Short Stories (2012)

6.1/10 105 min Comedy Drama Mystery

Overview

A young writer brings a collection of short stories to a big Moscow publishing house. The manuscript stays at the office and mysteriously influences the lives of anyone who opens it and reads at least one page. There are four stories in the manuscript, and four readers whose lives are changed after reading them. The situations range from realistic to absurd to thrilling to create a rich portrait of life in contemporary Russia and showcase the thoughts, feelings and ambitions of people who live there.

Cast

Andrey Merzlikin

Event Planner

Igor Ugolnikov

President

Tamara Mironova

Anna Petrovna

Konstantin Yushkevich

Maks

Lyubov Aksyonova

Girl

Daria Nosik

Olya

Sergey Fetisov

Governor

Elena Nesterova

Irina

Vasily Michkov

Aleksey

Sergey Yefremov

mayor's deputy

Maksim Gromov

adventurer

Anatoliy Golub

officer

Viktor Manaev

principal

Denis Baranovsky

governor's guard

Viktor Molchan

mayor

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