Leonid Kushnir
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Among Grey Stones
1983-12-01
Among Grey Stones
Overview: A judge is devastated after the death of his wife and is neglectful of his children. His son befriends the children of a street beggar who live in an abandoned, derelict church. After his experience with his new friends, the young boy begins to feel sorry for his father and sympathizes with his loneliness.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1983-12-01
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Three Stories
1997-03-13
Three Stories
Overview: A man goes to see his former schoolmate working at a boiler house and persuades him to burn in the furnace the corpse of his communal flat neighbor whom he has just murdered after a quarrel. An orphaned girl gets a job in the archives of the maternity home to find out the identity of her mother who abandoned her years earlier. She finds her, befriends her and takes the first opportunity to throw her into the sea. An old intellectual tries to explain to the neighbor’s five-year-old daughter “all the abomination of her lumpen existence”. The girl feeling hurt for her mother decides to poison the old man with arsenic.
Genres: Crime Comedy Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1997-03-13
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The Asthenic Syndrome
1989-12-01
The Asthenic Syndrome
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1989-12-01
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Change of Fortune
1987-07-28
Change of Fortune
Overview: A lawyer defends a wealthy woman accused of murder. She claims it was self-defense. The lawyer is not sure.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1987-07-28
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Two in One
2007-11-27
Two in One
Overview: This celebrated director's "exquisite cruelty" appears front and center when the death of a stage actor turns a theatrical drama into a real one. Two in One's two parts, "Stagehands" and "Woman of a Lifetime," celebrate the psychological richness that lurks just beneath the surface of banal reality - if murderous stagehands, lascivious fathers and vengeful daughters can be described as banal.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2007-11-27
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The Sentimental Policeman
1992-01-13
The Sentimental Policeman
Overview: In this affectionate, leisurely paced comedy, an Odessa 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1992-01-13
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Eternal Homecoming
2013-01-02
Eternal Homecoming
Overview: A woman is paid a surprise visit by her long-forgotten classmate, who needs her advice: should he choose a wife or a lover? An outrageously burlesque mise-en-scène is repeated many times but each time in a different place and performed by new actors. Why?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2013-01-02
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Dummy
2007-04-17
Dummy
Overview: A strange man intervenes between ex-spouses on a matter directly related to a large sum of money one of them had secured after selling a piece of property.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2007-04-17
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