Leonid Okunyov

A Russian soldier who spent ten years in captivity in Afghanistan returns to his home village and shocks all its inhabitants because of his conversion to Islam. During his absence, his father hanged himself, his brother served a prison term and his former fiancée has become a woman of very low morals. The village is the scene of endless drinking while the local boss is selling off the land for dollars to new-rich Russians... (Maywin Media AB)

Ostap Bender, a trickster and conman, plots to steal the wealth of a Russian millionaire who pretends to be a pauper in public. (google)