Elena Kostina

Sunday, Half Past Six

Young lawyer Sergei Krasheninnikov is assigned to a case involving the death of a young woman. As he questions people who saw her on the day she died, Sergei begins to realize that there is much more to the story than meets the eye.

Investigation Held by ZnaToKi

Flights in Dreams and in Reality

On the eve of his fortieth anniversary Sergei Makarov looks back at his life and learns that he has achieved nothing. He was not able to be happy and to bring happiness to the closest people in his life, neither to his long-suffering wife nor young mistress nor friends nor work... It is about the men who never grew up and could not find themselves in the time of stagnation – gifted, charming, but infantile and lost, they never were able to realize themselves...

Vertical Races

A drama about a psychological duel between a police detective and career criminal.

Zig Zag

Marti, the wife of a prominent American attorney in Moscow and Dimitri, a Moscow cop, are thrown into a web of greed and corruption in this Hitchcockian-type thriller.

Marraskuun harmaa valo

Kari Syysmäki, a Finnish Businessman is on a vacation with his wife in Tallinn. When his wife is away a young man enters their hotel room with a gun. He tells to the businessman that he has just tried to rob a bank, but accidentally shot one of the clerks. Now he's hiding from the cops. But when the bank robber forgets his gun on the table, Syysmäki grabs it and shoots him in the back. After that Syysmäki refuses to travel back to Finland with his wife. He stays in Tallinn and soon he's about to face both the cops and the mob of Estonia.

A Small Favor

Once a famous singer Valentin Ozernikov, returning from another tour, thinks about his fast flowing life and tried to formulate his criteria for figs further existence.

Sunday, Half Past Six

A rookie detective is investigating a young girl death

Comrade Stalin Goes to Africa

A mockumentary mixing actual private footage of Stalin with reconstructed dramatic sequences featuring doubles.

The Joke

Made in the tragic comedy genre, this film is about the dysfunctional Soviet management system in Azerbaijan SSR at the end of 1980s and about the decadence and corruption of the Soviet bureaucracy.