Yevgeniya Simonova

Afonya is a plumber spending the better half of his working hours in the pub. But this behavior isn't looked at lightly in Soviet Russia.

It's a movie about the Great Patriotic War and the life of Soviet war pilots, who died for their motherland. (imdb)

Twenty-Six Days in the Life of Dostoyevsky was entered on February 16th at the 1981 Berlin Film Festival to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Dostoyevsky's death on February 9th, 1881, and won a "Best Actor" award for Anatoly Solonitsyn as Dostoyevsky. Solonitsyn was a favorite actor in Andrei Tarkovsky's films, and this was to be his penultimate role. This brief imaginary period in the famed Russian writer's life encapsulates one of his darker moments in 1866.

Zosya and Gosha are in love, but their love differs from what Soviet viewers got used to see, especially considering the age of the lovers. Zosya refuses to dispose of her unborn child, and Gosha is not ready to act like a real man and leaves his girlfriend alone with her problems. (imdb)

Irina divorced with her husband and lives alone. A man comes to her and brings a package from her relatives. The man stays. However, after a couple of days he gets into trouble. He was detained by the police because of a street fight. They don't let him go. Irina and her friend are trying to get him out, but their witnesses vanish mysteriously, and she is warned about not getting into the case. (megogo)

Based on the trilogy of books by Anatoly Rybakov: "Deti Arbata", "Strakh", and "Prach I Pepel". The events circle the 1930's to 1940's. The film leads the viewer into the Kremlin offices, communal flats, university lecture halls and even into prison cells. The viewer also gets to feel what various aspects of life felt like, including Siberian village life, life in various Russian provinces and the tragic events of the breakout of World War II. (imdb)