Oleg Basilashvili – MRQE

Predskazaniye

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A popular middle-aged writer is warned by a fortuneteller that he will die in exactly 24 hours. He then meets a man, who claims to be him. The writer uses this bizarre situation to change his life and take revenge.

Chitaem ‘Blokadnuyu knigu’

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Amateur actors read stories from a book describing the 900-day siege of Leningrad during World War II.

Granatovyy braslet

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The story of a sublime unrequited love of a petty official for a young socialite.

Smeshnye lyudi

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Yady, ili vsemirnaya istoriya otravleniy

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A story of an actor named Oleg whose wife has been seduced by his neighbor. As he is thoroughly convinced of her infidelity, he would like to poison her. An old man named Prokhorov helps him to get rid of his wife by lecturing about famous deaths caused by poisoning. It is from Prokhorov we learn that many famous and not so famous like Cesare Borgia and Caligula were killed as they were poisoned.

Gorod Zero

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Karen Shakhnazarovs surreal satire of Communism follows an Everyman engineer named Varakin who arrives in a remote city where nothing quite makes sense, but everyone acts as if it does. Hes quickly drawn into the investigation of the suicide (or possibly murder?) of a local restaurant chef, Nikolaev who may (or may not) be Varakins missing father. The more complex and absurdist the mystery becomes, the more poignant and plaintive Varakins predicament I have to get back to Moscow, he pleads to no avail. Along the way were treated to a bizarre and wonderful sideshow of non sequiturs out of a Wes Anderson film, including an underground museum filled with a thousand years of real and imagined Russian history (Heres the pistol with which Urusov shot the False Dimitry II.) Frozen in time, frozen far beneath the surface, the waxwork figures are strangely beautiful and forlorn, like Shakhnazarovs marvelous and enigmatic satire of Soviet bureaucracy.

Osenniy marafon

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Andrey Pavlovich Buzykin, who makes a living by teaching at an institute and translating English literature, is cheating on his wife. Buzykin’s main problem is that he’s a kind man with a weak character. The lies he is telling his wife all the time are inconvincing, but he never has the courage to tell her the truth. His lover, Alla, is aware of his family life, but gets offended when, for example, he cannot meet her so that he doesn’t come home late, or when he doesn’t want to go home in a new jacket she gives him to avoid having to explain to his wife. Alla and Nina, Andrei’s wife, both leave him, forgive him, and return to him at the same time, and Andrei continues with this kind of life, full of suffering and deceit. Finally, both women are so fed up with his lies that they don’t believe him even when he is telling the truth…

Sny

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Russian countess in 1893 has strange dreams about herself living a life as a dishwasher in 1993′ Moscow after dissolution of the USSR.

Raba lyubvi

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Olga Voznesenskaya is a silent screen star whose pictures are so popular that underground revolutionaries risk capture to see them. She’s in southern Russia filming a tear-jerker as the Bolsheviks get closer to Moscow. Although married, she spends time every day with Victor Pototsky, the film’s cameraman. Gradually, it comes to light that Victor uses his job as a cover for filming White atrocities and Red heroism: he’s a Bolshevik. He asks her for help, and she discovers meaning in her otherwise flighty and self-centred life. Love blooms. Will the Red forces arrive in time to save them from a suspicious White military leader? Will she find courage?

“Master i Margarita”

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The Master and Margarita is a Russian television production of Telekanal Rossiya, based on the novel The Master and Margarita, written by Soviet writer Mikhail Bulgakov between 1928 and 1940. Vladimir Bortko directed this adaptation and was also its screenwriter.