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A parody of lawlessness and organized crime, terrorism and murder, violence and sexual assault, adventurous ups and downs.

Having set himself the goal of becoming a DJ, the hero simultaneously searches for the woman whose handbag he found in his hands after their first meeting. In the finale, the dance ensemble, led by the newly minted DJ with a new soloist, "performs" their own musical number to the delight of the provincial audience.

A determined student from Chicago is forced to fulfill the last wish of his ailing grandfather. He has to travel to Odessa, Ukraine, and bring back his grandfather's cat.

...Her son-in-law, Ippolit Matwejewitch Worobjaninow, is a former nobleman and a dandy who is currently wasting away as a small town magistrate in charge of civil marriages. He eagerly takes up the quest to find the treasure. Meanwhile, over the years, the twelve chairs have been dispersed all over the country. However, Worobjaninow is not the only one in pursuit of the treasure. Hot on its trail are Ostap Bender, a clever and colorful conman, as well as Father Fjodor, a priest to whom the wealthy aristocrat has also confessed her secret. Thus begins a wild chase that ranges from North to South, West to East, across water and land, from the country to the city.

Sometimes in the hustle and bustle of our everyday lives we may not see the tragedy that can fall upon our closest ones. This story has actually happened in a regular Ukrainian family. Varya is a young 30 year old successful career woman. Despite her living with her mother in the same apartment, they don't talk much to each other because of Varya's often lengthy business trips. Being in the midst of her everlasting issues, Varya usually doesn't have time to listen to her mom. In Varya's absence, the mother was diagnosed with cancer. And only when Varya sees mom without hair, her life priorities fall in place. Actions speak louder than words. In order to support her dear mother, Varya shaves her head.

A lonely 70-year-old man, an eccentric artist from Odessa, Sir Pinkhus, dreams to have grandchildren. But he even does not have children. Obviously first he needs to have a son to realize a dream about having a grandson. The old man has friends at the orphanage. They choose a guy Arkasha for the role of son. Arkasha is a 50-year old bonehead who recently hit the bricks and worked at the orphanage as a stoker.

A woman is paid a surprise visit by her long-forgotten classmate, who needs her advice: should he choose a wife or a lover? An outrageously burlesque mise-en-scène is repeated many times but each time in a different place and performed by new actors. Why?

The movie examines the lives of the not-so-fortunate dregs of society through absurdist comedy. The unfortunates of the title are mentally challenged people, some of whom could be termed insane - or merely inane.

This celebrated director's "exquisite cruelty" appears front and center when the death of a stage actor turns a theatrical drama into a real one. Two in One's two parts, "Stagehands" and "Woman of a Lifetime," celebrate the psychological richness that lurks just beneath the surface of banal reality - if murderous stagehands, lascivious fathers and vengeful daughters can be described as banal.

Two young orphan siblings travel to Moscow in search of their missing father. Scared of being separated and sent to orphanages, they hope to reunite with the last link of their shattered family.

