Balagan

Dovlatov charts six days in the life of a brilliant, ironic writer who saw far beyond the rigid limits of 70s Soviet Russia. Sergei Dovlatov fought to preserve his own talent and decency with poet and writer Joseph Brodsky, while watching his artist friends got crushed by the iron-willed state machinery.

The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.

A woman watches time pass beside the suitcases of her ex-lover (who is supposed to come pick them up but never arrives) and a restless dog who doesn't understand that his master has abandoned him.

A poetic and powerful story of a father forced to choose between love and duty.

While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.