A young boy dreams of going to the junior sumo wrestling tournament in Tokyo to find his father and make him proud. That is until a global pandemic turns the world upside down.
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……
美丽的少女安东尼娜某次在一场聚会上,被彼得柴可夫斯基指尖的美妙琴音吸引,并对他一见锺情。从此以后,“当柴可夫斯基的妻子”成为她人生最大的渴望,她不断写信、大胆表达爱意的行径终于得到柴可夫斯基的注意。饱受同志传言所苦,正面临财务危机的柴可夫斯基,在多方考察下,终于选择向这个疯狂迷恋自己、可提供庞大金援的女性求婚。然而,完婚后面对着对自己无爱、无欲的丈夫,安东尼娜倾尽所有仍徒劳无功。人们都说她有个了不起的丈夫,他是众人眼中的天才音乐家、万人景仰的一代大师,始终像炽热的太阳般高高在上。平凡如她不自量力地靠近,只能被烈焰灼伤,最终在这段悲剧性的婚姻中抛下自尊、陷入疯狂、化成灰烬……
In Skazka, Alexander Sokurov weaves digital magic to create a phantasmagorical vision of the Afterlife, worthy of Dante. But wait: are we in the limbo of Purgatory, or a paradoxical Paradise reserved for notorious men of world history? Mussolini, Stalin, Hitler, Churchill and more: all are present and accounted for. Since they exist only as archival media images, each figure comes in a serial set. In the blackest of political comedies, these fallen men beg, in turn, to be let through Heaven’s Gate – but the angels who peek through never open wide. Little wonder, as the former leaders wander listlessly, bitching (in a Babel of multiple languages) about each other’s clothes, hair and hygiene. In what is effectively a work of animation, Sokurov has pulled together many talents into an extraordinary technological feat. It blends pictorial elements from art history to form an endlessly unfolding landscape, replete with fog and ghostly armies of the sacrificed victims of history. Announced as Sokurov’s last film, Skazka is an inspired riff on the high culture of Peter Greenaway mixed with the low culture of mash-up artists Soda_Jerk. Can we now expect some entrepreneur to bring us the interactive Skazka video game?
Soldier Ivan Denisovich Shukhov was taken prisoner by the Germans, and after leaving it, he ended up in his homeland as a prisoner and he began to build a giant space industry plant. In conditions of hunger, humiliation and fear, he managed to maintain honesty and openness to the world, but will he be able to go free and meet with his daughters?
米哈伊尔是一位年轻的商人,凭着一股狠劲,他迅速取得了成功。他的生活充斥着一系列的商务会议,谈判和公关,根本无暇顾及个人生活,思考除了生意以外的事情。因为从小在孤儿院长大的父亲一直教育他,不能有爱,这会是致命的软肋。最近米哈伊尔与合伙人在一项地产开发项目中遇到了两位“挖掘者”的阻拦,他们要求项目暂停,直到他们完成挖掘被掩埋红军战士的遗体为止。为了摆脱纠缠,米哈伊尔假意跟随其中一人进入地下防空洞,谁知阴差阳错,他居然穿越到了二战期间……作为旁观者,身处战场的米哈伊尔并不会遭遇危险,士兵们也无法感知他的存在。就这样,在一次又一次短暂的穿越中,米哈伊尔看到了人间大爱,看到了那些为了祖国未来而无畏牺牲的无数小我,并且经由线索,他发现那些穿越回去接触到的英雄,居然是他的祖辈。
佳娜(阿格莱亚·塔拉索娃 Aglaya Tarasova 饰)出生在一个非常贫困的家庭之中,在母亲的鼓励和栽培下,佳娜成为了一名花样滑冰运动员,虽然佳娜的身体条件并不是非常适合这项运动,但凭借着自己的努力,佳娜最终成功的站在了世界顶级花滑男选手里奥纳夫(米洛斯·比柯维奇 Milos Bikovic 饰)的身边,成为了他的搭档。两人通过默契十足的合作夺得了许多耀眼的成绩,彼此之间也碰撞出了爱情的火花。 花滑世界杯即将开始之前,佳娜不幸受伤,无奈只能告别赛场,里奥纳夫也因此离开了她。就在佳娜万念俱灰的时候,冰球运动员萨沙(亚历山大·佩特洛夫 Alexander Petrov 饰)成为了她坚强的后盾。