Svetlana Nemolyayeva

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)

Funny story about how a regular secondary school fifth grade "B" takes patronage over its new teacher - Tatyana Ivanovna.

A day in the life of a typical character of Russian history, "the little man": a school teacher of Russian language and literature. An intellectual and his problems at the beginning of the 21st century. A day in the life of the country which Yesenin loved. About a country that still has hope... (imdb)

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)

The film is based on Ryunosuke Akutagawa's story "In a Grove" which takes place during the times of Tsar Alexander II. A lady-in-waiting tells the Emperor in his bedroom a metaphysical story about a 13th-century prince who is killed in the woods under mysterious circumstances. Fairy tale characters who have witnessed the terrible death, all share their version of the events, gradually shedding light on what really happened.— (Production Center of Andrei Konchalovsky)