Courier / Kuryer / The Messenger (1986)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
The story of a teenager boy in times of the comunism fall in the Soviet Union.
Starring: Fyodor Dunayevsky, Anastasiya Nemolyaeva, Oleg Basilashvili, Inna Churikova, Svetlana Kryuchkova, Aleksandr Pankratov-Chyornyy, Vladimir Menshov
Director: Karen Shakhnazarov
Gorod Zero / City Zero (1989)
Comedy | Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi
Very Kafkaesque and absurdist Russian satire. An engineer arrives at a town to fix their air conditioner, comes up against a wall of beaurocracy and things that don't work and soon finds he cannot leave. Strange things happen, like a nude secretary, and being offered a pastry in the shape of his head by a suicidal chef, and then he somehow gets entangled in a local fight between Soviet traditionalists and people that want rock'n'roll.
Starring: Leonid Filatov, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Evgeniy Evstigneev, Oleg Basilashvili, Vladimir Menshov
Director: Karen Shakhnazarov
Office Romance / Служебный роман (1977)
Comedy | Romance
Anatoly Yefremovich Novoseltsev, a clumsy single father of two sons, works at a statistical bureau. His boss is a strict unmarried woman, Ludmila Prokofievna Kalugina, nicknamed "our frump" by her subordinates. She has some self-confidence problems, hidden behind her gloomy humorless demeanor and plain old-fashioned look. Novoseltsev's colleagues consider him as a smart and experienced worker. He dreams about a promotion and a raise that would help him provide for his children, but he is too timid to talk to his boss about it. His friend, Yuri Grigorievich Samokhvalov, recently appointed assistant manager of the institution, suggests appointing Novoseltsev as a head of the light industry department, but Kalugina rejects it believing that Novoseltsev is not good enough for the position. Then, following Samokhvalov's advice, Novoseltsev unwillingly tries to flirt with "the Frump" at a party in Samokhvalov's apartment in order to "get into contact" with her.
Starring: Andrey Myagkov, Alisa Freyndlikh, Svetlana Nemolyaeva, Oleg Basilashvili, Liya Akhedzhakova
Director: Eldar Ryazanov
