The chairman of the Rassvet collective farm, Foma Lukash, lived honestly and fairly. But when his heart began to catch, Lukash went to the hospital. Meanwhile, his deputy began to establish new orders on the collective farm. For example, the working day was moved to a later time. Many people liked it, because it wasn’t war. But Foma, upon leaving the hospital, did not accept the new changes - and demanded early re-election of the chairman...
At the beginning of "perestroyka", city authorities are getting ready for another event in keeping with the spirit of stagnant times. A director with a rather "unyielding" character is assigned to make a film about the birth of the one millionth inhabitant. However, when he finds the heroine of his story, there is no much "positive" to show as this family hardly suits for advertising happy life...
On a summer day in late 19th century Russia, a group of bourgeois friends and acquaintances gather at a dilapidated country estate.
Story of 38-years-old Rita whose fiance didn't show up at their wedding.
Day after day, routine, exhausting work, empty counters, worries, husband, mother-in-law, construction. It seems that there is another, better life somewhere.
A rookie detective is investigating a young girl death
The hero of the film Scrubs – a war veteran who works in a school for troubled teens. On the day of release from the special school his favorite pupil Viktor waited in vain for his mother – she did not come for her son, and went out to meet the swimming man, Vitya's stepfather. Then the teacher took home Vitya – Aleksey Ivanovich. But when Viktor saw the house merry company, his resentment prevailed, and the stubborn kid runs away from the bush, and the caretaker does not do anything but go in search of the fugitive
A resident of Magadan, Ukladova, was robbed in a Moscow alley. She claims that she was hit on the head with a hammer and robbed of a large amount of money by a taxi driver. The investigator finds a taxi driver who has already been imprisoned for hooliganism. All the facts are against the suspect, but he does not confess. People who knew him convince him that the guy is not capable of such a crime. Ukladova, however, recognizes the taxi driver in a confrontation.
German intelligence is sending a terrorist group to the Soviet Union in the beginning of WWII.
The story about a very small god-forgotten village in Siberia reflects the history of Russia from the beginning of the century till the early 1980s. Three generations try to find the land of happiness and to give it to the people. One builds the road through taiga to the star over horizon, the second 'build communism' and the third searches for oil.
A police detective is trying to find a murderer who uses a new recently developed drug for his crimes.
The younger of two sisters living together suddenly meets the love of her life...
Grusha's (Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina) husband has left her and she is now a single parent to her adolescent son Vitya (Vladimir Naumenko). Her brother Nikolay (Mikhail Ulyanov) is determined to hook her up with his friend Vladimir (the film's co-director Stanislav Lyubshin). For Grusha and Vladimir to have privacy to build up their relationship, Nikolay decides his nephew Vitya needs to stay out of the way, so he urges Vitya to come live with his family for a while. However, Grusha's not so sure about the arrangement. Based on a play by Vasiliy Shukshin.
During the Russian Civil War, the production of a silent melodrama runs into numerous complications.
A young Russian gymnast is forced to return to the life of an ordinary teenage girl after an injury prevents her from competing.
Based on science fiction stories about the relationship between man and robot: A. Belyaev’s “Open Sesame” about how a robot servant robbed two old men; A. Azimova's "Liar" about a robot who can read minds and turns out to be the most humane among people; F. Chilander's "Court" about how robots tried the last person living in the city.
Air Force Colonel and former astronaut Greg Darwin is visited by his old friend, Johnny. After talking, Greg reveals to Johnny a secret from his past. While serving in space intelligence, Darwin, along with another astronaut, Dick, was sent on a secret mission to a planet that had suffered a devastating nuclear war. On orders from the command, Greg and Dick were to find the remaining weapons on a depopulated planet, the analogues of which did not yet exist on Earth...
Two families are trying to fix their problems during the celebration of the New Year.
The main characters of the film is a company of students who have recently entered college. They just managed to taste the adult free life away from their parents. Now the world has acquired new colors, and everyday life has become more saturated - filled with entertainment and interesting activities. A stern physical education teacher in a technical school puts a “fail” to the whole group. The reason is simple - truancy. But adolescents cannot stand any morality from the lesson the man taught them and decide to teach him a lesson.
The Dirty Shame is the only bar in the small town of Paradise, Michigan. A burnt out, chain-smoking fortyish bar maid is the only waitress at The Dirty Shame. A group of local red necks conspiring to bring a mail order bride to their Midwest town for their ne'er-do-well leader set the story in motion.
The film is set in the 1920s. Shura Sevastyanov is an aspiring journalist in a small newspaper, with two-classes of a parochial school behind him. In the spirit of building communism, he is an ardent fighter against philistinism in all its forms. He denies the phenomenon of love, believing that it does not exist and that there is only friendship and sexual desire of man to woman.
A film anthology featuring three stories: 1) “The Capron Christmas Tree” - Two men and a city dandy, courting a village girl, return home on New Year’s Eve, with the dandy’s nylon Christmas tree gift offending the men. 2) “A Ticket for the Second Showing” - Timofey, an elderly village swindler, regrets his life and prays to Saint Nicholas for a second chance. 3) “The Version” - A rural braggart recounts his city adventure with a restaurant manager, challenging disbelievers to join him on a repeat trip.
In this three-part series, Nikolai Irteniev reminisces and reflects on his life; he is eager to find answers to the most important questions of life. "How to be? how to do the right thing? What goals to strive for?" Based on Lev Tolstoy's autobiographical trilogy.
The experienced collective farm chairman, Berest, is replaced by a young specialist, economist Bocharova, who strives to reorganize the farm's operations.