Short Stories

Name: Short Stories
Director: Mikhail Segal
Released: 2012
Duration: 105 min
Rating: 6.9
Cast: Andrey Merzlikin, Darya Nosik, Andrey Petrov, Igor Ugolnikov, Sergey Fetisov

2012 · 105 MIN · IMDB 6.9 · 1,995 VOTES · DIR. Mikhail Segal

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.

Dialogue Timeline — 878 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:31 Hi!

00:06:21 Excuse me...!

00:10:15 Here's to health and prosperity To you and your posterity!

00:13:36 The groom's mother has the traditional wedding loaf.

00:16:43 We'll rehearse it at home.

00:19:24 Time to light the family hearth!

00:22:58 Cried before, during and after my cappuccino.

00:25:45 Meet Lena - and, by coincidence, another Lena.

00:29:27 Hello!

00:34:02 Shit, pardon me, I'll clean it up.

00:38:19 Know. There are so many corrupt people to pay off.

00:46:47 Have a cold, so don't want to risk it.

00:51:07 What if someone is feeling bad or suffering? Then, when it ends

00:54:00 but continues working as if nothing happened?

01:01:44 Get back in the car, sir, there's a storm coming.

01:07:18 A man appears. With footsteps few He stoops above her, and his face

01:16:39 "A ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME"

01:21:37 Why are you looking so happy today?

01:24:58 Can you forget that the sky is blue? That birds can ?y?

01:28:30 Trotsky. mean, you with the ice-pick...

01:31:30 - Who sings that song? - Sorry?

01:35:22 The Civil War!

01:39:24 - Do you have any idea of the country you're living in? - The Russian Federation.

425:00:00 in all wars between WWI

Cast & Characters

Andrey Merzlikin Event Planner Darya Nosik Olga Andrey Petrov Mitya Igor Ugolnikov President Sergey Fetisov Governor Vasiliy Michkov Tamara Mironova Anna Petrovna Roman Dervoed Lieutenant Konstantin Yushkevich Maks Lyubov Aksyonova Girl

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed878

Dialogue density8.4 lines / min

First line00:00:31

Final line425:00:00

Production Record

DirectorMikhail Segal

LanguageRussian

Revenue$809,738

IMDb votes1,995