Movies: Boris Knizhenko

For several months now, in a residential area of the city, residents of a house have been waking up at 5am to the sound of a rooster crowing on Viktor and Anna's balcony. At breakfast, the wife gives her husband an ultimatum: he must remove the roost...

This is a story about the Ukrainian Cinderella. Since childhood, Vera "Verka" Serduchka dreams of becoming a famous artist. To fulfill her dream, the girl, after finishing school, goes to the capital, where her adventures begin......

The first Soviet sexologist is sent to the gulag and is haunted by stories of fellow inmates. They provide unforgettable vignettes of Soviet sexual brutality, from the utopian ideals of the 1920s, to gay life in the 1930s, the rape of women by those ...