The film begins on New Year’s Eve with the preps for the anniversary of a local deputy. Amid the celebration, a rep of the prosecutor’s office comes to the jubilee and hands him a summons. Together with neighbors, relatives, and his beautiful wife, who all felt that the affairs of the local king are now weak, the dishonest regional official finds himself in a whirlpool of events.
Eleven comedic vignettes featuring conversations – some important, some less so – held in restaurants over coffee and cigarettes (how quickly time flies – cigarettes are banned in Russia’s restaurants now). The conversations are candid, and even veer into the territory of murder. In the final credits, the director apologizes to Jim Jarmusch, whose work (in the anthology Coffee and Cigarettes, which Jarmusch shot in pieces over many years) Oldenburg-Svintsov is clearly indebted to. Sex, Coffee, Cigarettes’s kinship with Jarmusch’s film extends to the fact that superstars play tiny roles in almost all of the vignettes.
The protagonist of the film is a very famous boxer in the past, now he works as an ordinary security guard in a jewelry store and is deeply in love with an employee of this store, whose name is Katerina. But once his beloved woman was undeservedly insulted, and the former boxer, like a true knight and man, intercedes for his beautiful lady and quarrels with very influential people of the city.
Valentina, Anastasia, Polina and Rita are women from four different generations. Each of them solves their life problems in their own way, seeks love, builds a career, struggles with disappointments and learns to be happy despite the difficulties they have to overcome. They are united by friendship, work and problems that are close to any woman.
GRU intelligence lieutenant colonel Ilya Orlov, nicknamed "Monk", interrupted his military career after 15 years of service and... went to a monastery. However, he soon realized that non-resistance to evil was not for him and returned to worldly life, taking a job as a taxi driver.
A Russian detective series, based on 8 works of Andrei Konstantinov ("lawyer", "Justice / Attorney-2", "The Thief / Journalist-2", "Writer", "Inventor / Writer-2", "The prisoner "," Cop "," Scavenger ") and four works by other writers.
In 1987 he graduated from the Moscow Art Theater School-Studio (workshop of V. Bogomolov). He played on the stages of the Moscow Art Theater named after Gorky (1987-1989), the Studio Theater on Spartakovskaya Square (1991). In 1993-1994 - actor of the Roman Viktyuk Theater. In 1994-1995 he played in the entreprise "Engagement". In 1996-2004 - actor of the theater named after A.S. Pushkin. Since 2004, he has been an actor of the Moon Theater under the direction of S. Prokhanov. He began acting in films since 1983.
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