Aleksandr Feklistov

The film is based on one a chapters from Fazil Iskander's epic "Sandro from the Village of Chegem". It tells a story about one feast of Josef Stalin and his closest entourage. (Amazon.com)

A young boy's loss of innocence in a pre-perestroika Russian prison is the harrowing, Kafkaesque premise of the film. During the chaotic last months of the Khrushchev regime, a teenager's errand to the village market for bread ends in a nightmarish confrontation with local police (imdb)

First months of war between Germany and Soviet Union in 1941, told from the viewpoint of the Red Army detachment stationed in Lithuania.

Former criminal Sergei meets Vera - an elderly unhappy woman who lives in a dormitory. After Sergei commits another crime, they run together and along the way they accidentally get into a zone contaminated by radiation. Sergei decides to stay there, but Vera does not leave him. At that moment three looters come to the territory. (wikipedia.org)

The movie is set in Belarus, where a team of counter-intelligence officers is given only three days to find a German radio operator posing as a Soviet soldier, behind soviet lines, on the eve of a major offensive. (imdb)