Miron Alekseevich, director of a paper and pulp mill, goes to bury his wife Tanya in the place where they once spent their honeymoon. He goes not alone, but with a photographer named Stork, to whom he tells touching details of his life with Tanya. The narrative weaves together the memories of the characters, as well as the rituals and beliefs of the Meri people, a small Finnish tribe that once lived in the Northern Volga region and dissolved among the Russians.

Tsarevich Alexei was one of the smartest people in the state. His father Peter hoped that he would t...

The life of Marie and Peter seems perfect, but their greatest wish remains unfulfilled: a family of ...

The whitewater raft trip of two couples is interrupted by a visit from four prison escapees who take...

A true story about a gay boy growing up in the collapsing USSR, his courageous mail-order bride moth...

Ichiro Yoshida, the father of the boy Kiyoshi, who has been repatriated from China, returns home aft...

In the stillness of a remote town, a troubled writer intervenes in a neighbor’s abusive household— t...

In a future where water is scarce, a farmer defends his land and hopes to rejuvenate his parched soi...

In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poo...

When dictator Joseph Stalin dies, his parasitic cronies square off in a frantic power struggle to be...

Since time immemorial, the simple-minded boisterous people of Malava, a small Polish town near the b...

The story of a man and a wolf-dog in East Siberia during the early 1900s.

USSR, November, 1941. Based on the account by Vasiliy Koroteev this is the story of Panifilov's Twen...

Clara enjoys swimming by herself in the local pool after dark. One night she discovers a secret in t...

The film about the Holodomor famine in Ukraine, based on the novel 'The Yellow Prince' by Vasyl Bark...

An old Russian grandmother or "babushka", who took part in the Battle of Stalingrad, sacrificed ever...

When a stadium is seized by a group of heavily armed criminals during a major sporting event, an ex-...

A drug addict awakens to find the girl he is with dead, and must rush to escape the consequences.

Dominique Dumas is raising her 18-year-old son Antoine alone. Optimistic and energetic, she didn't h...