Romantic John the Fool and his friend Foal set out on a series of unpredictable adventures in different magical worlds. The two buddies will have to outsmart an evil tyrant king, catch the firebird, and find John’s true love.

1829: Nikolay Gogol, troubled Third Section clerk, burns his own books. Epileptic seizures plague him. Investigator Yakov Guro discovers Gogol's visions hold crime-solving clues. Together, they tackle a baffling case in Dikanka, where everyone hides a dark secret.

In childhood, everyone wants - “when they grow up” - to become stars or world champions, generals or models, rich bums or simple astronauts. No one dreams of a career as a vacuum cleaner or scavenger. But fate has its own plans. Two childhood friends meet at the bottom of their lives. One is a loser actor who sniffs Chinese frying pans for grandmothers. The second is a gopnik from the district, has not dried up since the days of vocational school. And suddenly they have a chance to break out of the quagmire and make their dreams come true! To do this, you just need to steal a Faberge egg from the local museum of local lore. The customer of the daring robbery is a descendant of that same Faberge, and he has his own dream: to return the relic to the family. And everything could have gone well, only one of the friends falls in love with the wife of the other.

When two spoiled hipsters embark on the rusty trawler for a summer internship, they get much more than what they bargained for. This shabby boat is the floating home of a dozen weary and irritable sailors, whose only priority is making money and not getting killed in the process. Ice-cold waves, incredibly beautiful but severe seascapes, hard labour and tons of stinking fish is the daily menu. The sea is unpredictable, and the upcoming storm is not the main test that awaits the ship’s crew. Their trip to sea, however, turns out to be more serious and more tragic than either of them could have imagined.

Dovlatov charts six days in the life of a brilliant, ironic writer who saw far beyond the rigid limits of 70s Soviet Russia. Sergei Dovlatov fought to preserve his own talent and decency with poet and writer Joseph Brodsky, while watching his artist friends got crushed by the iron-willed state machinery.

Yekaterinburg of the 90s. A company of young poets, including the most talented — a junior researcher at the Institute of Geophysics Boris Ryzhy, wanders through the cold and dangerous streets of the city from party to party. Ironic and friendly, he can negotiate with local brothers with equal ease, drive to Moscow for the "Anti-Booker" award, fight at the stall and crash into the department.

The naive school teacher Lena suddenly loses both her job and her husband. "The problem is definitely in me," she decides, and on the advice of a friend, she signs up to reshape herself for the "Become a Goddess" training. The result is obvious: a new image and a loving admirer Andrey. It's just not clear whether Lena managed to find herself, and whether something very important was lost in the process.

Leningrad, one summer in the early eighties. Smuggling LPs by Lou Reed and David Bowie, the underground rock scene is boiling ahead of the Perestroika. Mike and his beautiful wife Natasha meet with young Viktor Tsoi. Together with friends, they will change the destiny of rock’n’roll in the Soviet Union.

Verkhnekamsk. Lonely loser Sasha works as a security guard at an exchange office. His life "didn't happen," his dreams didn't come true, his family didn't work out. Sasha feels unnecessary and unhappy, and not being able to change anything, he gives up morally. But even here Sasha does not have the courage to complete the matter himself, he turns to an old friend - the husband of his ex-wife - for help.

A successful film artist plans to go to his hometown for his sister’s wedding, accompanied by a movie star. With his arrival, he is going to humiliate his hated fiancé, the fat man and the slacker Shurik. But a quarrel with the actress ruins not only all his plans, but also radically changes his life. A true story of a selfish macho's reassessment of values.