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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".
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- A mature man Sergey Dolganov (V.Smirnov) is jack-of-all-trades, a man of generous nature and open heart, but at first sight looks like a looser. He has neither money, nor family, no constant job. He wanders about cities in search of a sole and unique girl, whom he would marry, make a family with, but in vain. And in all his free-will wanderings everywhere his fate casts him, he builds fountains not for money, but to bring people happiness. Once he happens to visit a steppe collective farm, where he is trying to build a fountain and where he meets the sole and unique. But a girl already has a boy-friend, and he has to do his best to conquer her love.
- 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.
- Vladmir Bobylev goes on leave for his 60th anniversary. He takes his wife and son and heads for his native town Kholmy, where he stops with his family at his battle comrade, who suggests a trip to their battle places. The old man agrees almost without hesitation, for after the war hes never been there. They get acquainted with German tourists, and it turns out that one of them also fought here as an officer in the Army of fascist general Paulus
- 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.
- Once upon a time, miles and miles away, there was an old man with an old woman. They spent with each other a long time but had no children. One day an old man made a dolly of dough, put her on the oven, and suddenly a baby was born out of a dolly, and he wasnt a simple child, because he grew before their eyes, ate like seven, until he grew into a huge and strong guy. There was the thing that grieved old men, that he had no heart, after all, he was made of dough. Once he met a neighboring beauty girl, paid compliments to her, fooling around, she thought he had fallen in love, and didnt know at that time that he had no heart, and fell in love with the hercules. He started getting cast down, and headed, as they say, to show his worth and see the others
- The kind elk does not know how to refuse, and his antlers turn into a home for forest dwellers.
- 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.
- 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".
- After a story of Yuri Nagibin Need grey hair. Having arrived to Leningrad on official business, an engineer Sergei Ivanovich Gushchin gets acquainted with a young actress Natasha. She offers to show him Leningrad, but Gushin knows this city quite well he served here during the War. They seek for a cause for further dates, but he keeps on finding excuses not to date a woman who is much younger and whom he fell in love with. In the end Natasha will realize that she loves him too but Gushchin will leave, never deciding to cast in his lot with her.
- The tale about a magic fish that too literally understands the wishes of lazy fool.
- A young post-graduate from Minsk Anna Mazurkevich comes to her native village, where she hasnt been for 12 years, to stay in her grannys house. Here, in peace and quiet, she is intended to write a thesis. But suddenly two strangers come and claim that yesterday in Minsk the houses owner let out to them for two weeks, and to convince her they switch on TV-set, where Annas mother confirm their words and asks her to stay for a while with their neighbor ankle Gena. All this looks very strange because not very clear how they managed to organize live broadcast. Then absolutely inexplicable things start to happen. The strangers say that they have to go to the XVIII century to find a genius, living at that moment right here, and take him to the future
- 1734. The impassible forests in the north of Orthodox Russia home the vaguls, one of its small nations, who have preserved the rites and customs of their ancestors. As any other nation, the vaguls have their history, traditions and gods, the main of which is the golden goddess, the patroness of the vaguls. There were times, many centuries ago, when she stood on a top of a mountain, and anyone could come and ask her for help. But the years passed and the fear for her safety for she was made of pure gold made the vaguls hide her from aliens. Legends about The golden goddess exist to present day, many hunters perished, trying to find her. Once upon a time a deputy of Russian tsarina sends his serf Ivan to taiga to search for the golden goddess, and promised to give freedom to him and to return his fiancée Anna.
- 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 40-year-old man with the development of a 10-year-old found himself out of a psychiatric clinic for the first time in his life. He faces difficulties and misunderstanding from others and tries to adapt to a new life for himself.
- 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.
- 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.