Sergeant Nikolai Gorovoy returns to his native village after serving in the Army and, overcoming all sorts of difficulties, raises the collective farm amateur art organization to a proper height. His intentions, persistence and enviable patience were not in vain: when the TV group "Hello, we are looking for talents" came to the village, a bright musical spectacle unfolded in front of the TV cameras.

At the beginning of "perestroyka", city authorities are getting ready for another event in keeping with the spirit of stagnant times. A director with a rather "unyielding" character is assigned to make a film about the birth of the one millionth inhabitant. However, when he finds the heroine of his story, there is no much "positive" to show as this family hardly suits for advertising happy life...

An average soldier is caught up in the cogs of an inhuman war machine during the First World War.

A mother and daughter were brutally murdered in their apartment on Saturday morning. The killer treated the latter cruelly — her face was disfigured beyond recognition. The missing item — an ancient cross with black pearls — was found at one of the acquaintances of the murdered woman. He was hastily tried and sentenced to capital punishment...

While investigating an ordinary homicide a group of detectives suddenly find a connection to a very first faces of USSR government.

During a nationwide moral panic caused by a recent spike in teenage suicides two federal investigators are sent to a small Russian town to review a cold case involving a suspicious death of a schoolgirl. Initially seeing their task as a mere PR stunt both gradually start to loose their focus as they venture deeper into the paranoid world of conspiracy theories surrounding the case.

The actions of this mystery movie takes both in the past (in medieval times, as the scientists' hallucinations) and in the days of Perestroika.

The dramatic story of the moral fall of a former plant director who became addicted to the “green serpent.”