Nello spettrale paesaggio siberiano, un giovane uomo condivide lo squallido appartamento con il padre. A seguito della morte di quest'ultimo, costretto per alcuni giorni a tenere la salma in casa, ha l'opportunità di fare considerazioni sulla vita, la morte e la condizione umana. Alla fine riuscirà ad affrontare le difficoltà per dare al genitore una degna sepoltura.

Un giovane dottore intraprende un viaggio di lavoro in una città disabitata dell’Asia Centrale, dove forze misteriose ostacolano la sua ricera: caldo insopportabile, bizzarre personalità, visioni spaventose, una conversazione con un amico morto, apparizioni di alieni. Tratto da un romanzo degli scrittori di fantascienza sovietici Arkadi e Boris Strugacki.

A rich woman accidently comes across a conversation on the phone about people talking about a murder.

The action in this lavishly produced film takes place at an oddly ark-shaped mansion during World War I, and in spirit (although not in story) it reflects the play which inspired it, the ferociously antiwar Heartbreak House by George Bernard Shaw. A large group of family and friends have gathered at this country house to dance, drink, and converse. Their conversation, in particular, is adorned with erudite literary references and quotations. Despite their apparent refinement, their preoccupations are simple: sex and violence. Disquieting images break the tranquility of the vacationers' inappropriate idyll: some of these include documentary footage of starving African children, images (both real and re-enacted) of George Bernard Shaw going about his daily life, and a corpse coming to life on an autopsy table, only to cheapen that miracle by scolding a group of women. The music used in the film ironically points to its disturbing message and is uniformly anachronistic.

Set in the early 1920s after the end of the Russian Civil War, Red Army soldier Nikita returns to his hometown to see his partner Lyuba, both of whom are scarred by the trauma of the Russian Empire of yesteryear.

In this dreamlike film, a nameless father and his son, Aleksei, live together in an apartment in St. Petersburg. Aleksei's mother has died and consequently the two have a very close relationship. When Aleksei acquires a girlfriend, she refuses to take a back seat to his bond with his dad, and breaks up with him. Aleksei is also experiencing nightmares, dreading separation from his father to be a part of the military as his father was.

Il professor Hyakken Uchida (Tatsuo Matsumura) nel 1943 decide di abbandonare l'insegnamento per dedicarsi alla carriera di scrittore. La storia è scandita dalle feste di compleanno con cui gli ex allievi celebrano il professore dal 1943 ai primi anni '70 domandandogli ogni volta se sia pronto ad andarsene. Il professore risponde sempre: "Madadayo!" (Non ancora!).