Based on the play of the same name by Leonid Leonov. The famous singer Ladygin, who has won success and fame, lives in a spacious apartment furnished with paintings and luxury goods. Suddenly, an old front-line friend, a prominent scientist Svekolkin, comes to Ladygin. Realizing that for Ladygin,...
The cruel laws of the zone, whose inhabitants are divided into hierarchical clans, dictate their own conditions of behavior. The head of the institution, Major Kalinin, sees prisoners not so much as criminals, but as people who have stumbled in life, and tries to give everyone a chance to improve....
The third film of the film trilogy ("Personally known", "Emergency assignment", "Kamo's Last Feat") about the Bolshevik revolutionary S.A.Ter-Petrosyan, known as Kamo (1882-1922).
The main characters are two graduates of a music school, gifted violinists. Andrei is ambitious, able-bodied, absorbed in the desire to achieve recognition. The other is Ladya Bragin, simple and reckless. On the day of the exam at the conservatory, he meets a girl who works as a clown, and...
Spring of 1917. Soldiers of the former Wild Division are returning to their villages. Anzor, a footman of Prince Naurbek, commander of the Kabarda regiment, finds poverty and ruin at home - his mother and many other villagers have fallen into bondage debts to Princess Zhansurat. Anzor goes to the...
Old village doctor Ruben Azaryan is going to operate a sick child, although he feels bad. Perhaps this is the last operation in his life. He remembers his youth, the institute, the student Maro in love with him, the war, the front and the first love - nurse Svetlana, who died during a raid on their...
1943 year. On the instructions of the military newspaper, the photojournalist Varvara Knyazhich goes to the front line to take some pictures of the knocked-down powerful German tank "Tiger". In a combat situation, she has to face a difficult relationship between officers and subordinates. During...
The Red Army soldier Maksud returns with a detachment of the Red Army to his native village. Maksud sees that nothing has changed in the village — just like in the old days, the bai are rampaging, oppressing the people: bek Rahmankul ordered the hanging of two dehkans who plowed the land that the...
Zoo inspector Chaplygin, concerned about the death of walruses due to panic caused by airplane flights, destroys the only navigational sign and the flights stop. Having failed to understand each other on the spot, the pilot and the zoo inspector go to Moscow - and will settle their dispute in the...
On the eve of the New Year, a Belgian plane carrying a group of Antarctic researchers crashes in the area of the Pearl Mountains. Only the Soviet expedition responds to their call for help. For several days, Soviet pilots, despite the weather conditions and risking their own lives, set out in...
A young poet at a social ball invited a beautiful stranger to dance and received a challenge to a duel from a jealous husband. The duel took place, but the bullet flying to the poet's heart stuck into a gold coin that ended up in his jacket pocket. The inspired poet wrote a number of short stories...
About the romantic youth of the legendary commander, hero of the Civil War G.I.Kotovsky (1881-1925). An inexperienced fighter against landlord arbitrariness becomes a professional revolutionary under the influence of revolutionary events in Russia.
