Vadim Abdrashitov

Critically acclaimed director Vadim Abdrashitov once again uses a screenplay by Alexander Mindadze for this social drama in which Soviet youths are depicted as sullen and disrespectful to authority. Viktor Belov is a factory worker who is attacked by two teenage thugs. One youth is given probation, but Vladimir is sentenced to two years in prison. Viktor is troubled by the trial and the jailing of his young assailant and visits him in prison. (allmovie.com)

In this drama with socio-political nuances, a heroic engineer is able to save the passengers on his train from injury or death by sacrificing his own life when his locomotive crashes. An investigator Ermakov and journalist Malinin are both involved in the story of the crash but from two different angles: the investigator wants to find out why it happened, the journalist wants to laud the heroism of the dead engineer. (themoviedb.org)

In a surreal puzzler, this story of a fantasy lived by a disparate group of four men captures the visual imagination with its images and leaves a large question mark in the meantime. (themoviedb)

While on his honeymoon, a man sees a judge who sentenced him to seven years in jail and begins plotting his revenge.

A Soviet allegory made during the somewhat more permissive atmosphere under Gorbachev, of the sometimes puzzling relationship between a master and a slave. (imdb)

The ship "Armavir" was wrecked. Lots of people have died, lots missed. Two men are looking for the same woman Marina who can be among survivors.

Returning to Moscow from their honeymoon, a young couple strike and kill an elderly pedestrian. The husband must stand trial, but is it fair, he thinks. She was old and negligent and poor. Why should his life be ruined? (imdb)