Based on the play of the same name by Leonid Zorin. Gordei Kabachkov, a professional con man, decided to pursue a career in science and was very successful. Having settled in a certain Institute of Ancient Culture, he easily wraps his finger around the numerous "kind men" - members of the academic...
Based on the operetta of the same name by Isaak Dunayevsky. The port town of one of the small southern countries. After the Nazi occupiers left, the port's berths were empty, the steamers did not smoke, cargo cranes stood. Fearing retaliation for collaborating with enemies, port owner Georg Stan...
Major timber merchant Yegor Bulychyov is terminally ill. In his house, he is surrounded by insignificant and greedy people, impatiently waiting for his death. Clever and insightful Yegor understands that he lived his whole life with strangers. He protests in his own way against the dissimulation...
The action takes place on the estate of a major, where his friends, inveterate bachelors, and the sisters of the major, who came to marry him with his niece, meet. But the niece has long loved Lieutenant Edmund, and then a plan matures to persuade the major to marry, at the last moment, replacing...
Cartoon about how a brother and sister, not wanting to learn, make a wish that everyone they talk to forget about their duties. The magician from the firm "Miracle" fulfils their wish: mom does not go to work, the policeman does not punish violators, the driver does not observe traffic rules, the...
Timosh, a young village boy, finds himself in the ministry of Father Mikhail, a priest who hides in a convent with him after a scandal with the Count. There Timosh encounters the mundane mores of the monastery, where the abbess and sisters are steeped in greed, duplicity and intrigue, despite their...
A young literature teacher does not like his job. He feels he has to change something in his life. And one day he decides to tell only the truth. This decision leads to a breakup with his fiancée, a series of misunderstandings at school.
The events take place in Russia in 1917. A former peasant, and now a soldier, Ivan Shadrin, was sent by fellow soldiers from the German front to revolutionary Petrograd to hand Lenin a letter with questions from his comrades.
Chauffeur Movilyanu is arrested at his own wedding, accused of running over a man — all the evidence points to his guilt. However, during the investigation, police colonel Chekan uncovers that the driver was framed, and the real criminals are still at large...
This episode of the TV almanac dramatized fragments of A. Tolstoy's science fiction novel "Aelita", the stories of Kir Bulychev "The Snow Maiden" and Eric Frank Russell's "I Testify".
Young Venka investigates the cause of death of a fellow villager during the Great Patriotic War - in the process uncovering a traitor who has been murdering witnesses to his own inglorious past.
Peer Gynt grew up a handsome guy, girls peered at him, and he dreamed of becoming a king and getting rich. He went to the wedding and there he saw the girl Solveig. Peer got drunk, quarreled with the guests and went into the mountains, where he met a troll maiden. Peer wanted to marry her and...