Iryna Tokarchuk

Lesya has committed a crime of passion which brings her a seven-year sentence in one of Odesa’s women’s correctional facilities. She has just given birth to her first child, and now she is entering a world populated only by women: inmates, nurses and wardens, women of all ages, wives and widows, daughters, sisters, pregnant women, and women with children too. If not for the color of the uniform, it would sometimes be hard to tell who is who.

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Sonya has no luck in the morning. She almost gets hit by Kostya's car, who also has bad luck that day. By mistake, she takes away his folder with documents and jeopardizes the signing of an important contract. The problems of young people do not end here. From Kostya leaves his fiancée, and Sonya is fired from the theater. And she is ready to give up the dream of becoming an actress. Will the heroes manage to find their happiness this year, if there is only one day left before the New Year?

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In the 1950s Odessa a charming woman is running an underground brothel. She's tired of the business hassles and is dreaming about having a family. Finally the destiny gives her a chance, but there's no way out.

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In November 1980, the widow of A. Tolstoy was robbed. Antiques are taken out of the apartment, but, most importantly, the Royal Lily brooch, made for Louis XV, disappears of extraordinary beauty. Since Tolstoy's widow has extensive connections both in the USSR and abroad, the case receives a wide resonance, the most serious forces of the Ministry of Internal Affairs are involved in the investigation, the Interior Minister Shchelokov personally monitors the progress of the investigation.

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A young student Irina comes to a small sea shore town to spend some time with her grandmother.

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Катя - успешная писательница, выпускающая одну за другой книги по психологии семейных отношений. В предвкушении романтического ужина с мужем Алексеем, Катя находит дома бархатную коробочку с кольцом, которое, скорее всего, вечером преподнесет ей любимый. Но это не единственный сюрприз, который ожидает ее в этот праздничный день. Утром, зайдя в магазин, Катя сталкивается с Мишей, своей институтской любовью. Двадцать лет назад они расстались по глупости и упрямству, как это бывает в юности...

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A determined student from Chicago is forced to fulfill the last wish of his ailing grandfather. He has to travel to Odessa, Ukraine, and bring back his grandfather's cat.

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The history of Bender's hunt for the underground millionaire Koreiko develops in the 1920s. Bright characters, adventurous adventures and a light veil of a bygone era in a new version of the classic work of Soviet literature.

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Based on the famous novel by Ilya Il'f and Yevgeniy Petrov this two-part-TV-movie tells the story of the of Ostap Bender and Kisa Vorobyaninov who are searching for hidden jewelry, hidden in one of twelve chairs by Vorobyaninov's aristocratic mother-in-law, to hide it during the revolution. But their priest, Father Fyodor found out about it and starts searching for the same chairs. During the movie the story is commented by the authors themselves who are writing it during the process.

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...Her son-in-law, Ippolit Matwejewitch Worobjaninow, is a former nobleman and a dandy who is currently wasting away as a small town magistrate in charge of civil marriages. He eagerly takes up the quest to find the treasure. Meanwhile, over the years, the twelve chairs have been dispersed all over the country. However, Worobjaninow is not the only one in pursuit of the treasure. Hot on its trail are Ostap Bender, a clever and colorful conman, as well as Father Fjodor, a priest to whom the wealthy aristocrat has also confessed her secret. Thus begins a wild chase that ranges from North to South, West to East, across water and land, from the country to the city.

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Events are unfolding in one of the hot spots of the Russia. The heroes of the film returned from the war. They are winners and losers, because they have forgotten how to live in peace. The war is over, but it is close and still kills. And they want to live so passionately. But how?

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In a small, poor town, a young worker falls in love with an actress from a traveling theater troupe and tries to keep her close, dreaming and working hard to rebuild a new town while the troupe increasingly faces decline and the end of its run.

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Fate brings the heroine together with different men, but her novels are unhappy: one lover returns to his homeland in Egypt, the other dies in a car accident. There is still hope for a third. Maybe we'll get lucky with him?..

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The popular pop show club “Odessa Gentlemen” took part in writing a script on the topic: how to leave the former USSR. Odessa became an arena where the interests of Soviet intelligence and the last Jew who had not yet left for their historical homeland collided...

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In this affectionate, leisurely paced comedy, an Odesa policeman is out walking his beat when he discovers an adorable infant abandoned in a cabbage patch. He does his duty and takes the baby to an orphanage, but later he and his wife, who have an unusually affectionate and cozy relationship, decide to try and adopt the little one. What they must go through to accomplish that goal is anything but straightforward.

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The chief of the airline agency gives the command to the special team not to drink, not to stand in the drafts and not to have contact with the girls, as these guys will have to hijack their own plane ... In order to identify weaknesses in the aviation services. During its implementation, our heroes are faced with real terrorists - this was not taken into account.

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High school students Vitaly and Lena met by chance in the slums of the Odesa suburbs. Imitating their parents, the heroes suddenly realized that even unkind attitudes of their relatives could not prevent them from loving each other.

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A few days from the life of the sex workers...

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In the old days it was called hypochrondria, or black melancholia. Now, apparently, it's termed the Asthenic Syndrome. Whatever it is, Nikolai, a teacher of epicly indifferent pupils, has got it, and it's not much fun.

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More than twenty years ago, the village of Luzhnoye was declared unpromising and the floodplain meadows were plowed. But there were people who wanted to revive the fertile lands and the abandoned village...

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he fascinating adventures of two mischievous boys Misha Kozlov and Kolya Sinitsyn.

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