It was 1927. Philip Kasatkin, the son of a farm laborer, joined the Komsomol and began a whirlwind of activity, full of worries, victories, and defeats.

About the preparation and conduct of an expedition to the North Pole led by the famous explorer of the North, sailor and hydrographer Georgy Yakovlevich Sedov (1877-1914), organized by him in 1912 with private donations. The film is set in 1912-1914.

The action takes place in the early 1980s, in the Arctic, at a mining plant. The long-overdue issue of radical restructuring of production has caused heated debate between the opposing parties. How to ensure the safe work of miners and not reduce labor productivity? There is a conflict between the director and the chief engineer of the enterprise...

Zhenya Golubeva is a Muscovite who graduated from a construction institute and left for a big construction site in Siberia together with other graduates of IISI. Her and her friends‘ fates will turn out differently.

A movie novel about the life of the village. Having devoted his life to his native village, Mikhail Petrovich Zubov has become somewhat coarse and even embittered by the end of his chairmanship. About this honestly and openly tells him the young party leader of the collective farm. But no matter how difficult it is for the chairman to understand the fairness of criticism, his love for the land helps Zubov to change his relations with people.

The main characters are two graduates of a music school, gifted violinists. Andrei is ambitious, able-bodied, absorbed in the desire to achieve recognition. The other is Ladya Bragin, simple and reckless. On the day of the exam at the conservatory, he meets a girl who works as a clown, and immediately decides to stay in the circus. The creative successes of the heroes do not immediately and not simply take shape. Their will, their conviction of a calling, are severely tested. And yet both come to understand what happiness music can give and how much it demands from a musician...

Doctor Nechayev lives by the concerns of his patients. This is a man of remarkable mental qualities and a highly qualified specialist in cardiology, but he is completely unadapted to life in everyday life and imperceptibly lost himself, did not do much of what he dreamed of and did not understand the selfless love of a young student Alya. The doctor gradually puts an end to his hopes and dreams – they fade into the background, supplanted by work in the hospital.