Irina Cherichenko

A group of high school students living their life in Stalin' time one year before the Nazi invasion in 1941. As the action goes by we see the exploration of life of that time from the typical young people concerns like first love to the reality of dictatorship, life and death, and what is truth.

A Soviet allegory made during the somewhat more permissive atmosphere under Gorbachev, of the sometimes puzzling relationship between a master and a slave. (imdb)

Office workers Maksim and Valentina evaluate souls for afterlife. Maksim sells paradise spots to oligarchs. Valentina schemes to free her hellbound husband, despite rules. (imdb)