Alina Khodzhevanova

A meeting on a train between completely different and unfamiliar people suddenly introduces them to themselves, revealing old wounds and tormenting questions. Why are they meeting? It's up to them, and perhaps to those watching them through the screen.

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In the summer of 1945, between the Victory over Germany and the war with Japan, 10-year-old Petka from a Far Eastern village tries to save a dying friend from a mysterious illness. But the only one who can help him is the Japanese prisoner Hirotaro from a military camp nearby. Petka and Hirotaro will have to find a common language, trust each other and call for help not only science, but even ancient spirits.

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After another grueling workday, Egor—the owner, manager, and mechanic of an auto repair shop—awaits his childhood friends, as he does one Friday a month, looking to escape his troubles and play cards. Having worked almost without a day off for years, Egor now lives at the shop. The friends gather, but beneath their initially cheerful mood, their own problems begin to surface—and those problems are every bit as serious.

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Police Lieutenant Denis Orlov is forced to infiltrate the Miracle Alcoholics Anonymous group. This community is regularly visited, and, in fact, overseen by former hard-line authority Vasily Sapogov. Back in the 90s, Boots and his gang stole the cup of the Russian tsar of the Time of Troubles Vasily Shuisky from the museum of the city of Electrospas, where his fake was later "triumphantly returned". But an exhibition of federal significance is coming soon, and Denis must now find the original.

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Yana lives in northern town, works at the post office, collects stamps and waits for her father from the sea, but she doesn't even hope for his coming home. One day sailor Petr comes to the post office, and it changes Yana's life.

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A young woman, long and hopelessly in love, comes to the object of her love in prison for a long visit in order to fall out of love with him.

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The plot is reminiscent of a fairy tale, when the husband goes sailing, and as a farewell, the wife ties a thread to his button so that she knows where her beloved is.

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A meeting on a train between completely different and unfamiliar people suddenly introduces them to themselves, revealing old wounds and tormenting questions. Why are they meeting? It's up to them, and perhaps to those watching them through the screen.

Open details →