Based on Boris Akunin's novel 'Azazel' (English title 'The Winter Queen') set in Moscow in 1876. The novel started a long series quite popular in Russia. In 'Azazel' a young police officer - Erast Fandorin - investigates an odd suicide of some rich young man and finds a complex conspiracy, trying to take over most European countries - from Britain to Ottoman Empire - with the best intentions, of course.

The good-natured scholar Christian-Theodore arrives in a small country where miracles occur. He falls in love with the beautiful Princess, whose marriage is a matter of national importance, because her husband will become the new king. But unlike many “suitors”, selfish thoughts are alien to Christian-Theodore. He is sincerely fascinated by her beauty and releases his Shadow, hoping to get a faithful helper in his quest to marry the Princess. But the Shadow is the embodiment of egoism, greed and meanness. Quickly betraying the scholar, he marries the Princess himself and takes the royal throne.

Based on the famous fairytale "The Tinderbox" by Hans Christian Andersen. The main character of the film is a puppeteer who lives in a poor and gray world. He composes a fairy tale in which he himself, in the guise of a brave soldier, finds a flint and is helped by a kind wizard. The soldier falls in love with a spoiled, capricious princess who, as befits a princess, poses riddles to her numerous suitors. Her father, the king, is eager to see the soldier as her husband, as he believes the soldier has a great deal of gold. In the fairy tale, everything ends well, but in real life, not so much. "But life is not a fairy tale," his beloved girl says to him as she bids him farewell.

19世纪末20世纪初，俄国资本主义迅速发展，贵族庄园逐渐崩溃。
天蒙蒙亮，柳苞芙带着她的小女儿还有仆人，从巴黎回到了俄罗斯。柳苞芙的樱桃园即将被拍卖抵债，她必须回来看看，想想办法，如何保住她心爱的庄园。
虽然樱桃园拍卖在即，但庄园里的人还是整天悠闲自在地消磨时光，他们更多的在幻想而非身体力行。庄园早已资不抵债，却要给一张书柜开个纪念晚会，柳苞芙早已囊中羞涩，却要在乞丐面前装阔气，女仆幻想着自己是位小姐，白发的先生依然把自己当成一名在校大学生……
远处传来空空的砍树声、天边外神秘的弦裂声，在众人的幻想中，樱桃园被拍卖了，而它的新主人竟然是……

A riotous dinner party where the guests are invisible to the viewer.

События фильма происходят в провинциальном украинском городке. Главная героиня Александра, только что пережившая разрыв с любимым человеком, вынуждена зарабатывать частными музыкальными уроками. В её жизни появляется врач-стоматолог Фарятьев, чудаковатый и неловкий человек. Он объясняется Александре в любви. Родные Александры настаивают на том, что она должна выйти за него замуж, но она никак не может обрести душевное равновесие и решить как дальше жить.

A love story of two people which turns out into triangle... So the steady family walls do not seem so steady anymore...

叶莲娜·米哈伊洛夫娜住在省城，靠着微薄的退休金生活。很意外地，她拿出了关于自己的死亡诊断书，按照诊断结论，她随时都有可能离开这个世界。为了不惊扰自己最爱的、在大城市当企业培训师且整日忙碌的儿子，并将他从潜在的忧虑中解脱出来，叶莲娜·米哈伊洛夫娜决定亲自处理这件事，她开始积极、忙碌地操办自己的葬礼……充满象征意味的鲤鱼并未冻伤，而是诗意的契约。

根据陀思妥耶夫斯基同名短篇小说改编。

Professor Sretenski is a scientist and director of a research center in Russia. He is separated from his wife and lives alone. His daughter, who lives with the mother, comes to his home and stays with him for a period, leaving her daughter with him. He raises his granddaughter, feeling a great affection for her. Meanwhile, a former disciple of Sretenski motivates him to study again his former research. This very slow Russian low budget movie is supported by magnificent interpretation of the cast and a fine and sensitive direction. The main idea is to show the love of Sretenski for the three women of his life: his wife, who left him to live with an accountant; his daughter, who had some sort of emotional problem and changed husband almost as much as she changed clothes; and his granddaughter, who was raised by him, creating a great emotional bond between them. His love for research is also touched, when his former student motivates him to come back to his former work. The major problem is, besides the language, the `jumps' in time, showing older characters and not situating the event in time. You see, for example, the baby granddaughter in one scene, and in the next one, she is a young woman without much information to the viewer. Therefore, you have to identify who is she in a birthday (or wedding) party and what is happening. It seems that the story would be much longer, and was cut in the edition. Anyway, it is a beautiful movie, indicated for sensitive viewers.

1979 film by Georgiy Daneliya

叶莲娜（玛丽娜·涅约洛娃 Marina Neyolova 饰）是一位数学老师，整日里独来独往，非常的忧郁和孤独。这一天是叶莲娜的生日，她从来都没有想过会有什么人来为自己庆祝这个生日，然而，当夜，四个学生敲响了她的房门。他们带着鲜花和美酒，真挚的祝福着他们的老师。然而，叶莲娜觉得四人的举动始终有些怪异。
果不其然，这四人令有他们自己的目的，他们的目的就是请求叶莲娜将存放期末考试考卷的保险箱钥匙交出来，好让他们交换考的不理想的考卷。作为一名教师，叶莲娜果断的拒绝了这一请求，四人从一开始的苦苦哀求，到之后的态度逐渐强硬，悲剧就这样发生了。