Konstantin Lopushansky

The world after the nuclear apocalypse. Pale light lits the scenery of total destruction. The surviving humans vegetate in wet cellars under the nuclear winter. But somehow human spirit still sees somewhere the dim light of a new and better future. The next generation starts the walk towards a new life. (imdb)

The third chapter of Konstantin Lopushanski's apocalyptic trilogy.

Victor Banev, a Russian writer now living in America, is seeking his daughter, Ira, in the expanse of his former homeland. Banev's ultimate destination is a remote Siberian town of Tashlinsk, where military forces are now in control after some sort of unexplained catastrophe.

In a post-apocalyptic world, in which a large part of the population consists of demented and deformed mutants being kept in reservations, a man embarks upon visiting the ruins of a museum buried under the sea which can only be accessed during low tide. (imdb)

Konstantin Lopushansky's graduation work Solo (1980) has been recognized by many as the best film about the blockade of Leningrad. The film stars Nikolai Grinko, one of the most favourite actors of Tarkovsky.

In Moscow, in the autumn of 1993, a strike has broken out. Marina and her daughter Olga have found themselves on opposite sides of the conflict. Six years later, Olga is worried about her mother's declining mental state and decides to invite her to Germany to have her treated. Olga's mother, however, cannot shake the memory of her husband, who died during the strike.

'The Role' is about a brilliant actor in revolutionary Russia who takes on the greatest role of his life - the role of another man. Influenced by the ideas of symbolism and the Silver Age, he decides to slip into the life of his doppelganger - a revolutionary leader in the new Soviet Russia. First intrigued, then obsessed, he flings himself into the role and lives it to the hilt... (imdb)

This is a story of a blind girl who gets a chance of a lifetime. A rich man offers to her the precious gift of the eyesight, provided that she marries him blindly. This gift opens her eyes on the grim truth of life.