After the revolution, the bourgeois Nedopluev loses his appetite and sleep. Neither medicine nor the regime prescribed by the doctor helps him. He is drafted to the labor front. Putting on a robe over a house robe, he goes to work. Together with other bourgeois, he has to haul manure and load stones.
L. Frank-Nikolskiy
The bourgeois
Lidiya Tridenskaya
The bourgeois's wife
Alexander Werner
The bourgeois's son
Vladimir Gradov
The factory worker
Aleksandr Solovyov
Nikolai Branitskii
After the revolution, the bourgeois Nedopluev loses his appetite and sleep. Neither medicine nor the regime prescribed by the doctor helps him. He is drafted to the labor front. Putting on a robe over a house robe, he goes to work. Together with other bourgeois, he has to haul manure and load stones.
Grigory, born into an oligarch family, is so spoiled that he believes he's above the law. When he faces jail, his father decides to 'rehabilitate' his son. An abandoned village is reconstructed, 19th century style. Grigory 'goes back in time', reincarnated as a serf, to learn how to appreciate life and to work hard.
A day in the life of a comic book artist and his family in Russia. While suffering from the flu, Petrov is carried by his friend Igor on a long walk, drifting in and out of fantasy and reality.
A group of suburban teenagers try to support each other through the difficult task of becoming adults.
Jimmy Dolan is a college basketball coach who wants a big promotion. To get it, he needs to make a dramatic find. He ends up deep in Africa, hoping to recruit Saleh, a huge basketball prodigy Jimmy glimpsed in a home movie. But Saleh is the chief's son and has responsibilities at home, since the tribe's land is threatened by a mining company with its own hotshot basketball team.
Leo and Angela Russo live a simple life in Queens, surrounded by their overbearing Italian-American family. When their son finds success on his high school basketball team, Leo tears the family apart trying to make it happen.
Frank Farrelli takes on the job as a middle man in the God-forsaken town of Karmack, USA, a community in a depression so deep that they need a middle man to professionally communicate more of the bad news.
A Finn preparing a work on the Russian hunting traditions and customs, comes to Russia to collect materials and is invited to take part in a hunting party. His flamboyant companions include an Army general, with more than a passing resemblance to Aleksander Lebed, a police detective, local forest ranger (a devotee of Zen Buddhism) and some big-city types from St. Petersburg. Inevitably, their good intentions soon give way to endless drinking, visits to local farm girls and much else besides.
St. Petersburg, early 20th century. The handsome and secretive Johann specializes in shooting erotic pictures depicting the floggings of bare-bottomed women. With the help of his assistants, the photographic creations gradually penetrate the peaceful households of two upper-class Russian families.