Portrait of the Unknown
Moscow. 1974. Oleg is an actor in his 40s. He has a tired look, a charming smile and a deep velvet voice. His artistic destiny didn’t work out, so he records radio plays about a spy from the USSR who lives in the US. Suddenly the radio play gets shut down, and his wife kicks Oleg out. These rather ordinary events lead to an unexpected development of events in Oleg’s life and in the life of the people around him — artists, commoners, officials, Soviet and American spies.
Sergey Osipyan
Director
Also Directed by Sergey Osipyan
Black comedy about the routine of a large corporation, producing chocolate bars. The claustrophobic office space and its dwellers are part of a funny and grotesque picture. The main character, young man from the marketing department, tries to find his stolen car with the help of militia and head of a local gang. He confronts a chaotic life of a small provincial town outside his office, trying to guess its laws. As a result, he fails to fulfill the task of his American boss, and finds his Ford painted and rebuilt as a street-racer's car. Of course, his personal life also changes...
A day from the life of the Muscovite Yuri, who is stuck in a remote, northern village. he should have been back in the city for a long time, and yet he wanders through sad, deserted, autumnal fields and forests. his wife and his best friend force him to return to his usual life. But it seems that Yuri is comprehending something very important. he abandons those he loves and remains one to one with nature. But the world of nature plays by its own rules.
Part of almanac "There's No Hurry".
When the investigation comes to a dead end, a private detective Leaf (Kirill Pirogov) comes to the rescue. His method is an interrogation disguised as a sincere conversation or a casual conversation between two" accidentally " strangers who happened to be nearby. The leaf does not press. It does not threaten. It is not covered by the law. He prefers a confidential tone, and for meetings he mainly uses the most ordinary spaces: apartments, offices, corridors, car salons; any places where it is more convenient for a person to speak. Leaf is a chameleon who can present himself as anyone: a former TV presenter who has sunk to the bottom, a labor teacher, a clown, a trolleybus driver, a groom from whom the bride ran away...
The characters of the film are a young married couple (he is a writer, she is an actress) and a family friend, an actor in love with her...
1968. In the cold and inhuman outer space, the Moon circles Earth in an elliptic orbit. The USSR prepares for a flight to the Moon. On Earth it is night: dark blue, like the cold and inhuman outer space. A train passes through the night. Incomprehensible laws of the universe make bodies collide. Not heavenly bodies, but very terrestrial ones.
Every year, 25,000 people die on Russian roads. You could say a whole city is disappearing from our planet. And about a third of its "residents" were involved in an accident due to speeding. Many drivers do not consider acceleration even at 30 km / h a violation, but statistics show that they are wrong. Five different stories combined in movie almanacs will make every viewer, at least, think about the right choice of speed. Both on the road and in life.
