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- By means of archival footage, this mockumentary "reconstructs" how the Russians secretly realised the first manned flight to the moon as early as the 1930s.
- "Stars never leave their orbits". The poor astronomy teacher got one more demonstration of this law when he met HER. SHE was "from the another world". SHE was strange and inappropriate in his tiny calm town. Town with slough-like life and citizens who spent all their time gossiping. Once he almost started to believe that the miracle is possible... but "the stars never leave their orbits".
- Seven-year-old Valentinka was left an orphan. Her father went to the front and disappeared without a trace. Mother and brother died under the bombing. During the evacuation, the girl fell behind the train, spent the night in a haystack, where she was found completely frozen by a village woman, Darya. And although she had three children of her own, Darya left the girl in her house.
- The man decides to die, but falls asleep at the last moment. He dreams that he died and ended up on another planet, very similar to the Earth, but the people living here do not know sin.
- Two casual acquaintances, Sergey Pshenichnyy and Andrey Nemchinov, are transferred almost 40 years ago by the will of mysterious circumstances. This day - May 8, 1949 - begins to repeat itself for them with inexorable constancy.
- A life-affirming comedy about a stand-up comedian Lena. She has stories to tell - Lena is 49, she has two children, two ex-husbands, a mother-in-law, three loans and a dog. Her friends say that she needs botox and a man, and Lena wants to be greeted with laughter and applause.
- Hot summer, 1941. A small railway station near the front line. A group of criminals (a made man and a repressed general among them), are entrained in a carriage of a special military train. A young KGB lieutenant guards the convicts. Hardly the train covers a couple of kilometers, it is subjected to a German army assault, and the landing operation starts. After a short fight only 3 persons survive: young lieutenant, made man and political criminal. They head for the forest farther from the crashed train and pursuing Germans. The criminals, seemingly, can consider themselves as free, though, the lieutenant has another point of view and is intended to bring them to the destination place.
- Afghanistan. 1986. A column of soviet military armour heads from the frontier for Kabul, along a mountain road. It is shielded from air by military helicopters. The way of a column lies through the only bridge in the neighbourhood. Afghan militants are well informed about it, and, led by an American instructor, they prepare a trap. At the moment a Soviet geological expedition, located in mountains, is exposed to a night attack of dushmans (transl. from Afghanian enemy). The Afghan column disperses and geologists decide to go to Kabul. On their way they get information about an approaching soviet column, which would make their trip to Kabul much safer. But they dont know that they are already a part of the operation on the bridge.
- A peaceful poet going mad possessing a gun.
- The tale about a magic fish that too literally understands the wishes of lazy fool.
- A merchant sends his son on a long journey along the Gloomy River. He will meet a lot on the way - a test of gold and power, a serious illness and insane passion.
- An adaptation of the 1915 operetta Die Csárdásfürstin (also known as Silva ) composed by Emmerich Kalman. Silva Varescu gives a farewell performance in front of the emerging tours in America.
- A regular military call-up. Young guys, having got call-up papers and having passed a medical board checkup, enjoy themselves and spend the last days of freedom in different ways: some in discotheques, some in a company of friends outdoors, others are even carousing and scuffling. A colonel Nikitin (Yu. Nazarov) with a group of officers is ordered to accompany conscripts future marines - in a special train to the military service place, situated in the Far East. The whole trip takes several days. Right here, in the train wagons, with no dads and moms round, young conscripts are in for showing their worth and gaining their first experience of real army life.
- Summer, 1944. A military airbase near the very front-line. A young soviet pilot Sergey makes his first practice flight. In the course of this flight he hears a call for help on the radio from Russian pilots, having an unequal air combat with superior forces of the enemy. Sergey rushes to their rescue. His plane gets shut down, and he is taken prisoner. Soon he is taken to a special flight school, where future German aces are prepared and Russian pilots at the wheel of captured Russian aircrafts are used as living targets. Nobody wants to put up with such situation, and they prepare an escape.
- Documentary and dramatization of Tarkovsky's time in Siberia hunting for diamonds with a secret scientific expedition, which led to his desire to become a filmmaker. Includes an adaptation of his unpublished film script "The Concentrate".
- A veteran of the Great Patriotic War, Apollon Golub, arrives in town in an old car. The car attracts the attention of teenager Valerka Elkin, which has grown into a real friendship between him, the veteran and, of course, the car.
- The kind elk does not know how to refuse, and his antlers turn into a home for forest dwellers.
- What would you do if in broad daylight a real talking cat showed up to you, and even with a striped cap on his head? But the twins Sally and Konrad, who were left alone at home, were not at a loss and were not even afraid.
- The Great Russian scientist, famous politician and poet M.Lomonosov is severely ill. Understanding that there is not much time left for him to live, he decides to visit his beloved small native town. Taking a coach, he heads for the motherland of his ancestors. A shaky road raises thoughts and reminiscences about his days of youth, about the time when he was young and unknown, how he made first steps on his long way of the truth comprehension. He recollects early death and funeral of his mother, the repeated, and not very successful marriage of his father, hatred of stepmother, care of godfather, who gave him the books of Peter the Great, wandering monk, who taught him the fundamentals of science, Latin, and, of course, his first love.
- In 1944, Colonel Saveliev, an engineer, returned to his Moscow apartment, whose wife and children died during the war. Academician Vorontsov and his daughter Olya, whose lover died in a shootout, temporarily live in his apartment. Olya falls in love with Saveliev.
- An employee of the Museum of Musical Instruments Serafima Glukina falls in love with a hockey player experiencing life's problems.
- The 22nd of June, 1941. A usual morning in a usual children camp near the very frontier. Children are splashing in a river, and take the landing troops, coming down from the sky, with enthusiasm, thinking that this is a military training. But these are fascists. They drive all children together in a camp, fence them in a barblock and announce that all of them will soon be sent to Germany. The Soviet tank battalion, located nearby, makes an attempt to save the children, but is defeated. Only one tank driven by uncle Vasia (M.Chigarev) survived. Accidentally the survived tankman meets Michael, a boy who was ordered by Germans to burn pioneer neckties. He asks uncle Vasia to help him rescue children from captivity. The tankman agrees. The rescue of young pioneers operation starts on the only one tank with one little assistant.
- Summer 1947. The World War II has just died down. Unexpectedly and incognito a stranger shows up in a small village in Transcarpathia, situated near the very frontier. For some purpose he gets into a well in an oldmans Atanas yard, and when Atanas comes out, it turns out that he is not a stranger, he is Bogdan Susik (Ye.Vesnik), a former butler of a local count. He tries to understand why a former butler got into a well, and reveals a terrible secret to Atanas, on the honor to keep silence and assist him in everything. The fact is that when in 1944 the counter escaped overseas, Susik helped him to hide a chest. He is sure that the counters riches were hidden inside of the chest, and that the map with the chest location was put in the well. Now they have to find it
- The lot of a 27-year old boxer Gennady Kedrov turns to be not very happy. In spite of his glorious victories and battles, he is no longer invited to serious competitions. Trainers consider him to be lacking in prospects, saying that he is a bit old, overweighed and his character is not as simple he is too straightforward and cocky. Another problem is to earn his living. He doesnt want to work on plant, leaves Institute, and makes both ends meet by making casual work as loader, grave-digger, waste paper receiving clerk, and when his friend offers him to ferry a car he gets into real trouble.
- Anton Nikolaevich Skvortsov (O.Yefremov) is a strong and resolute person, for all his life he has been heading a big labor collective, and now he is retired, he interred his wife half a year ago, beared infarction, and now is living in his big flat with a daughter, her husband and a grown-up granddaughter. His attending doctor recommended his daughter to send him to the veterans house, in order that he could live with coevals, surrounded by congenial people and not feel so lonely. Not being able to stand all this, Anton Nikolaevich runs away from his house and goes on a sightseeing tour about Moscow. On the excursion bus he gets acquainted with Anna Konstantinovna (I.Savvina), whos retired on pension. This meeting turnes his life upside-down.
- The story about the water taxi driver and his fellow travelers.
- A middle-aged woman Ksenia (N. Yegorova) has a usual regular life: routine work in typography, home without husband, whom she has long divorced, 17-year old daughter with teenage problems, a friend, trying to give her in marriage. In short, nothing special. Though sometimes she sings in a local chorus for the good of her soul. But once a head of municipal folklore consort drops in, and they get into conversation, and he invites her to the run-through. She comes, tries her forces with the others, but for some reason she is not let to the concerts She gets acquainted with a nimble administrator, who gathers a concert group and proposes to go on tour. She agrees and changes her life dramatically.
- The main character of the film, Masha, decides to work as a pioneer leader in a pioneer camp. Her energy and spontaneity quickly helps her to find a common language with the children, but the camp managers doesn't like it
- How kind beaver neighbors punished a greedy gnome.
- Late USSR. A retired military officer Vladimir returns to his hometown after a 15-year absence. The city has changed a lot: now the local mafia is in charge, but Vladimir is the only one who is not going to put up with this.
- Spring, 1943. A military train is heading from a city, just liberated from the fascists. A special carriage with divisional printing-works is hitched to the train. Manager of the printing-works and correspondent expects he will travel alone, and even makes a prudent sign on the door - mines. But gradually the carriage starts to get filled with uninvited fellow travelers. The first were an injured soldier with a girl, then - a pregnant woman with escort, two communist party members, an actress, aunt Pasha, and others. The correspondent has nothing but to put up with it, because he cant turn out people, who suffer from the war, each in his/her own way.
- Fyodor (B.Nevzorov) hasnt been in home land for 10 years. After leaving for Moscow for education, he stayed there for living. And now he persuaded his two colleagues to pass the vacation in his motherland, at his brothers house in a small Siberian village. Because what can be better than rest close to nature, hunting in taiga and fishing. But already on a plane he finds out that the girl, master of shooting sports and one the mens bride, joins their male company. As soon as vacationists reach the location, they get the news about an armed attack on a bus, which transported geologists salary. This attack resulted in a woman-cashiers death, whom Feudor used to know well. The guys decide to head for taiga and catch bandits, but they still dont know that soon the bandits will kidnap the wife of Fyodors brother and a newly arrived girl.
- A cartoon about a girl Vera and her friend monkey Anfisa.
- A mountain Daghestani village of our time. Though the civilization reached these places, but traditions and customs consolidated their grip on local folks minds. An old respectable mountain-dweller, a well-educated person in looks, the Palace of Culture director, a father of the young girl, who if ready for marriage, is no exception. According to the old custom a womans parents have to find a well-off groom and get bride-money. And they have an appropriate groom a respected mechanical engineer from a canning plant. But the girl destroys all their harmonious plans, falling in love with a simple driver.
- Young Lida, one of the big institutions workers, rendered a business service to an employee of a sponsored company. Now Gennady invites a girl to a trip by car, which he built himself.
- Secret testing of a new aqualung, elaborated by a soviet scientist Eugenie Ivanovich Sretensky is held on one of the Northern fleet naval vessels, not far from the frontier. The testing area is closely protected by frontier guard. Best divers from all fleets are gathered for the aqualung testing, their state of health is observed by an experienced doctor, testing is headed by E.I..Sretensky. The unique possibilities of a new underwater respiratory device, surpassing all existing prototypes, arouse a deep interest of western secret services. So do Sretenskys diaries, containing all testing stages. A young post-graduate of a medical institution Balashova comes from Moscow under the pretence of a doctors assistant to take away the diaries.
- 1943. Buryatiya. In a hinterland in far Siberia, many kilometers far from the front battle line there is a small Buryat village. Though there is no place in a country unaffected by War. This village is no exception. All men went to the battle-front, only children, women and old men are left. You need to survive somehow, bring up the smallest, and take care of the ill and old, aid army. 15-year old teenagers shoulders are heavily loaded with war-time and rear chores. They also strive to go to the battle-front, want to fight for their motherland side by side with their fathers and brothers, but they realize that when mothers are out, there are nobody, except them, to take care of kids, graze horses, work on mills and do many other things.
- A retired air force colonel comes on summer vacation to the Crimea. He comes as a non-official holiday-maker, so the main problem is to find night quarters. There is a brim-full of holiday-makers here at holyday season, and for locals the main business is to rent a bunk. And if one also manages to make money on sending pears, apples, grapes, the whole winter will be supported. Thus many locals survive, others become callous, cynical cold fish, concerned only about gains. Anna Ivanovna, the flat owner, renting a bunk to the colonel, starts reminding of the latter. Looking over a photo in a hall, the colonel suddenly recognizes himself in youth with a friend, who died of consumption and who turned out to be the Annas son
- A nice and intelligent girl Lena from a well-to-do nomenklatura family and her friend Alexei - the son of a large factory's chief manager in Minsk - gradually sink to the bottom of life due to heroin addiction.