Valentin Nikulin

The Master is a talented writer in Moscow working on a manuscript about Jesus and Pontius Pilate. The Moscow authorities are harassing Master by surveillance and intimidation. His assistant and muse, Margarita, tries to help the Master through the supernatural powers she got from the devil, Woland, who is visiting Moscow.

About the vicissitudes of love, about the fact that the images of loved ones that arise in our imagination often do not coincide with the real ones.

Young girl Nina is falling in love with the orthodox priest with a criminal past.

The director's story about his life in the Soviet Union before his departure to Israel in 1971. The movie interweaves chronicle-documentary footage and fragments of Mikhail Kalik's films.

A young nurse, Nastya, on the eve of her successful marriage to the man she loves, a prosperous doctor, has doubts dictated by her desire to assert herself.

Journalist arrives in Odessa and falls into the hands of scammers who skillfully rob him. The situations are sometimes comical and sometimes absurd, but such is life...

A young Jewish woman, having received an order from the occupation authorities to report to the assembly point, goes into town with her son. They approach the ghetto, but realizing what awaits them, they leave. They wander around the city, not daring to visit their friends. Night falls. Huddled together, mother and son fall asleep on a bench. And in the morning, soldiers indifferently throw their frozen bodies into the back of a truck.

Based on materials from real criminal cases, it follows the trial of the trade mafia.

The actions of this mystery movie takes both in the past (in medieval times, as the scientists' hallucinations) and in the days of Perestroika.

An intelligent businessman from former engineers realizes that he is unlikely to be able to "turn around" in his homeland, and decides to emigrate. But for his beloved wife the question "to go or not to go?" is not so rhetorical. That's why the journey to the Sheremetyevo airport turns out to be unexpectedly long and difficult for both spouses...