A drama set at the end of the Forties and the beginning of the Fifties. In a distant garrison town, life proceeds at a measured past. The officers drink and debauch, while the soldiers serve. Meanwhile accidentally unleashed human emotions are suffocated by the atmosphere of cruelty and hypocrisy.
A young Russian store clerk has a drab existence in times of shortages and is berated by her ailing mother for not seeing men. So she brings home an unknown young man who she met on the tram. She dreams many things but pines for this man.
The Second World War is underway. A gypsy camp ends up in a fascist concentration camp. The camp commandant liked the daughter of the gypsy baron Tsino. Unable to stand the shame, she commits suicide. After the death of his daughter, the baron, who had previously preached non-resistance to evil, decides to take revenge…
Sarah returns with her father and uncle to fix up the family's longtime summerhouse after it was violated by squatters in the off-season. As they work in the dark, Sarah begins to hear sounds from within the walls of the boarded-up building. Although she barely remembers the place, Sarah senses the past may still haunt the home.
Contact between most towns on Earth has been severed. A small ring-like area in Eastern Europe still has electricity, and maybe even life is being reported from space. What military forces find outside the ring is shocking.
Yasha recently retired after serving many years at a factory, with a highlight of his career being a delegate of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1976. Yet his future is left unknown when he emerges in new realities that he finds difficult to accept. The world has changed after the collapse of the Soviet Union, yet he tries to hold on to what once was. Thus enters former Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev. Appearing like Yasha’s alter ego, he guides Yasha, giving amusing commentary and voicing what Yasha should say or do. Brezhnev’s presence gives way for more historical leaders that Yasha idolises to arrive. Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, Josip Broz Tito and Erich Honecker, and even the African dictator Jean Bedel-Bokassa all make an appearance! When Yasha takes an oath of loyalty to them, this creates trouble for his family.
Four colleagues went on a business trip to conclude an important agreement, curry favor with their superiors and earn a promotion, but on the way back everything did not go according to plan - the heroes find themselves without money and connections in a mysterious small town... More and more obstacles arise between them and returning home. What is keeping them there - an unfortunate combination of circumstances or the city itself?
Gypsies steal a large shipment of drugs worth $40,000,000 from the mafia and kill a drug courier. In response, the bandits kidnap the daughter of the gypsy baron Alan, little Rose, and forcibly put her on a needle. Alan's revenge is inevitable and merciless. But will he be able to get to the godfather of the drug syndicate Victor.
Charismatic burglar Maksim gets into trouble after owing money to dangerous bandits. During the next robbery, he witnesses a desperate act committed by the apartment owner Eva, who has unexpectedly returned: she tries to burn everything that reminds her of her traitorous boyfriend, and in addition, commit suicide. Maksim decides to stop Eva and save himself from even bigger problems.
According to the plot, the mayor of the city Nikolay Nikolaevich introduces his new deputy. A major specialist whom he lured from the capital. No one in the administration even suspects that just a week ago Katerina Petrovna was a tequila girl. After a serious conversation with a local authority, the mayor drinks too much and falls into a coma. Now, Katerina is the acting mayor, as that same authority decided. Katerina plans to simply enjoy life in her new status, but everything changes when she meets Sergey, a young doctor who loves his job and his Lisyegorsk. The feelings that have arisen for Sergey motivate Katerina to take a close look at the provincial city and make it at least a little like the capital.
The story of one day - August 12, 2012. The Earl's Court Exhibition Center in London is filled with fans. Millions of viewers around the world are waiting for the start of the broadcast of the final volleyball game among men's teams, which will determine the winner of the XXX Olympic Games. The Russian team that has never won gold. And the Brazilian national team, caressed by contracts, victories and loyal fans. Many people think that the outcome of the game is predetermined. But few people yet know what place this final occupies in the life of each of the Russian athletes.
A Russian criminal steals a giant diamond from the Mafia, hides it, and suddenly runs into his unknown brothers; unexpected, absurd events with participation of the mob, doctors, musicians, Americans, militia, and gypsies ensue.