Lucky Days

A differently-abled prodigy musician battles cultural limitations, gender discrimination and disability discrimination to risk the odds and flee her oppressive home to follow her music gifts.

Inzeyen'-Malina is the feature film about modern Russia, human relations, and the discrepancy of the Russian soul. It is a treatise on emptiness with elements of absurdity. There are few dialogues, but it is full of humor and light grief. Eight independent short stories are connected by one character: Alexey Pankratov, Head of Cultural Department of Inza district. It is the drama of a talented young man who aspires to be pulled from the world of a surrounding reality. He tries to fill his ordinary provincial life with spiritual events. Alexey is an admirer of Marc Chagall and even tries to paint like him. He is a close friend of well-known naive painter Katya Medvedeva, played by herself. She tells Alexey: "Just close your eyes, Lesha, and repeat this magic word: IN-ZE-YEN'..." He closes his eyes and hears a peal in that magic darkness. Each hero of all 8 film novellas helps to discover an interesting deep personality of Alexey. This film is for your every sense.

Louis is 50 years old, but he is very afraid of aging, so he finds a "miraculous" way to slow it down.

A young prison guard, Josef Vildomec (Jirí Hrzán), returns home from the night shift to his widowed mother (Vera Tichánková), who is very proud of him. Her deceased husband was a gendarme and the son recently found a similar job. Every night before bedtime, Josef walks with his dog to an abandoned place and there severely beats the animal. To the prisoners, however, he behaves kindly and even gives some cigarettes to prisoner Cervinka (Karel Mares), who is in close confinement without food. The old thief and recidivist makes the naive Vildomec believe in his innocence and Vildomec begins to advocate him to his own cost.