Zhan Daniel

The Scoundrel

Julia is beautiful, mysterious and... hopelessly lonely. She lives with her mother in a house where the cult of her late military father, a very harsh man and – apparently – a rare idiot, reigns supreme. None of the men Julia has met meets such a high standard. But mom is determined to get her daughter married. And then one day a handsome man in a military dress uniform appears in their family. The only trouble is, he's not exactly who they think he is... or not at all.

Drongo

The Bride

While trying fortune-telling young student Olga suddenly saw the face of her future husband and learned his name - Sasha.

The Tuner

A young piano tuner befriends two rich old-ladies, and plots, with the help of his girlfriend, to betray their trust and steal from them.

Mum's Better!

Young unlucky screenwriter Yasha starts a relationship with a beautiful young model. But having flown to the island of Crete to meet her parents, he suddenly falls in love with her mother, who is married to a not too faithful husband.

Three Stories

A man goes to see his former schoolmate working at a boiler house and persuades him to burn in the furnace the corpse of his communal flat neighbor whom he has just murdered after a quarrel. An orphaned girl gets a job in the archives of the maternity home to find out the identity of her mother who abandoned her years earlier. She finds her, befriends her and takes the first opportunity to throw her into the sea. An old intellectual tries to explain to the neighbor’s five-year-old daughter “all the abomination of her lumpen existence”. The girl feeling hurt for her mother decides to poison the old man with arsenic.

An Essay for Victory Day

The heroic crew of the fighter jet reunites a quarter of a century later. Fate has separated these comrades-in-arms, significantly altering their characters and worldviews. One became a radical communist, another became the chairman of the Veterans Fund, and the third lived in exile for many years. At first, the former comrades-in-arms find it difficult to understand each other, but when one of them gets into trouble, the others devise a plan to rescue him.

And I Love Married

Oleg is forty. Larissa is over thirty. Twenty years he lived with his wife Tatiana, who knows from childhood (studied in the same class), he has a twelve-year-old daughter nick. Established way of life. Good job. The emptiness in my soul — from the dashed hopes. And to top it all — she, Larissa. Very welcome, but from the point of view of sound logic — it is made unnecessary. The affair lasts for a year. They love each other as passionately as it happens only in his youth. But his wife finds out about their affair. Learns and daughter. The girl really wants to help her mother. And to eliminate razluchnitsa of the lives of their families. But it comes out differently…

DMB-2

Love Is Evil

Kostya, a young man who is deeply in love with Veronika is going to introduce her to his parents. But not everything is going according to the plan...