A shell-shocked Afghanistan war hero named Ivan Skryabin (Mikhail Skryabin) spends his days stoking the fire in a giant coal furnace. When he isn’t...

The end of the 19th century. A tiny colony of lepers in the isolated Yakut taiga. A healthy girl, brought there by chance, falls in love with one of...

While returning to Leningrad from a visit to his brother, Professor Artyom's car breaks down and he finds assistance at an isolated farmhouse...

A lonely man imprisoned in prison sculpts human figures out of clay and imagines himself to be their merciful god

An almanac of short feature films based on stories by Mikhail Mishin from the collection of short stories "Pause in a Major".