Ordinary Matter
Обыкновенное дело
In the late 1930s, Yuldashev, a journalist, came to one of the sanatoriums in Uzbekistan. He wants to write an article about a warrior hero. But everyone he talks to refers him to someone else, someone more worthy.
Обыкновенное дело
In the late 1930s, Yuldashev, a journalist, came to one of the sanatoriums in Uzbekistan. He wants to write an article about a warrior hero. But everyone he talks to refers him to someone else, someone more worthy.
Rated 6.5 on TMDB
South America, 1960. A lonely and grumpy Holocaust survivor convinces himself that his new neighbor is none other than Adolf Hitler. Not being taken seriously, he starts an independent investigation to prove his claim, but when the evidence still appears to be inconclusive, Polsky is forced to engage in a relationship with the enemy in order to obtain irrefutable proof.
Rated 7.7 on TMDB
A young man with a bright future suffers a near-fatal accident and recreates his new life with the help of an unlikely animal friend.
Rated 7.0 on TMDB
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
Rated 5.8 on TMDB
The action takes place shortly after the end of the Second World War in the Siberian hinterland, among Russians and Germans with damaged personal stories and a strange transformation: the victors seem to be crawling into the skins of the defeated, and vice versa. Ignat, is the embodiment of the larger-than-life image of the Soviet victorious warrior who, in fact, proves to be shell-shocked, sick and broken, although not completely destroyed. Trains become fetish for the heroes of the film, and speed becomes a mania; they virtually become one with their steam engines, while the machines take on human names. The heroes set up an almost fatal race in the Siberian forest, risking their own lives and those of others.
Rated 6.2 on TMDB
The protagonist Vlad is a man of about forty; he lives and works as watchman in an old sanatorium that is due to be demolished. He obviously needs this work to live the life of a hermit. One night a married couple appears at the sanatorium: Vera and Stas. They are on the run. They are pursued by former friends and business partners of Stas. Vlad decides to help them, because he too is hiding from the past. Each character is threatened with the inevitable payment for wrong choices in the past, but helping each other, they try to expiate these faults.
Rated 5.9 on TMDB
A retired boxer intends to return to the ring for one last shot at the title, but first he must make the weight. Holed up in a room in Las Vegas with an unscrupulous trainer, he embarks on an intensive and illegal weight-cutting program.
