Liya Akhedzhakova

A dark comedy made as a modern-day adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Valya, a young student is earning money by representing victims of the crimes during various police investigation. After the criminal has been seized a special group headed by a police captain has to reconstruct the crime scene. The process itself is quite comic and senseless: the criminals are defined already, and everyone knows, that they will be prosecuted... (imdb)

A group of old friends have a tradition of going to a public bathing house on New Years eve. Occasionally too much vodka and beer makes two of them unconscious. The problem is that one of them (Sasha) has to go to Leningrad but another one (Zhenya) goes... (imdb)

Anatoli Yefremovich Novoseltsev works in a statistics institution, whose director is an unattractive and bossy woman. An old friend of his, Yuri Grigorievich Samokhvalov, who gets appointed assistant director of the institution, wants to make Novoseltsev the head of the department but encounters objections from Ludmila Prokopievna Kalugina, the director. Samokhvalov then advises Novoseltsev to lightly hit on the boss. Ironically, Novoseltsev and Kalugina fall in love with each other... (imdb)

Soviet adaptation of Lewis Carroll's famous novel.

Once upon a time, there lived a princess, Vasilisa. The King, her father, insisted on marriage and decided in a fit of rage that she would marry the first person that passed by. This happened to be Ivan, a wannabe fireman from the neighboring kingdom who just happened to be flying by. The King forces Ivan to go to the I-know-not-where kingdom and look for I-know-not-what. Ivan undertakes test of courage as he tries to overcome incredible mythical obstacles in his search for the unobtainable. (russianresurrection.com)

The members of a Soviet cooperative have pooled their money to have a parking garage built. But it turns out that the garage will have four fewer spaces than planned. In brutal Soviet style, the 4 least-well connected members are evicted from the cooperative in a mock vote, losing their entire investment. But one member does the unthinkable. As if taking on the entire corrupt Soviet system, she quixotically locks down the meeting room and throws away the key... (imdb)

Twenty-year-old Bob rides 1000 km to Moscow on his vintage motorbike to collect a bad debt for his boss; the city chews up and spits out this naive country boy, whose head is full of Easy Rider dreams. (KG)

A woman lives alone on the outskirts of a village in Russia. One day she receives a parcel she sent to her incarcerated husband, marked 'return to sender'. Shocked and confused, the woman has no choice but to travel to the prison in a remote region of the country in search of an explanation. So begins the story of a battle against this impenetrable fortress, the prison where the forces of social evil are constantly at work. (wildbunch.biz)

...Near one of Moscow's train stations, on a landfill site, a group of vagrants lives. The head of those unfortunate people is "President" - a former party worker Dmitry Loginov, who like his friend Fedor, was in Stalin's camps. One night the President tells his friends incredible news. He allegedly had contact with aliens, who promised to take all those people to their planet - to the place where happiness, joy and peace rule. (wikipedia.org)

Five years after his intriguing debut, Proverka No Dorogakh, director Alexei German returned with this fascinating examination of differing attitudes toward war. The story concerns Maj. Lopatin (Yuri Nikulin), a writer who goes home to Tashkent to spend a 20-day leave following the Battle of Stalingrad. There, he works with a film crew making a movie based on his articles... (All Movie Guide)