The drama of a former noblewoman who became the wife of an NKVD officer in the 1930s, and the almost anecdotal story of how a spirited stallion was prepared for Marshal Budyonny's parade and, in the end, a reliable mare was "slipped in" instead. The realities of life at the top of the State Security Service are shown, their ordinary and "sweet" life with its joys, intrigues, betrayals, and tragedies. Russia is like a whirlpool that sucks in and destroys.

The Only Living Boy in New York
2017
6.3/10

Fidelity
2019
6.6/10

Effie Gray
2014
6.0/10

Burnt by the Sun
1994
6.9/10

The Brothers Karamazov
1958
6.5/10

Tchaikovsky's Wife
2022
6.1/10

Addicted
2014
5.9/10

The Killing
1956
7.6/10

Salomé
2013
6.1/10

Les Misérables
2012
7.3/10

Heatwave
2022
6.2/10

Deep Water
2022
5.8/10

Ivan the Terrible, Part I
1944
7.3/10

Flights in Dreams and in Reality
1983
6.5/10

Adulterers
2016
6.2/10

Blue Jasmine
2013
7.0/10

Too Big to Fail
2011
6.9/10

Leviathan
2014
7.4/10

Max
2002
6.2/10

Dovlatov
2018
5.9/10
The Russia House
1990
6.07/10