故事发生在二次世界大战刚刚结束之际,德国在战争中败落,大部分德军沦为战俘,被送入了战俘营中。在位于列宁格勒近郊的一间战俘营中,新来了一批德国战俘,负责看守他们的是一群英姿飒爽的俄国女人,她们的直系上司是巴普洛夫将军(约翰·马尔科维奇 John Malkovich 饰)。 娜塔莉亚(维拉·法梅加 Vera Farmiga 饰)是一名军医,她的丈夫因为在战争中受惊过度而精神失常,为了保护丈夫,娜塔莉亚不得不答应巴普洛夫将军的要求,来到战俘营,试图找出隐藏在俘虏之中的党卫军战犯。在这所阴森恐怖的战俘营中,无论是守卫还是囚犯,其身心都收到了战争所带来的深深的创伤,随着时间的推移,两方人马的立场和关系开始渐渐变得微妙起来。
After the divorce, Lisa was left with two children. Soon she meets a woman who is called her relative and says that their family has a family curse and that Lisa's boys are in mortal danger. Lisa refuses to believe in superstitious fears, but later strange visions begin to visit her, and she realizes that the curse turns out to be real. Now she must save her children from evil at any cost.
Lera is a sociology student at a small-town university. Her mother is a sleepwalker who believes in miracles, and her father just left the family for another woman. Lera has no idea how to make her life better. And one more thing: a spirit keeps visiting her dreams at night. And the harder Lera's life gets, the more often she has these dreams. That is, until the spirit steps into the world of the living.
Moscow, 1902. The famous director Konstantin Stanislavsky, in search of inspiration for staging a new play, decides to get acquainted with the life of the city "bottom". He turns to Vladimir Gilyarovsky, a recognized expert on the Moscow slums, for help. Together they go to the legendary bandit Khitrovka and find themselves embroiled in the investigation of the murder of a mysterious local resident - an Indian Sikh with a dark past.
Gosha is a trucker; he delivers goods to remote Arctic parts of Yakutia. He is a monopolist and his services are expensive. His greed lures him into making a run without a backup-driver. His truck breaks down in the middle of the road. Gosha is trying to fix it when an accident occurs. Now he is face to face with ruthless Arctic wilderness and death is only one breath away.
苏联解体后那个“疯狂的九十年代”,在俄罗斯北方一座工业城市。主人公伊万是一名雅库特人(少数族裔),因为20多年前那场不光彩的茹侵阿富汗战争留下了脑震荡,现在是一家锅炉房里的工人。一位当地的黑道大佬是伊万从前的战友,常常利用锅炉房来毁尸灭迹,“没关系,他们都是一些坏人”,如此,他安慰伊万说。但直到有一天,当Skryabin的女儿因抢走了这位朋友女儿的男友而被送进锅炉时,伊万才开始醒悟。战争并没有结束。 影片是一部极端残酷的暴力现实主义作品,可谓延续了阿历克塞·巴拉巴诺夫一贯大胆黑色的风格。他执导的《兄弟》、《畸零与色情》等片让主流媒体难以接受,克里姆林宫最喜欢的导演Nikita Mikhalkov(《毒太阳》)也曾出面攻击称《兄弟》的主人公“充满破坏欲”,“荼毒青少年的思想”。不过在2010年底俄国影评人们颁出的“白象”奖中,《火炉工》摘得了最佳影片、最佳导演在内四项大奖,成为最大赢家。
第10世纪末,基辅罗斯的最高统治者斯维亚一世暴毙后,王国震动,朝野纷争。三个王子在各自公国贵族的支持下,争夺王位继承权。弗拉基米尔本是三位王子中年纪最小且生性柔弱的一个,并且因为是父亲与女仆的“私生子”而不被家族器重。在父王暴毙、大王子谋害二王子夺下王位之后,这个胆小的王子在父亲谋臣尼尔德的帮助下,从家族的故乡组织起一支野蛮狂暴的维京海盗战队,开始了对哥哥以及杀害他父亲的异族人的复仇。等待他的是大王子的铁血武士、坚不可摧的波洛茨克城堡、突厥铁骑的劲弩和邪恶的异教诅咒;罗斯公国绝世美人罗格涅达和暧昧神秘的大王妃以及权谋、色诱、暗杀、绝望和背叛,更要面对强大的拜占庭帝国……铁血大帝弗拉基米尔将如何上演“王子复仇记”?
影片的时代背景落在30年代斯大林统治下的前苏联。科托夫(尼基塔·米哈尔科夫 Nikita Mikhalkov 饰)是红军的光辉领袖,拥有殷实家底和幸福家庭,正在与妻子玛露莎(英格波佳·达库内提 Ingeborga Dapkunaite 饰)、女儿一起在别墅中度过幸福时光。不料,一名不速之客闯进了这里。当他揭开层层乔装的外物时,人们认出了他——一个失踪了十年的没落贵族米迪亚(欧列格·米契柯夫 Oleg Menshikov 饰)。米迪亚的到来犹如地狱派来的使者,随着他娓娓道来的故事,米迪亚和科托夫之间的恩怨纠结、和玛露莎之间的陈年旧情以及随着时代而扭曲的人生,都在故事中一一展开。而更为残酷的是,他带来了一个令科托夫一家陷入绝境的消息……