A comedy about a New Year Eve celebration in one very funny hospital.

Это военно-морские байки, повествование о том, как на военно-морской флот прибыл гражданский штурман с обезьянкой на плече. В первый же вечер он обыграл своего командира на бильярде, не зная, что это его будущий командир. Штурмана ссылают на минный тральщик, который нужно отремонтировать, чтобы продать невероятному противнику «на иголки». Для ремонта с гауптвахты берут самых отчаянных матросов. Когда приходит время передачи корабля вероятному противнику, матросы топят его.

A Finn preparing a work on the Russian hunting traditions and customs, comes to Russia to collect materials and is invited to take part in a hunting party. His flamboyant companions include an Army general, with more than a passing resemblance to Aleksander Lebed, a police detective, local forest ranger (a devotee of Zen Buddhism) and some big-city types from St. Petersburg. Inevitably, their good intentions soon give way to endless drinking, visits to local farm girls and much else besides.

​Young soldiers in the Soviet Internal Troops are subjected to systematic abuse during their dedovshchina (hazing). The plot unfolds primarily aboard a prisoner transport rail car guarded by a unit of paramilitary conscripts.

Sisin, a forty-year-old writer, gets on the train and goes out of town. In the car, he is surrounded by strange passengers, some of whom resemble famous Russian writers: Chekhov, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Kuprin... Surreal visions, hidden desires, fears, and anxieties arise in Sisin's imagination. Love, career, and life itself seem stupid and meaningless to him.

A student is trying to build a career in theater using not his talent but looks and sexuality.

The film tells about the misadventures of an ordinary person who happened to have a suitcase with a lot of money... It turns out that it is not at all easy to find a worthy use for such money, and in the final it turns out a simple truth — “happiness is not in money ...”