St. Petersburg Documentary Film Studio

The twenty-six-year-old hero, who previously worked as a parking lot watchman, went into business and could not repay the loan. And he has a wife and children. The current situation forces him to look at the world with different eyes.

Five sketches form a broken, fragmentary melody of the early 1990s: boys washing windscreens at crossroads; a young man back from Transnistria; a millionaire of the new age; a local theatre company; a Frenchwoman who has moved to Russia.

This movie is a collection of portraits of residents of Russian countryside. Not a single word. Only long look into the camera. Landscape. Flow of time.

By means of documentary films, the authors try to explore the deep essence of Stalinism as a phenomenon that was and is based on the historical, psychological and social traditions of Russian society.

An almanac of three different stories, united by a single New Year's Eve, Christmas theme.

The poet Roald Mandelstam lived in postwar Leningrad. He was seriously ill from childhood, rarely left his house, and knew his life would be short. His visitors included the composer Isaac Schwartz and a painters that would come to be known as the "Arafiev circle," a group of independent artists working outside of official oversight. After 50 years, a fresco was discovered under the wallpaper in his communal apartment...

Denis Lisov was able to defend the right to raise his own children and went to Sweden to pick them up from a foster family and return to his native Khabarovsk.

These images and sounds are poetic metaphors that transform “Elegy from Russia” into a document that provides a emotional–historical “memory bank” for all.