The provincial bandit of Vorkuta lived under the motto "We are not like that ― life is like that," but in 1999 the dashing 90s ended, and he received a sentence. In prison, he lost sleep, and after a couple of weeks of insomnia, he saw his conscience in the form of a man who said that as long as he was bad, he would not sleep.

Young Nastya brings home a tutor. But her mother is not happy with her daughter’s desire to study. A suspicious woman sees a hidden motive in the relationship between the girl and the teacher: Nastya was raised without a father and has now fallen in love with her mother’s peer: an educated, impressive man. The mother is ready to break off the shameful relationship at any cost: she does not disdain scandals, blackmail, or hysterics. But if she knew what secrets her daughter had from her...

A tragicomic story about a long going duel between experienced detective and young and pretty girl in the start of her grafter career.

The aftermath of a shocking explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power station made hundreds of people sacrifice their lives to clean up the site of the catastrophe and to successfully prevent an even bigger disaster that could have turned a large part of the European continent into an uninhabitable exclusion zone. This is their story.

Minetti is another historical character introduced into the play, to the utter astonishment of his contemporaries. Bernhard Minetti (1905-1998) was one of the most famous theater actors of Germany, a long-living performer who took the stage even in his nineties despite the difficulty in movement.

In fact, Thomas Berhard did create his play for the historical person of Bernhard Minetti. In 1976, the 71-year-old Minetti despised all unlucky signs and sad predictions and played the death of an old actor bearing his own name. The premiere of “Minetti” took place in Stuttgart (Wuertemberg State Theater) and after the premiere the actor lived for 22 years.

All the more interesting are some “corrections” that the real life of Minetti brought into the fictitious plot, and the unmeant predictions expressed in the play.

The next role of the real Minetti was Prospero from Shakespeare’s “Tempest” (Schiller Theater, Berlin, 1977), the role which Minetti the character longed to play after Lear and for whom Ensor was supposed to create a mask but never did. Unexpectedly for everyone, in the play there was a prophecy about Lear: in fact the last big role played by the 80-year-old Minetti at the theater was King Lear in W. Shakespeare’s tragedy: (Schaubuehne Theater, Berlin, 1984).

This is how the flight of imagination left the play and the stage and came into the real life of the actor.

Рассказы Чехова — это удивительно точные зарисовки из жизни русской провинции. Его герои — обыкновенные люди, до боли знакомые типажи. Чехов как никакой другой писатель распознал природу российской ментальности, ее корни и неповторимость. Неслучайно все великие русские артисты любили и любят играть юмористические рассказы Чехова.

В спектакле «Лица» представлен блистательный актерский дуэт народного артиста России Александра Калягина и народного артиста России Владимира Симонова (Театр им. Евг. Вахтангова).

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2021 film directed by Aleksandr Domogarov Jr.

The story about a very small god-forgotten village in Siberia reflects the history of Russia from the beginning of the century till the early 1980s. Three generations try to find the land of happiness and to give it to the people. One builds the road through taiga to the star over horizon, the second 'build communism' and the third searches for oil.