Mavka, a water nymph, loves Lukash, a country youth. Their brief happiness ends when Lukash is forced to marry the shrewish Kilina. The Spirit of the Forest turns Lukash into a wolf as punishment for his infidelity. The strength of Mavka's love breaks the spell, but Kilina curses the nymph,...
Tatyana lives in France. She is young, beautiful, rich. Life in the mansion is like an advertising video. But behind this facade lies unhappiness and pain. Her husband has long since grown cold towards her, has become a stranger and cruel. And they can't get a divorce: lawyers will make sure that...
Musicologist Alla Arsenyeva arrives in Tadjikistan on a mission. Her goal is to find a unique white grand piano, known to be made in France in the nineteenth century. Rumours say it was last seen in the republic’s capital Dushanbe. The local authorities, however, are uncooperative and do whatever...
Based on the unfinished play by Maxim Gorky "Yakov Bogomolov" about human dignity, that the main stimulus of life is creative work for the benefit of people. Engineer Yakov Bogomolov is a "workaholic" man. He gives himself all to his work, is carried away by it so much that he does not notice what...
Alla and Igor decide to get married. It is the second marriage for both of them. Resentment towards her ex-husband, who is busy with science and indifferent to everyday problems, has embittered Alla. She is sure that he and his parents want to take away her child. In her anger she does not notice...
The story about actors who will never agree to betray their theatre even if they will have to burn themselves. And other instructions how to behave if a whiskered man breaks into your house and wants you to leave it.
The king married an intelligent and beautiful peasant girl, but he was not very smart himself, and his wife's superiority offended him. He sent his wife away, however, allowing her to take with her what she holds most dear. She gave the king a sleeping drink, and when he fell asleep, she took him...
The action takes place in the 1920s. It is about the everyday work of criminal investigation staff in a provincial town, who are engaged in an unyielding battle against a well-organized gang of murderers and robbers.
