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MILGRAM’S LESSON

a film about the Honoured Teacher of the Russian Federation, Honoured Citizen of Moscow Leonid Isidorovich Milgram.

«I belong not only to a certain generation, but to a certain group of this generation. I have survived quite a lot of things and I think that I have a right to say «we», not «I», we have passed this most difficult psychological and physical exam, and we passed it with honour».
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SHELL

«Shell» is a colloquial name of a sectional metal car garage. They were widely spread in Russia after 1991. The advantages of «shells» include low price and a possibility to install them near one’s place of living. The disadvantages are plain appearance and large size. More than one third of shells are used for wrong purposes. Pensioners Karasevs had lived in a shell for 79 days and hardly escaped death. What was going on in the centre of Moscow at the end of 2006?
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METRO:00

A film is made by using an amateur’s camera in the Moscow metro. The advantages of modern digital technology let one reduce the distance between the camera objective and the reality. The film was made with no main characters, budget, film tape, and all these conventionalities which are inherent to the «big» cinema.
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APRIL MAN

Anton was born in April 1985. His mother wanted to leave the boy in hospital, and he does not know his father. A blind grandmother has brought him up. Now Anton is finishing his studies at the Conservatory of Saint-Petersburg and is writing music.
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THE NIGHT WHICH LASTED 641 DAYS

Great Patriotic War. Occupied Kharkov. Water pipe lines and a power station are blown up; bridges, houses and factories are destroyed. German authorities have imposed a curfew. Death by shooting for any disobedience. No food reserves. One million population of the town suffers from hunger and is doomed to death. Elena Chernay with two sons, four-year old Oleg and newborn Valera, fight for their lives…
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