Yuriy Bogatyryov

St. Petersburg, mid 19th century: the indolent, middle-aged Oblomov lives in a flat with his older servant... (imdb)

Olga Voznesenskaya is a silent screen star whose pictures are so popular that underground revolutionaries risk capture to see them. She's in southern Russia filming a tear-jerker as the Bolsheviks get closer to Moscow. Although married, she spends time every day with Victor Pototsky, the film's cameraman. Gradually, it comes to light that Victor uses his job as a cover for filming White atrocities and Red heroism: he's a Bolshevik... (imdb)

Early in the 20th century, family and friends gather at the country estate of a general's widow, Anna Petrovna. Sofia, the new wife of Anna's step-son, recognizes Misha, the brother-in-law of one of the widow's admirers: a few years before, they had been idealistic lovers and now she can't believe he has settled for a dim wife and a job as a teacher... (imdb)

Set during the Civil War between the Reds and the Whites that followed the 1917 revolution in Russia (imdb)

A woman from the countryside comes to the city to visit her only daughter and granddaughter. She is hopelessly lost in this world she does not understand. (imdb)

1944. Front left to the western borders of the USSR. For these places the war has ended, but peaceful life has not begun. Soldiers from near Vologda Andrey Komarov and Kazakh girl Adalat awaiting transport. The church paintings show heroes. This event brings joy and heroes. Germans suddenly appear. They are few, and the guy has a chance to shoot enemies. He figured right, and operates quietly. But the Germans set fire to the picture. (imdb)

Pavel Chichikov arrives to a small provincial town with a devious scheme in mind: he plans to enter high society by acquiring dead souls - the recently deceased serfs who are still "alive" on paper. (imdb)