Aleksey Filimonov

This unusual musical tells a story...a love story, between a girl (Gruszka) a and a boy (Filimonov). The film is divided into several scenes, each with their own title (like songs in an album).

Egor is a state forest guard in the Siberian Taiga. He is a good family man, respected by his fellows. He and his wife Natalia are expecting a second child. One day Egor finds out that he has cancer and only 2 months left to live. No medicine or magic can save him. Left with no options, he takes a desperate attempt to trick death, choosing to take the identity of a woman as a way of fighting the disease based on a local folktale.

Young married couple in today's Moscow: He's an unemployed guy who gets some money by giving rides to strangers at nights. She's a young graphic designer who just got her first job. The film tracks their unstable relationship throughout a year. (imdb)

A captured Soviet pilot faithful to his childhood friends leads an escape from a German concentration camp and then suffers from communist crimes. (imdb)

The series takes place in a small Russian town where a deadly virus appears. Most of the inhabitants die, only a few people remain alive, who are affected by sleeping sickness: people cannot wake up on their own, and after two hours of sleep they fall into a coma. (imdb)