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The events take place in New York in the apartment of the mother of the owner of a seafood restaurant, Barney Cashman. The man is already over 40. One fine day he thinks that he has lived a gray, boring life: he has never cheated on his wife, never got into a fight, or gotten involved in any adventure.
Feb 1989
Three short films combine gentle Georgian humor and the absurdity of everyday situations. "Tedo" is about the consequences of an older football fan's passion for wrestling competitions, "Grazioso" is about a maestro conductor and football, and "The Misery of Old G.D." is about what happens when bread is not delivered to a bakery on time.
Jan 1988
A concert movie dedicated to the formation of the World Club of Odesa under the leadership of Mikhail Zhvanetsky. "Let many people be proud of the expanses and fields," says Mikhail Zhvanetsky himself about his favorite city, "someone falls to his favorite birch tree, thinking that it grows only here. We have the only homeland - Odesa, the only party of Odessites. Odesa is halfway around the world, from America to Australia. Odesa is a phenomenon, an Odessite is a character. Odesa was, is and will be one of the most famous cities on this temporal globe. And we, who stayed, and you, who left, will live and live with it.... Odesa is worth dedicating your youth and old age to it, and it will repay you like a native land".
Jan 1991
A documentary shows several contemporary Soviet citizens who are staunch supporters of the discredited Stalin. They include a public prosecutor, a factory foreman, a taxi driver and a schoolmistress.
Adaptataion of Mikhail Bulgakov's play "Zoyka's Apartment".
About Nikolai Bukharin and his comrades, about Stalin’s repressions of the 30s.
Jun 1989
Adults have no time for little Giga. Only a strange stranger, who turns out to be an angel, and his funny dog become his friends. Together they manage to find the lost angel wings.
Elena Sergeevna was surprised when four of her students appeared at her doorstep with a bouquet of flowers. They had come to wish their teacher a happy birthday. However, their true purpose was different. Under the guise of a birthday wish, they asked her to fulfill a "trivial" request that would determine their future. As the evening progressed, it turned into a cruel farce, where her beloved students played the roles of real scoundrels and ruffians, justifying their actions by the imperfections of the world.