Mars (2004)

Somewhere deep, deep in Russia there is a town called Marks (named after Karl Marks, founder of Communism theory) where all people are working on toy factory and receiving their wages as toys. News from other cities are arriving on very rare occasion. One morning, Boris, a former boxing who is running from something, wakes up in train and see four letters MAR_S. From his first steps he starts to meet new people as Gregori, young man with a dream who is in love with local librarian, Greta, whose dream is to get out from this god-forgotten town. With each new step, he is meeting new people, but the past is hard to escape

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Top billed cast

Nana KiknadzeGreta
Artur SmolyaninovGrigori
Evgeniya DobrovolskayaGalka
Elena MorozovaVera
Yana EsipovitchGirl with plait
Gosha KutsenkoBoris Nikitin (as Gosha Kutsenko)
Aleksandra SkachkovaLyudmila (as Aleksandra Berezovets-Skachkova)
Nadezhda KamenkovitchNadya (as Nadya Kamenkovich)
Aleksandr Ilin
Gali Abaydulov

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