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- By means of archival footage, this mockumentary "reconstructs" how the Russians secretly realised the first manned flight to the moon as early as the 1930s.
- The man decides to die, but falls asleep at the last moment. He dreams that he died and ended up on another planet, very similar to the Earth, but the people living here do not know sin.
- "Stars never leave their orbits". The poor astronomy teacher got one more demonstration of this law when he met HER. SHE was "from the another world". SHE was strange and inappropriate in his tiny calm town. Town with slough-like life and citizens who spent all their time gossiping. Once he almost started to believe that the miracle is possible... but "the stars never leave their orbits".
- Two casual acquaintances, Sergey Pshenichnyy and Andrey Nemchinov, are transferred almost 40 years ago by the will of mysterious circumstances. This day - May 8, 1949 - begins to repeat itself for them with inexorable constancy.
- Seven-year-old Valentinka was left an orphan. Her father went to the front and disappeared without a trace. Mother and brother died under the bombing. During the evacuation, the girl fell behind the train, spent the night in a haystack, where she was found completely frozen by a village woman, Darya. And although she had three children of her own, Darya left the girl in her house.
- Canadian sailor John McLennan, who was wrecked off the coast of Chukotka, is being rescued by local residents. From that moment, he begins a new life, which he is no longer able to change.
- It was during the fortress order. The orphan Ustya lived, the late father worked with malachite and it was said that he had a secret hole, a grassy shelter.
- A regular military call-up. Young guys, having got call-up papers and having passed a medical board checkup, enjoy themselves and spend the last days of freedom in different ways: some in discotheques, some in a company of friends outdoors, others are even carousing and scuffling. A colonel Nikitin (Yu. Nazarov) with a group of officers is ordered to accompany conscripts future marines - in a special train to the military service place, situated in the Far East. The whole trip takes several days. Right here, in the train wagons, with no dads and moms round, young conscripts are in for showing their worth and gaining their first experience of real army life.
- A young heir of a big fortune Sergey Privalov is coming back to his native town after a long absence. Having visited his owned plants, he breaks out with the idea to rebuild the industrial processes, improve the life of workers, and build schools and hospitals. Though, his interests collide with the interests of local big wigs, to whom the existing situation suits perfectly
- Summer 1947. The World War II has just died down. Unexpectedly and incognito a stranger shows up in a small village in Transcarpathia, situated near the very frontier. For some purpose he gets into a well in an oldmans Atanas yard, and when Atanas comes out, it turns out that he is not a stranger, he is Bogdan Susik (Ye.Vesnik), a former butler of a local count. He tries to understand why a former butler got into a well, and reveals a terrible secret to Atanas, on the honor to keep silence and assist him in everything. The fact is that when in 1944 the counter escaped overseas, Susik helped him to hide a chest. He is sure that the counters riches were hidden inside of the chest, and that the map with the chest location was put in the well. Now they have to find it
- The tale about a magic fish that too literally understands the wishes of lazy fool.
- A life-affirming comedy about a stand-up comedian Lena. She has stories to tell - Lena is 49, she has two children, two ex-husbands, a mother-in-law, three loans and a dog. Her friends say that she needs botox and a man, and Lena wants to be greeted with laughter and applause.
- A young guy Ilya meets a witch in the forest named Grandma Sinyushka. Sinyushka sees in Ilya an open, brave man and gives him wealth and family happiness.
- Vladmir Bobylev goes on leave for his 60th anniversary. He takes his wife and son and heads for his native town Kholmy, where he stops with his family at his battle comrade, who suggests a trip to their battle places. The old man agrees almost without hesitation, for after the war hes never been there. They get acquainted with German tourists, and it turns out that one of them also fought here as an officer in the Army of fascist general Paulus
- A merchant sends his son on a long journey along the Gloomy River. He will meet a lot on the way - a test of gold and power, a serious illness and insane passion.
- After a story of Yuri Nagibin Need grey hair. Having arrived to Leningrad on official business, an engineer Sergei Ivanovich Gushchin gets acquainted with a young actress Natasha. She offers to show him Leningrad, but Gushin knows this city quite well he served here during the War. They seek for a cause for further dates, but he keeps on finding excuses not to date a woman who is much younger and whom he fell in love with. In the end Natasha will realize that she loves him too but Gushchin will leave, never deciding to cast in his lot with her.
- Afghanistan. 1986. A column of soviet military armour heads from the frontier for Kabul, along a mountain road. It is shielded from air by military helicopters. The way of a column lies through the only bridge in the neighbourhood. Afghan militants are well informed about it, and, led by an American instructor, they prepare a trap. At the moment a Soviet geological expedition, located in mountains, is exposed to a night attack of dushmans (transl. from Afghanian enemy). The Afghan column disperses and geologists decide to go to Kabul. On their way they get information about an approaching soviet column, which would make their trip to Kabul much safer. But they dont know that they are already a part of the operation on the bridge.
- A peaceful poet going mad possessing a gun.
- Summer, 1944. A military airbase near the very front-line. A young soviet pilot Sergey makes his first practice flight. In the course of this flight he hears a call for help on the radio from Russian pilots, having an unequal air combat with superior forces of the enemy. Sergey rushes to their rescue. His plane gets shut down, and he is taken prisoner. Soon he is taken to a special flight school, where future German aces are prepared and Russian pilots at the wheel of captured Russian aircrafts are used as living targets. Nobody wants to put up with such situation, and they prepare an escape.
- Hot summer, 1941. A small railway station near the front line. A group of criminals (a made man and a repressed general among them), are entrained in a carriage of a special military train. A young KGB lieutenant guards the convicts. Hardly the train covers a couple of kilometers, it is subjected to a German army assault, and the landing operation starts. After a short fight only 3 persons survive: young lieutenant, made man and political criminal. They head for the forest farther from the crashed train and pursuing Germans. The criminals, seemingly, can consider themselves as free, though, the lieutenant has another point of view and is intended to bring them to the destination place.
- What would you do if in broad daylight a real talking cat showed up to you, and even with a striped cap on his head? But the twins Sally and Konrad, who were left alone at home, were not at a loss and were not even afraid.
- Hockey club star Maxim Kovalev, the son of the deceased billionaire and team owner, is not used to holding back his emotions. Neither at a hockey match, nor when a traffic cop slows him down on the way to an important game and wants to arrange everything "according to the rules". A simple conflict turns into a fatal situation for him, which radically changes his life. He has a deadline. Will Max be able to survive? Will the star-studded hockey player be able to improve? And who will help him in this? After all, a truck driver, an employee of the investigative committee, traffic cops, motorists, stuck in a snow cataclysm, were on the road together.
- The 22nd of June, 1941. A usual morning in a usual children camp near the very frontier. Children are splashing in a river, and take the landing troops, coming down from the sky, with enthusiasm, thinking that this is a military training. But these are fascists. They drive all children together in a camp, fence them in a barblock and announce that all of them will soon be sent to Germany. The Soviet tank battalion, located nearby, makes an attempt to save the children, but is defeated. Only one tank driven by uncle Vasia (M.Chigarev) survived. Accidentally the survived tankman meets Michael, a boy who was ordered by Germans to burn pioneer neckties. He asks uncle Vasia to help him rescue children from captivity. The tankman agrees. The rescue of young pioneers operation starts on the only one tank with one little assistant.
- The Great Russian scientist, famous politician and poet M.Lomonosov is severely ill. Understanding that there is not much time left for him to live, he decides to visit his beloved small native town. Taking a coach, he heads for the motherland of his ancestors. A shaky road raises thoughts and reminiscences about his days of youth, about the time when he was young and unknown, how he made first steps on his long way of the truth comprehension. He recollects early death and funeral of his mother, the repeated, and not very successful marriage of his father, hatred of stepmother, care of godfather, who gave him the books of Peter the Great, wandering monk, who taught him the fundamentals of science, Latin, and, of course, his first love.
- An adaptation of the 1915 operetta Die Csárdásfürstin (also known as Silva ) composed by Emmerich Kalman. Silva Varescu gives a farewell performance in front of the emerging tours in America.
- In 1944, Colonel Saveliev, an engineer, returned to his Moscow apartment, whose wife and children died during the war. Academician Vorontsov and his daughter Olya, whose lover died in a shootout, temporarily live in his apartment. Olya falls in love with Saveliev.
- An employee of the Museum of Musical Instruments Serafima Glukina falls in love with a hockey player experiencing life's problems.
- Fyodor (B.Nevzorov) hasnt been in home land for 10 years. After leaving for Moscow for education, he stayed there for living. And now he persuaded his two colleagues to pass the vacation in his motherland, at his brothers house in a small Siberian village. Because what can be better than rest close to nature, hunting in taiga and fishing. But already on a plane he finds out that the girl, master of shooting sports and one the mens bride, joins their male company. As soon as vacationists reach the location, they get the news about an armed attack on a bus, which transported geologists salary. This attack resulted in a woman-cashiers death, whom Feudor used to know well. The guys decide to head for taiga and catch bandits, but they still dont know that soon the bandits will kidnap the wife of Fyodors brother and a newly arrived girl.
- The lot of a 27-year old boxer Gennady Kedrov turns to be not very happy. In spite of his glorious victories and battles, he is no longer invited to serious competitions. Trainers consider him to be lacking in prospects, saying that he is a bit old, overweighed and his character is not as simple he is too straightforward and cocky. Another problem is to earn his living. He doesnt want to work on plant, leaves Institute, and makes both ends meet by making casual work as loader, grave-digger, waste paper receiving clerk, and when his friend offers him to ferry a car he gets into real trouble.
- A nine-former Nadias mother gets married, leaving her daughter alone. Her mothers act arouses in her soul a poignant offence. During the vacation, instead of going to parents she heads for the south. Her mother and stepfather are searching for Nadia on the resort and are trying to persuade to stay with them, but it is not as simple to convince her that they really need her
- Anton Nikolaevich Skvortsov (O.Yefremov) is a strong and resolute person, for all his life he has been heading a big labor collective, and now he is retired, he interred his wife half a year ago, beared infarction, and now is living in his big flat with a daughter, her husband and a grown-up granddaughter. His attending doctor recommended his daughter to send him to the veterans house, in order that he could live with coevals, surrounded by congenial people and not feel so lonely. Not being able to stand all this, Anton Nikolaevich runs away from his house and goes on a sightseeing tour about Moscow. On the excursion bus he gets acquainted with Anna Konstantinovna (I.Savvina), whos retired on pension. This meeting turnes his life upside-down.
- The story about the water taxi driver and his fellow travelers.
- A middle-aged woman Ksenia (N. Yegorova) has a usual regular life: routine work in typography, home without husband, whom she has long divorced, 17-year old daughter with teenage problems, a friend, trying to give her in marriage. In short, nothing special. Though sometimes she sings in a local chorus for the good of her soul. But once a head of municipal folklore consort drops in, and they get into conversation, and he invites her to the run-through. She comes, tries her forces with the others, but for some reason she is not let to the concerts She gets acquainted with a nimble administrator, who gathers a concert group and proposes to go on tour. She agrees and changes her life dramatically.
- Eccentric comedy about young soldier Mitya Agafonov, who carries out requirements precisely according to military regulations.
- A life of a driver Stephan Chekmenev turns out to be very lucky: healthy children, loving wife, solid loghouse. But once his fellow-villager perishes in a forest. And Chekmenev, considering himself to be the one to blame, in expectation of an imminent retribution, tries to understand: why and when did he, once having so many friends, become so indifferent towards other peoples lives