VGIK

Veta is a student of the acting department of one of the capital's universities. She does not show great promise, but she firmly believes in her dream - to become the best in her field.

Viktor spends his free time trawling bars with ladies of questionable repute, from where he is picked up by a wife he doesn’t love, the mother of a child they never planned. Viktor himself was abandoned by his own father, his mother then committed suicide, and he was left to grow up in an orphanage. Years later, his errant dad returns, now a disabled felon, and Viktor discovers a timely legacy is in the offing – his father’s apartment. The documentation for securing dad’s move into an old people’s home is signed in a flash. Nevertheless, the only one that can take him is miles away and, what’s more, the invalid starts to recuperate during the journey, which is when their real problems begin.

Zamira's life, already stingy with small joys, is about to be turned upside down. Her husband believes that it is time for the family to leave their familiar place. Faced with a fact, the woman will have to part with her familiar way of life, the center of which was a cow. The closeness between the animal and the man, squeezed in the vice of strong traditions, is about to shrink to the last shred. This means that Zamira will cling to it with a despair unexpected for herself.

Six various novels united in a one movie.

Winter. Snow is sweeping, a blizzard howls. The wife of old Foma died. Fomka takes a coffin on a sleigh to a village graveyard along a deserted, dusty winter road, and he sees that Nastasiya is walking barefoot in the snow - alive, young, as on a photograph...

An old teacher suffers from loneliness and insomnia. Long days are passing by, and there is no one who could support and help him. Incidentally, in an online advert of a brothel, he sees a girl's face, that makes his heart beat faster... A lost young woman and a lonely old man meet to change the course of their difficult destinies forever...

An anthology of five stories that can literally happen to anyone.

Agree, it is unpleasant when you are not noticed: pushed on the street, ignored in the theater, looked through. As if on purpose! And the pretty girl Elizaveta lives like this for as long as she can remember. Until one day she gets a magic yellow cloak from an unusual studio. Now Liza is finally visible to everyone, but is this really what she wanted?

A portrait of people who live on the margins of life and exist outside normal society.

1945. The War has ended. Alyosha is coming home, expecting tenderness and kindness of his beloved wife, Lyba, and his children. But many things have changed. Except one - his wife still extremely loves him. But would he accept that love? Based on a A. Platonov novel.

Ahmed’s father has only a day with his wife and son before he must return to war. With haunting, innocent cruelty, the children play games that mirror the adult world, leading them to discover the harshness of destiny

Sonya, the daughter of freak photographers who spend all day taking pictures and living in a photo studio, is very lonely and therefore tries to turn everything that catches her eye into a fairy tale. One day Sonya finds a friend no less strange than herself, and he helps her perform a miracle - revive a toy cockchafer.

Agnia lives an ordinary student life with her boyfriend Marat. Everything changes with the arrival of a new teacher in psychology. She has an interest in him that reveals the sexual pathology of a girl.

Polina lives and works in a small hotel in the northern border town. She and her friend Nadia dream of a different, paradise and exotic world. The girls almost never leave the empty immobilized hotel and live, performing their strange daily rituals in the hope that someday they will lead them to a miracle. Once a stranger arrives at the hotel.

An instructive story about a man who was born to be happy, and about the contrabass that prevented him from doing it.

A young man Ivan finds himself in his hometown, leaving this place 17 years ago. He looks around incredulously, trying to see in the surrounding fragments of his childhood. In this city lived his first love - little Anya. Now she is no longer 12, and he, too. But thoughts about the feelings of the past days still do not give him rest ... Vanya specifically changed his ticket to see Anna, but is she here? Does she remember him? But what if her life was too much shabby? 3 hours to plunge into the abyss of first love ...

Office clerk Maxim witnesses a car accident. The affected girl is experiencing clinical death, which lasted 4 minutes. After her “return”, Maxim’s life changes dramatically: all his dreams are realized with the help of a girl’s mysterious gift. How far will Maxim lead his desires?

The main character is a young girl Nastya who studies in one of the Moscow universities and lives in a usual dormitory. She is not happy with herself and her life. One night , Nastya finds a mysterious website «No man- no problem» and orders her death.

A lonely man at a resort spends the night with a married woman. By morning she leaves, and he remains - alone with the hair crab she had forgotten and a vague feeling of a new experience.