, 3h Directed byNikita Mikhalkov OriginRussie GenresDrama, Comedy, Historical, Romance ActorsJulia Ormond, Richard Harris, Oleg Menshikov, Marina Neïolova, Alexeï Petrenko, Daniel Olbrychski Rating76% Jane Callahan (Julia Ormond), a beautiful American lady, writes to her son, a cadet at a famous military academy, about a long kept secret. Twenty years ago she arrived in Russia to assist Douglas McCracken (Richard Harris), an obsessive engineer who needs the Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich's patronage to sponsor his invention, a massive machine to harvest the forests. On her travels, she meets two men who would change her life forever: a handsome young cadet Andrej Tolstoy (Oleg Menshikov) with whom she shares a fondness for opera, and the powerful General Radlov who is entranced by her beauty and wants to marry her. Tolstoy and Radlov, much to the surprise and indignation of the latter, become rivals for Jane's love. She confides a deep secret to Tolstoy, promises to marry him, and together they spend a passionate night of love. But later he overhears Jane denying her interest in him to the General, in order to win the general's favour and be granted an audience with the Grand Duke. Distraught, Tolstoy attacks the General who arrests his young rival on false charges and banishes him to Siberia to seven years of hard labor and five years of isolation.
, 1h GenresDrama, Comedy, Fantasy, Animation ThemesChildren's films ActorsEvgueni Leonov, Boris Novikov, Tatyana Vasilyeva Roles Princess Ulyanka (voice) Rating77% In the evening, several Pomor men have brought in their boats for the day and are relaxing in a fishermen's hut by the light of a kerosene lamp. The eldest of them tells them that "there has been so much untruth told about our region" that he wants to set the record straight and tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth. With that said, he begins his first tale.
, 1h29 GenresComedy, Romance ActorsIrina Muravyova, Tatyana Vasilyeva, Aleksandr Abdulov, Leonid Kouravliov, Lyudmila Ivanova, Alexandre Schirwindt Roles Susanna Rating73% Nadya Klyueva, a very nice employee of one research institute, cannot arrange her personal life. She is more than thirty years old, but still unmarried. She occasionally meet in a bus her former schoolmate Susanna. After that Nadya's life begins to change. Susanna is a professional sociologist, and gives Nadya practical advice on how to change her behavior and clothing to ger married successfully. The object of Nadya's courtship is her colleague Volodya, frivolous "Don Juan". But soon Nadya realizes that her happiness and love, that she sought through a variety of tricks and efforts, is just nearby ...