately tries to destroy him. (Wikipedia)

The setting for this off-beat drama of love and jealousy is the Pushkin Poetry Festival in Boldino. Liosha and his wife Tania are walking through the forest when a mysterious figure pops up and asks the couple a question on an esoteric point of Pushkin scholarship. The man then starts to ease himself into the couple's private space. Complementing this story is the festival itself, enactments of Pushkin's works, and emotional debates among the festival-goers over the meaning of his poetry. (allmovie.com)

Nina is in love with a priest and she is prepared to make any sacrifices to gain his love. The girl doesn't know that the object of her desires is far from being ideal, and that there was a crime in his past. (imdb)

Master and Margarita (2005) is a Menippean film based on the eponymous book by Mikhail A. Bulgakov. Set in Moscow under Stalin and in Jerusalem under Pilate, it has several story-lines where history, religion and politics are intertwined.

Sokurov uses "Madame Bovary" as his inspiration, and transforms hidden desires and longing of the protagonist into metaphysical beauty.

A young aristocrat, Aleksei Fedyashev, is languishing in his family's country estate, spending his days reading poetry and confessing his love... to a statue. Upon hearing that famous Count Cagliostro is touring Russia and has created quite a buzz in high society with his "magic", he decides to ask the Count to bring the statue to life... (imdb)

Ivan is in love with Alyona, a witch in a state-run institute for magical research. Alyona's scheming coworker Sataneev tricks her boss into casting a spell on her. As a result, Alyona forgets about Ivan and promises to marry Sataneev. Ivan and Alyona's friends break the curse in time for the New Year's Eve celebrations.

Nadya Klyueva is a single woman. Persuaded by her friend, she decides to charm her co-worker whom she doesn't really love, but who is the most popular man around. (imdb)

Dragon, a bloody dictator, is challenged by Lancelot, who comes to save the girl, and to liberate the people. (imdb)

In fact, people who then appear around Mitiya are all unique, eccentric and the space of the apartment house begins to have an unrealistic character as a miniature of unstable society in the end of Soviet Union. (imdb)

A coming-of-age story about a small town girl's struggle to become an actress in Moscow. (imdb)

Such dodgy combination with antique chandelier could come up only chess-player. (imdb)

The Soviet government sends an expedition under the Siberian Ardybash river, where, according to local residents, there is gold. Expedition members fall into the hands of the White Guards. (imdb)

He is overly intelligent. He is genius. And he's just trying to make his life a little bit better in an new era post-communist Russia. (imdb)