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Chekhovians Motifs is a 2002 Russian-Ukrainian comedy film directed by Kira Muratova. At the 2002 Russian Guild of Film Critics Awards Kira Muratova received the prize for Best Director. It is based on two works of Anton Chekhov: the short story Difficult People and the unfinished short play Tatyana Repina. source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chekhov%27s_Motifs In a large Shiryaev family, the eldest of the children, student Pyotr, is trying to overcome his dependence on a despotic father. The resigned mother tries to protect him, the sister, thirteen-year-old Varvara, is indifferent to family quarrels. Leaving his parental home to go to the city to study, Peter instead ends up in a rural church for the wedding of a visiting bohemian. During a long church service, the guests, consumed by boredom and impatience, are distracted by a strange phenomenon: a woman wrapped in black and groaning appears in the church. Some of the guests, and then the groom himself, take ...

The Tuner is a 2004 Russia/Ukraine co-production feature film directed by Kira Muratova. Its a modern interpretation of the memoirs of the famous Russian detective of tsarist times Arkady Koshko. It premiered at the Venice Film Festival in September 2004. The stars of the film include famous Russian actors such as Alla Demidova, Renata Litvinova, Nina Ruslanova, and Georgi Deliyev. Nika Award 2004 for best actress Alla Demidova, best director Kira Muratova and best Supporting Actress Nina Ruslanova source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tuner A young piano tuner befriends two rich old-ladies, and plots, with the help of his girlfriend, to betray their trust and steal from them source: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0383020/ ***SPOILER ALERT*** F: Hiya Krasnaya! Seems like I have a new favorite black and white comedy! This movie is insanely funny. This is a hidden gem of a movie. We follow the story of a con artist who tunes pianos and befrien...

Three Stories is a Ukrainian-Russian crime comedy movie co-production directed by Kira Muratova. The film premiered on June 3, 1997. It ranks 63rd in the list of the 100 best films in the history of Ukrainian cinema. The film is dedicated to the memory of Sergei Apollinarievich Gerasimov. source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Stories_(1997_film) A man goes to see his former schoolmate working at a boiler house and persuades him to burn in the furnace the corpse of his communal flat neighbor whom he has just murdered after a quarrel. An orphaned girl gets a job in the archives of the maternity home to find out the identity of her mother who abandoned her years earlier. She finds her, befriends her and takes the first opportunity to throw her into the sea. An old intellectual tries to explain to the neighbor's five-year-old daughter "all the abomination of her lumpen existence". The girl feeling hurt for her mother decides to poison the old man ...