艾利克斯（康斯坦丁·拉朗尼柯 Konstantin Lavronenko 饰）和妻子薇拉（玛利亚·邦妮薇 Maria Bonnevie 饰）带着孩子们来到了位于乡间的老家度假，这里闲适的生活和优美的风景安抚了一家人疲惫的心灵。
正当艾利克斯沉浸在宁静的情绪中时，薇拉告诉丈夫自己怀孕的消息，让艾利克斯震惊的是，薇拉坦陈，腹中孩子并不是艾利克斯的骨肉。在巨大的打击之下，艾利克斯找到了兄弟马克（亚历山大·巴鲁耶夫 Aleksandr Baluev 饰），向他倾吐胸中的愤懑，在两人的商讨之中，艾利克斯决定让妻子堕胎。不幸的是，薇拉死在了手术台上，艾利克斯的世界崩溃了，他的悲伤和愤怒化为了仇恨，他发誓要找到妻子的情人，让他也尝一尝和自己一样的滋味。

Gloomy postmodernism from the student of Tarkovski. I was really stressed by this film. It is very awesome and absurd story set in Kaliningrad. One can see a lot of ruined castles and 18-19th century German buildings here. You can also see the grave of Immanuil Kant and a lot of screened freaks. Atmospheric and cold suspense with some gore and psychotropic visions. Very nasty and hypnotic trip into the flashbacks of Perestroika and the USSR. This film has much influence from European post modernism and deals a lot with mental pain and its visions. I would recommend this film for those people who explores the dark side of experimental cinema. Quite obscure visionary and a lot of classical music.
Rich imagery and political allegory enliven an already complex story in this late Soviet-era mystery/drama. In the story, a government investigator has come to town to look into the validity of bribery charges that were brought against an official there. In the meantime, we discover that a twin and his brother have been engaged in a kind of very close warfare. One twin was a medical doctor, and was married to a beautiful woman. The second twin was interested in bedding the wife, and had no feeling for his brother. Thus, he impersonated him in the hospital, and openly engaged in medical malpractice of the grossest sort, resulting in a patient's death. The first twin lost his career and was forced to support himself by going door to door selling kerosene. The second (and clearly sociopathic) twin, naturally, became an important figure in the activities of his local soviet.

偏僻的俄罗斯驻防军区，两列火车相撞爆炸。随即发生了一场匪夷所思的核爆炸，俄罗斯境内造成重大伤亡。美国白宫反核走私情报部门的朱莉亚·凯利（妮可·基德曼 Nicole Kidman饰）博士怀疑这起核意外并非偶然发生的事故。为了追查这起爆炸的始末，查明背后的真相，朱莉亚与陆军特种部队的少尉托马斯·威尔（乔治·克鲁尼 George Clooney饰）受命展开调查。他们在艰苦的调查中，竟发现了一个惊天大阴谋。一名冒充政客的核恐怖分子已携带核弹头进入美国本土，欲炸毁设在纽约的联合国总部。
女导演咪咪·莱德的电影处女作《末日戒备》，根据资深调查记者安德鲁·科伯恩和莱斯利·科伯恩的文章改编而成，其中素材源于科伯恩夫妇收集的解密情报和真实新闻事件。