The film consists of three independent parts: "Workmate", "Déjà vu" and "Operation Y". The plot follows the adventures of Shurik, the naive and nerdy Soviet student who often gets into ludicrous situations but always finds a way out very neatly.

Shurik, a kind but naïve ethnography student, falls in love with the intelligent, athletic and beautiful All-Union Leninist Young Communist League member Nina. He has a rival in the wealthy comrade Saakhov, who concocts a kidnapping scheme to force Nina to marry him.

A scientist builds a time machine and accidentally sends his apartment complex manager and a petty burglar to 16th century Moscow, while Tsar Ivan the Terrible travels to 1973.

A team of pop artists arrives in a small resort town and hopes to make money easily. But the guest performers are not given a provincial reception. Vacationing students of the theater university expose the hacks and declare a boycott against them...

A sports drama about a Soviet girl, a natural-born swimmer, who easily sets world records in training but cannot overcome her fear of competing in international competitions in front of packed stands.

Follows the preschooler Slavka and his father, a researcher, an avid fan of the lottery "Sport Lotto". One day Slavka brought home a hedgehog, which he exchanged with a friend for a lottery ticket from his dad.…

Varvara and Pavel Zhdanov did not live long together. The war broke out and Pavel went to the front, and a hard, exhausting job at a metallurgical plant fell on the shoulders of a young woman...

Petr Konstantinovich is the powerful Director of Petrochemical Industry, which is being built from scratch in a small Siberian town.

A chronicle-poetic film about St. Petersburg-Leningrad from the Italian television documentary series "Cultural Capitals of Europe" (seventh film).

After being demobilized from the army, journalist Pavel Tyurin returned to his hometown, where his beloved girlfriend was no longer waiting for him. In addition, his room was given to another tenant. Pasha joined the newspaper's editorial office, where he worked before the army, and began to actively fight for social justice...