Fast train N34 went exactly on schedule. The passengers were quietly getting ready for bed when the empty compartment from the outstanding cigarette lit up the curtain. Soon the wagon caught fire. Disaster is imminent. Railwaymen and passengers are working together to prevent misfortune and save...
A train travels through the vastness of Russia, a train with German prisoners of war returning home, and Viktor Kleist, a young German communist from an intellectual home in Munich, travels back home with them. During the journey, the stations on his way to Lenin wake up again.
Three demobilized "Afghans" arrive in one of the cities of Central Asia. And already at the airport, a fight begins between them and the local neo-fascist organization, rampaging through the city with impunity...
In early 20th-century Azerbaijan, two circus artists travel to a village where one of them was born, unaware of the danger and adventure that await them.
A young singer from Buryat-Mongolian collective farm is sent to Moscow to study. Despite his strong voice, he fails a music exam. After the police station he becomes a soloist in a choir and a police sergeant, while studying music reading and dreaming of a conservatory.
The name of Alexander Rosenbaum, inseparably linked with Leningrad–Petersburg, is among the most renowned in Russia. His persona has become a symbol of our great, tragic, and transformative era. Poet and singer Alexander Rosenbaum is a true child of Leningrad. To him, Leningrad is, above all, the...
A kind of film mosaic, composed of 13 separate short stories. All together they tell about one day in the life of people who are next to us in a large port city.
The main criminal authority - Antibiotic, seemingly a virtuoso and elusive genius of the underworld, invulnerable to a bullet, knife and authorities, sooner or later retribution must overtake. Journalist Seregin, acting at his own peril and risk, breaks the unsteady balance between the gangs and...
Based on an excerpt from the novel by L.N.Tolstoy "War and Peace." The war of 1812. The defeated Napoleonic army is retreating. Three Russian soldiers settled in a snowy forest near a fire: a young (Zaletayev), an elderly and a middle-aged one. Zaletayev fantasizes — as if he had captured...
The film tells about the inhabitants of the Russian city of Tsaritsyn-Stalingrad-Volgograd. The film consists of three novellas, united by the theme of love and the scene - a city on the Volga.
America’s Wild West of the last third of the 19th century. Thousands of people rushed here in pursuit of enrichment. Among them was Gabriel Conroy, a man absolutely helpless in the world of business. When fountains of oil started gushing on his plot of land, the local moneybags Peter Damphy...
A story about the boy Ivanko forced on an adventure to rescue his mother and all the villagers held captive by the evil King, who on his side has a wicked witch.
The group of immigrants who depart to the United States, by chance finds itself in a deserted forest. Cut off from the civilized world, they begin to build their "own America".
