Traveling along the Volga River, a worker from Kaunas, Jonas Budris, while stopping the ship in one of the Volga towns, searched for the house where his old friend Petr lived. After learning that after Peter's death his wife was hospitalized, his eldest son was serving time for theft, and his youngest had dropped out of school, Jonas decided to interrupt the trip and stayed at his friend's house.

1941. Army commander Kapitonov takes the brunt of the German forces, striving to Rostov. Well aware of the tactics of the German General Leynts, Kapitonov brilliantly conducting an operation that was incorporated into the history of the war under the name "Dyakovo defense."

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.

Katya's life is darkened by a tragic secret: her mother died when her daughter was very young. Suddenly, the girl learns the shocking truth: her mother is alive. The meeting between mother and daughter becomes an emotional challenge for both. On the one hand, intense feelings of joy and love. On the other hand, there is burden and resentment that has accumulated over many years of separation.

The setting is the east shore of the Caspian Sea (today's Turkmenistan) where the Red Army soldier Fyodor Sukhov has been fighting the Civil War in Russian Asia for a number of years. After being hospitalised and then demobbed, he sets off home to join his wife, only to be caught up in a desert fight between a Red Army cavalry unit and Basmachi guerrillas. The cavalry unit commander, Rahimov, "convinces" Sukhov to help, temporarily, with the protection of abandoned women of the Basmachi guerrilla leader Abdullah's harem. Leaving a young Red Army soldier, Petrukha, to assist Sukhov with the task, Rahimov and his cavalry unit set out to pursue fleeing Abdullah.Sukhov and women from Abdullah's harem return to a nearby shore town. Soon, looking for a seaway across the border, Abdullah and his gang come to the same town...

The funeral of the next General Secretary K.U. Chernenko. Sergey Eremin, an editorial worker, decides to finally publish the story of his friend, whom he once betrayed. But the manuscript has disappeared, and Sergei decides to have a frank conversation with the author.

A Russian war correspondent is drafted into the war and finds himself in the middle of battle. When he loses his party card, however, he is treated as a deserter until he finds help from a kind man. This Soviet war feature was considerably outspoken for the time as it addressed issues such as anti-Stalinism, Siberia and the inhumanity of war. Adapting his screenplay from a book by Constantin Simonov, Alexandre Stolper was responsible for writing as well as directing.

Based on the novel of the same name by Daniil Granin. Engineer Chizhegov often travels on business to a small town, where he meets a woman who reciprocates his feelings. The protagonist faces a difficult problem: he is married, and his family lives in Leningrad. Unable to make a final decision and afraid of losing his beloved, he commits a despicable act. His remorse comes too late—Chizhegov loses the woman who was truly dear to him forever.

Four former soldiers reunite 25 years after the war. Last time they saw each other on the Byelorusian railway station in the summer of 1945. Now they've come together to mourn the death of a friend.