Movies: Beata Makowskaya

The year 1829. Nikolay Gogol, a young Third Section clerk, is desperate: his own books seem shallow and mediocre, so he keeps buying entire print runs just to burn them all. He is suffering from violent epileptic seizures and struggles to keep on wor...

From his childhood in Russia to his last days in California, the tumultuous ininerary and bathed in melancholy of the legendary pianist and composer Serguei Rachmaninov. This film is based on the legend that Rachmaninoff received a bouquet of lilacs ...

Maya, a gynecologist from Moscow, trains the staff at a hospital in a small settlement in the Northern Caucasus. She notices barbaric performances of female circumcision carried out behind her back....