Eisenstein gets in trouble for shooting a grouse. He is told that he must go to prison for his crime. However, his friend has invited him to an aristocratic ball. Eisenstein, despite being married, wants to go to the ball to meet women. Eisenstein lies to his wife. He tells her that he is going to...
A music student is expelled from school because he loves jazz, a kind of music that represents the US capitalism. He hires two street musicians to form a dixie band, and goes from one city to another trying to gain fame.
Valentin and Valentina love each other and want to marry. But their mothers are strongly against this marriage. So strong is their hate that they can use any possible means.
Arkady Dolgoruky is the illegitimate son of a nobleman. Throughout his childhood he was brought up by strangers, his peers often teased him, and he grew up impressionable and vulnerable. As a young man of twenty, Arkady moves to St. Petersburg and joins the old prince as his secretary.
A successful young journalist goes to a small industrial city in order to understand the written complaints of a certain girl. When he met the author of the letters and the girl whom she had slandered, he didn't immediately understand the complexity of the situation and the measure of...
A former front-line soldier, who worked at his post for a quarter of a century, local commissioner Lieutenant Semyon Mitrofanovich Kovalev, going to the department in the morning, was most sad that tomorrow he would no longer have to go to service: tomorrow he would be retired. But the last day of...
Faith Vans, an employee of one of the departments of the US State Department, receives a summons to the commission to investigate un-American activities, and her prosperous, calm life begins to collapse. But Faith doesn't give up, and she fights for her rights.
A certain Chumakov addressed the People's Judge Kavelin. He brought a statement of claim to his son, Sergey Gribanov, in which he demands care, love and alimony from him. Chumakov, who left his family when the boy was two years old, is now afraid to be alone, because Sergei's stepfather has become...
The crew of the new American strategic missile submarine "Archelon" is struck by an unknown virus. The command must decide on removing the submarine from combat duty and sending the crew to quarantine.
The young man Nikolos is forced to engage in the fishing of sea sponges in order to get the hand of the beautiful Lenio. This work makes him a cripple, and marriage to his beloved does not bring happiness.
The events take place in the 1980s and tell about the relationship between three generations in the family of a retired general, whose grandson, having failed to enter the institute, is drafted into the army. The service on the border does not disappoint him, and the young man decides to continue...
