Swept up in political unrest during World War I, two sisters in St. Petersburg cope with turbulent romances as Russian history is made around them.

In May 1940, on the outskirts of Mexico City, a detachment of Mexican Communists dressed as policemen attack the house of the former leader of the Russian revolution, Leon Trotsky. By an ...

The year 1829. Nikolay Gogol, a young Third Section clerk, is desperate: his own books seem shallow and mediocre, so he keeps buying entire print runs just to burn them all. He is suffering...

As four Russian friends grow up in the early 1960's, life, love and the curse of success threaten to derail their dreams.

Simultaneously nihilistic and heartening, Ward No. 6 is based on a story by Chekov, in which a psychiatric doctor becomes a patient in his own asylum. Updated to contemporary Russia, the ...

The resurrection of Gogol brings hope to people. Then a deadly revenge begins.

A serial killer murdered eleven women around a village, rumors spread that the killer is a dark horseman. Gogol is ordered to investigate the murder cases and he starts to suffer macabre visions more and more during his investigation.

The Greek pirate who turned businessman, Ioannis Varvakis, made his fortune selling caviar in Russia and all over the world. Varvakis strives all his life for freedom for himself and then for his country.