Captain Fedor Volkonogov is part of the law enforcement system. He is appreciated by the commander and respected by colleagues. But the moment comes for Captain's life to take the abrupt turn - he is criminally charged. Captain manages to escape prior to the arrest turning in a split of the second into prey hunted down by ex-colleagues. At night Fedor receives the warning from the afterlife that he is destined for Hell and eternal torments. Though Captain still has a chance to change the destiny and be accepted to Heaven under condition that he repents and at least one person grants him sincere forgiveness. Fedor sets on a mission to find absolution without idea of the trials he is to face on this route.
Like Fritz Lang, David Fincher or Bong Joon Ho before him, talented debut filmmaker Lado Kvataniya uses the concept of police detective vs serial killer for an excitingly stylised, macabre and haunting narrative, that ultimately revolves around the identity of an era: in this case, the late 1980s Soviet Union. With Glasnost and the end of communist rule, the West also learned of the (unsurprising) fact that there were serial killers in Russia too – the most notorious case probably that of Andrei Chikatilo, nicknamed the Rostov Ripper, or the Russian Hannibal Lecter. Based on these and many other sources, Kvataniya and screenwriter Olga Gorodetskaya constructed an immersive psychological puzzle, jumping back and forth in time, to reveal ever new-possible motives for the actions of all the protagonists. It all starts in 1990, when Detective Issa Davydov is celebrating his promotion and receives a call, reporting a crime that looks precisely like the ones of the serial killer that he famously captured some years before ...
在遥远的东方世界,有一座与世无争的世外仙境“太阳岛”,岛主之子龙威是一个典型的“网瘾+废柴”少年,却整天做着展翅高飞,拯救世界的白日梦,因为根据古老的预言,当整个世界陷入邪恶黑暗的时候,太阳岛上的太阳鸭就会出现并带领大家对抗邪恶,保护每一寸土地都能照到阳光,滋润万物生长,不受到邪恶力量的威胁。多年后的某一天,绿头鸭军团意外来到太阳岛,东方鸭与绿头鸭之间的矛盾对抗打破了太阳岛长久以来的平静生活,意外的是身为太阳岛岛主之子的龙威与绿头鸭司令的女儿艾瑞卡,却在东方鸭、太阳鸭的高压对峙下陷入到了甜蜜恋爱之中,然而就在双方剑拔弩张战况愈演愈烈之际,那个被众人遗忘的“黑暗寓言”却在邪恶女巫婥特的布局下悄然发生……黑暗降临之际,曾经的“废柴+网瘾少年”的龙威能否突破宿命,成为拯救世界的鸭界超级英雄——太阳鸭呢?
在一辆开往莫斯科的火车上,军事学院的学生安德烈.托尔斯泰(欧列格·缅希科夫 Oleg Menshikov饰)偶遇了风情万种的美国女人珍(朱莉娅·奥蒙德 Julia Ormond 饰),两人暗生情愫。珍谎称自己是个寡妇,来俄罗斯看 望疯狂的机械师父亲(理查德·哈里斯 Richard Harris 饰),但实际上是被请来骗取军事学院院长拉德洛夫将军(阿列克谢·彼得连科 Aleksey Petrenko 饰)信任的交际花,好让机械师的“西伯利亚理发师”伐木机能够顺利驶进西柏林亚。但是没想到将军对珍动了真感情,并想向她求婚,而安德烈对珍的感情愈演愈烈,珍一方面想接受安德烈的感情,另一方面又想完成任务,于是事件发展到了不可收拾的地步。在一次演出中安德烈因为嫉妒和误会,抽伤了院长,被流放到了西伯利亚。在火车站上尽管珍赶上了最后的送别,但是安德烈始终没能和珍见最后一面。十年后,珍终于在西伯利亚找到了安德烈的住所,但终究逃不过命运的改变……若干年后珍回到了美国,把这段往事在信中讲述给了军事学院的儿子。
影片是根据谢尔盖·卢科扬涅科的三部曲中的第二部《守日人》改编。 故事发生在上一集叶戈尔(德米特里·马丁诺夫 Dmitry Martynov 饰)归入黑暗阵营几年之后,安东(康斯坦丁·哈宾斯基 Konstantin Khabenskiy 饰)与其新女友兼徒弟斯维塔担当光明阵营力量的同时,叶戈尔也在逐渐成长为黑暗阵营中一名拥有强大力量的少年,并受到父亲安东暗中的保护。直到黑暗阵营中一名吸血鬼的离奇死亡,打破了光明与黑暗之间的微妙平衡,安东更被诬陷为凶手。审判庭裁定如果在期限之内无法证明安东不是凶手,光明和黑暗两大阵营之间的大战将一触即发。为此,安东开始寻找古代传说中那能改变命运的神器——命运粉笔,来挽回这摇摇欲坠的世界……
Moscow, summer 2016. A new lecture, a new guest lecturer (non other than renowned American actor and director, John Malkovich) and a new theme: “How to preserve love in the modern world” – five short stories about love. Some hilarious, some moving, all thought-provoking! The heroes suffer, struggle for love and often find themselves in absurd and ridiculous situations. Yet their trust in love, is even more real. Recommended for adults only, About Love is a must-see.
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.