Also Directed by Valery Fokin
The dream of Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of the shipping company, is to have a son to continue his business. Tragically, Dombey's wife dies shortly after giving birth to their son.
Vanya, an officious and dutiful child, grows into Ivan Shponka, a meek, paranoid lieutenant, then retires back to his provincial estate. Only one incident could make a crease in his lazy existence – his domineering aunt's urges to get him married against his own desire.
The lack of spirituality and the limitations of the “respectable” bourgeois turn the values of art into a means of profit, into an object of vanity.
Contact with an extraterrestrial civilization has taken place: the aliens offered to transfer knowledge that would accelerate scientific and technological progress of the people without requiring anything in return. Vladimir Ognev, psychologist and one of the UN’s experts on aliens, is being interrogated: according to the interrogator something that “can save the world” is hidden in the past of Vladimir. But what are the true intentions of the aliens? Only a few hours remain before a decision that can possibly end the history of mankind is taken...
Based on Kafka's story of the same name, "The Metamorphosis" tells the story of a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, who wakes up one morning to find himself transformed into a gigantic insect.
Journalist Lopatin always remembers those with whom his roads of war brought him together. Memories of them are an integral part of Lopatin’s thoughts about duty, honor, courage, and camaraderie.
