Katarsis

Poland's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1992

A feature film based on the short story "Fabijonas" by R. Šavelis.

Kazakhstan. 1954. Copper mines. Concentration camp. In the center of the plot - a revolt which prisoners raised in protest against the inhuman treatment.

Patients of the resuscitator Mikhailov are people who tried to commit suicide. Veronika, a young journalist and sociologist, often visits the hospital where the hero works. Natasha, Mikhailov's wife, guesses that her husband is in love with another woman. She is jealous and increasingly feels her loneliness.

Based on the novel by Prosper Merime "Mateo Falcone".

The hero of the film, a thirty-year-old young man, returns to his hometown and discovers that he is becoming a participant in some kind of intrigue, the logic that should lead him to clash with Dima, the head of one of the local criminal gangs, Mikhail cannot avoid fighting, because the mystery of his beloved's death is connected with this name...

Viktor and Volodya own shares in the same company. Victor has a happy family, wife, children, and Volodya has never taken place in his personal life and, besides, he has always been in love with Victor's wife, Alina. Taking advantage of the fact that Victor borrowed a huge amount of money, he corners him and threatens him, and then orders the brutal murder of his partner. Soon, the inconsolable Alina finds a terrible film of her husband's execution and prepares for revenge...

He has an instant reaction and an accurate eye, strong muscles and a cold mind. His friends call him simply Ellie, and the "fathers of the city" are behind him, as if behind a stone wall. However, he is not the master of his fate either...

The film is based on the story by L. Andreev "The Life of Vasily of Thebes" about the fate of the village priest Vasily, who, after going through a great many misfortunes, renounces God in order to regain his true faith through even greater grief.

In an old castle, the residence of a criminal authority, turned into a torture chamber for «knocking out» money from intractable businessmen, a representative from Moscow is waiting. The purpose of his visit is to pave the way for the territorial redistribution of zones of influence of bandit groups.

Returning to his native village, a demobilized paratrooper learns that his brother has become a victim of a drug mafia. He decides to avenge his death and goes to the city...

The events of the film take place in the 50s in one of the most beautiful cities in the world -blessed Bukhara. This is a story about street poets living in abandoned cemeteries, in mosques, on the roofs of houses.

A criminal drama set in the Soviet Union. Director of a Children's Theatre is sentenced to a prison term after a false accusation. He is spending his time locked up with a gang of teenagers

The husband of a terminally ill Claudia falls in love with a neighbor, Marisha, who helps him with the housework in the absence of his wife. And a year and a half later, Claudia returns from the hospital.

Police captain Adil Akhtanov, nicknamed the Tick, is suspected of murder — these are the evidence and testimony of the defendant in the next case, which was led by the captain. Nevertheless, Akhtanov's immediate boss instructs him to conduct an unofficial investigation into the death of traffic police officers. Tick takes up a new case — and very soon passes sentence to his boss, the head of the mafia...

During the second world war two friends work at a remote railway station in the steppes. When one dies the other's request to bury him according to Islamic rituals in a sacred place is denied by the Soviet authorities, who use that place for rocket testing.

Story of a small Kazakh community in the 1930s terrorized by a Red Army soldier whose task it is to force them to collectivize and to eliminate “kulaks.”

The daughter of the hero of the film urgently needs the help of a qualified doctor. He has the cherished address in his hands. The one to whom he is already rushing across the city recognizes him immediately. But now she's an obstetrician—gynecologist, and she's going to have a hard night.

Several intertwined stories that occur in Mexico City

The tragic story of the life of the Dehkan Iskander and his family, engaged in the cultivation of silkworms.