Olga Konskaya

Chekhovian Motifs

The film is based on A. P. Chekhov’s play “Tatiana Repina” and short story “Difficult People”. At his wedding, the groom is horrified to see among the church crowd his former mistress who had recently committed suicide.

Risk Group

It's 1988. Welder Sladkov and his wife, Tamara, return home after a five-year assignment in Africa. They have no children, but Tamara's sister's son lives somewhere in an orphanage. Children with sensory deprivation are at risk. The challenge is finding his son, and the situation unfolds even more unexpectedly.

Theatre Season

The love story of journalist and actor. They are connected by a great mutual feeling, but he has a wife and a son. Realizing that she is his only true love, he still does not dare to leave his family.

No Foreign Land

Bringing Up Cruelty in Women and Dogs

A single woman's and her dog's personalities are affected by tough life circumstances.

Love and Other Nightmares

Alex is creating a databank of dreams, claming he knows how to digitise the dreamimage. It is just a self publicity ploy and Alex is soon woken up to the reality of underprivilege, corruption and state terror by an ex-convict Lubov, with whom Alex has an unlikely love affair.

The Last Days of the Last Tsar

A mixture of re-enactment, news reel footage, archival film and rare documents, including the diaries and intimate correspondence of Nicholas & Alexandra. Recreates the atmosphere at the time of their deportation to Siberia, life in exile, and brutal execution.

Russian Lessons

Russian Lessons sees its two filmmaker-protagonists, Olga Konskaya and Andrei Nekrasov, report from different posts on the frontline of the 2008 Russian-Georgian war.