Yuliya Peresild

The story of a young Chechen and his Russian captor during their civil war. (imdb)

Western frontiers of the USSR, 1942. The region is under German occupation, and local partisans are fighting a brutal resistance campaign. (mubi.com)

Film director Sergey Paradjanov creates brilliant films. His nonconformist behavior conflicts with Soviet System. He is committed to prison for being eccentric. His indestructible love for beauty allows him to withstand the years of imprisonment, isolation and oblivion. (imdb)

The breakout of the war shatters the world of a young student, Lyudmila Pavlichenko, forcing her to enlist in the army in 1941. The maiden turns out to be a natural-born sniper, her impressive skill and prowess make her stand out among men and women alike. Seeing Pavlichenko as a tangible threat, the German High Command gives orders to eliminate the girl whatever the cost. In the meanwhile, Lyudmila meets a man and falls in love. War fades into the background... (imdb)

A day in the life of a comic book artist and his family in post-Soviet Russia. While suffering from the flu, Petrov is carried by his friend Igor on a long walk, drifting in and out of fantasy and reality. (imdb)

Follows a female surgeon who has to perform an operation on a cosmonaut too ill to return to Earth immediately. (imdb)

1965. A seventeen-year-old boy is killed on the outskirts of Moscow. The suspicion falls on his friend but Major Tcherkasov, the best detective of the USSR, doesn't believe it. The evidence leads him to one of the most ruthless killers in the years of the Great Patriotic War. The plot is based on the true story of executioner Antonina Makarova. (imdb)