An alien spaceship, following an accident in space, enters the earth atmosphere and being damaged by Russian fighter jets, crash lands in a populated area of Moscow taking a few hundred human lives in the crash. A school girl saves the life of one of the aliens and together must deal with humans who intend them harm.
A couple going through a divorce must team up to find their son who has disappeared during one of their bitter arguments.
This is the second part of a documentary trilogy that charts the fascinating and complex history of the Jewish community in Russia throughout the centuries. Created and presented by leading Russian journalist Leonid Parfyonov, Russian Jews focuses on both the good and bad times, shedding new light on Jewish contribution to the country and its culture. The second film focuses on the 30-year period between 1918-1948, during which Jews took active part in Russian society, helping shape the country's political and cultural spheres. Among the Jewish leaders whose lives and careers are explored in the film are Leon Trotsky, Marc Chagall, Sergey Eisenstein, classical musicians Matvei Blanter and Isaak Dunaevsky and Isaak Babel, all important contributors to the great Soviet project.
In Russia in October 1917 the Bolsheviks could rule only in coalition with left socialist revolutionaries who's charismatic leader Maria Spiridonova was the equal of Lenin. Till April 1918 they maintained a fragile alliance but by June an uprising was inevitable and the outcome uncertain.
Spiridonova maps those few months as tension grows and the divide between Leninism and a more libertarian socialism becomes starker......and fixed in history. Spiridonova is awash with assassins, plotters, anarchists, bomb throwers and vast rallies...
A woman lives in a small village in Russia. One day she receives the parcel she sent to her husband, serving a sentence in prison. Confused and angered, she sets out to find why her package was returned to sender.