Sergei Gazarov Movies

A family is confronted with an unexpected and troubling new arrival in this emotional drama from Russia. Yulik Krymov (Leonid Yarmolnik) is a scientist and author who shares his home with his wife Rita (Yelena Yakovleva) and their two children, Anya (Marianna Ilyina) and Igor (Artyom Shalimov). Their domestic calm is shattered one day when Yulik discovers he has a third child he never knew about -- Pavel (Daniil Spivakovsky), the product of a long-forgotten one-night stand 20 years ago. Pavel has recently arrived home after suffering severe injuries as a Russian soldier fighting in Chechnya; his mother can no longer care for him, and has decided it is Yulik's turn to mind his son. Physically scarred and emotionally ravaged, Pavel is hardly a comforting presence, and Igor makes no secret of his fear and distrust of the new arrival, but his younger sister, Anya, has a kinder heart and befriends the shattered soul. To Rita, however, Pavel is a reminder of Yulik's decades-old infidelity, and his presence drives a wedge between her and her husband. Meanwhile, Pavel's need for expensive surgery, his powerful delusions that Chechnyan soldiers are hiding in the attic, and his insistence that his best friend will be coming to visit soon add up to far more than the family is able to deal with. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

The hectic, materialistic lives of Russian nouveau riche provide the framework for this Russian thriller. The two protagonists, Ivan and Misha are two rubes who came to Moscow to participate in the perestroika economic boom. They are definitely limitas, Russian for hicks. Ivan becomes a wealthy computer code-breaker. The story really begins when he is given a disk to decode. It is an incredibly difficult code to break. Just as he is breaking it, he discovers that the code was set by Misha who is a technical specialist for a bank. Wanting to protect his friend he stops the decoding program. Because Misha is the only one with the disk key, Ivan's action accidently causes him to be killed. Ivan seeks revenge but when he discovers that the information on the disk has involved him he becomes bitter and cynical. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

This provocative Russian drama provides a disturbing examination of the post revolutionary values and philosophies of the country as a poet must decide which has more importance: his poetry, or his gun? The film's title has a double meaning. Makarov is the protagonist's name, but is it is also the name of a powerful Russian handgun. Makarov, the main character, is a poet suffering from writer's block. On his way home one night he encounters a black market arms dealer who asks if he'd like to buy a Makarov. The poet pays all of the money he received from his latest poetry volume, 10,000 rubles for the gun. He must now conceal the gun from his family. At home his wife reads him a poem about a bullet. Makarov hides the gun. Throughout the film, other characters continue to recite poems about guns, and this causes Makarov to look deeply at his values. Eventually the gun wins. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

This unusual film explores the small dramas experienced by a group of people who have been stranded in Copenhagen overnight because of a cancelled flight. The all ride in an airport bus to lodgings in town, and the stories of each person or group of persons are told from the moment they leave the bus to the moment they get back on it the next morning. Extraordinary things happen to all of them, and yet, to see them on the bus the next morning, you would imagine nothing at all had happened. Strandees include a rock singer from Russia chaperoned by his English-speaking daughter; he is on his way to an engagement at, of all things, a Russian pizza house in New York. Another strandee is an airline stewardess, and then there are the two brothers who have reunited for the first time after many years. As the movie goes on, their stories overlap in humorous ways. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

In this thriller, "Greek" (Valery Garkalin) has a pretty pleasant life, running excursion boats with his partner and doing a little professional gambling on the side. Things take a sinister turn when his partner is killed after a big (and inexplicable) loss in a card game. Greek suspects the worst, and vows to track down the cheat and his partner's killer (he expects they are the same person). The outward pleasantness of Russians at play swifly becomes sinister, as more and more people come under Greek's suspicious eye. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide