In a remote village in Karelia, Sergeant Vaskov commands an anti-aircraft unit that protects a rail depot. While his men are transferred to the front line, he is reprimanded for their unruly behavior. He retorts that he wants replacements that aren't drunks or womanizers. In response, he is...
Nikolai (played by Sergei Dontsov) has been fired from his job as a music teacher and has to live in the gym until he finds a place to stay. Finally, he gets a communal room in the apartment of Gorokhov (Victor Mikhalkov). The room's previous inhabitant, an old lady, has died a year ago, and yet...
After four years, a young freight forwarder Sizuhin suddenly learns that under the guise of shipments of baby food his firm is involved in drug smuggling. Deciding to understand this case, he begins to fight the mafia and seeks help from a professional thief named "Varyoniy".
Vera Golubeva, a textile worker, lives in a hostel. In her spare time, she arranges the fate of her friends. Although the class is disinterested and informal, Faith comes up to him professionally: working with the press, send out wedding announcements across the Soviet Union carefully selects and...
A kolkhoz machine-operator is a local inventor who has tensions with his wife over his hobby. He invents a useful appendage for a grain harvester combine and an article about his invention is printed in a local paper. Kolkhoz chairman then entrusts him with a mission to get equipment from a nearby...
The movie takes us back to the times of the Civil War, when the young Soviet power was defended by the first heroes of this terrible internecine war. Red commanders Semyon Budyonny and Kliment Voroshilov managed to gather an entire army of "red cavalrymen" - thus began the history of the campaigns...
She loved her sons more than anything in the world and did everything in her power to put them on their feet. Is it possible to understand why she kicked one of them out? Why did he leave, who knows? Because it was a shame, my heart was torn apart or because I was young? Then Sasha was 16. For...
Police captain Aleshin is investigating a case related to the theft of opium at a chemical factory warehouse. Everything suggests that the offender must be sought among the employees of the enterprise. One of the workers, Frolov, is familiar to Alyoshin in another matter. And although Aleshin is...
At the border outpost, discipline and a sense of collectivism are instilled. Major Grebnev and Lieutenant Borodin help the soldier Sedykh overcome his egoism and understand the value of comradeship, leading to his inner transformation.
The front-line friends during the heavy battle swore to each other that the one who would survive would continue the work of the deceased. Mikhail Nesterov remained alive and the main business of his life was the search for a deposit of valuable clay. These searches began his friend before the war,...
After the war, Trofim returned to his native village from Germany with a girl who had lost her memory in a concentration camp. The care and compassion of the villagers helped the girl to return to a full-blooded life.
Saving the soldier, nurse Polina gives her blood, after which both are sent to the hospital. A week later, Fyodor calls Polina his wife and goes to the front. Returning home many months after the Victory, Fedor learns that Polina gave birth to a daughter, lived in his house for a while and left...
After the death of her husband, Tamara gave her daughter Olya to an orphanage and left for the North. There she creates a new family and, years later, calls the matured girl back. Not finding love in her mother's house, Olga left for a Siberian construction site with the plumber Roman. But the...
Volodya, who lives with his mother in the apartment on the outskirts of St. Petersburg, gets a pre-revolutionary book on magic rituals of Africa. Reading it, Vladimir realizes that he became an owner the supernatural gift – he can kill people by his own will.
