The film tells about the outstanding actor Georgy Zhzhenov, his life in Leningrad, the beginning of film activity, arrest, investigation, detention in prisons "Shpalerki" and "Kresty". The hero, as it were, leads a tour of the historical places of his biography. Viewers together with him visit the very cell where Zhzhenov spent two and a half years, his communal apartment. Georgy Stepanovich meets people with whom he was once familiar, long-forgotten names, surnames, poetic lines arise in his memory...

The story of a complex relationship between a mother and son belonging to the highest circles of the Moscow elite.

Three parts of the cycle - three films: "Never Say Never", "Fraer of Muddy Water", "The Last Mohicans". Zhzhenov's activity in cinema began before the age of 22. Then there was an arrest with interrogations and prisons, then camps... The artist tells about his life in Russian prisons and the places where he was imprisoned: in Kresty, in Vladivostok, in Magadan. Excerpts from the films in which Georgy Zhzhenov starred surprisingly reveal his own life.

The central episode of the third film is a meeting between G.S. Zhzhenov and the classic of Russian literature V. P. Astafyev (filming took place shortly before the writer's death), as well as a dialogue with General A. I. Lebedev about the fate of Russia.

The documentary tells about the Romanov family. It discusses versions about the possible salvation of the imperial family, tells about impostors who consider themselves descendants of Nicholas II, and the film also touches on the fate of the regicides.

The ship sails down the Yenisei River to the city of Igarka. Its passengers are those who in the 1930s and 1940s were repressed, exiled here and lived here for some part of their lives. Those who survived, half a century later, want to return to their own past. It's fun on the boat now. A song is being sung about "... everything will pass, both sadness and joy." Former "convicts" and "special settlers" relax in deck chairs on the deck, in the evenings they dance there to the orchestra, sing to the accordion - and calmly, without anguish, remember the destroyed, crumpled youth. Then some were signed up as fists, others as spies, and all of them were sent to Igarka, almost to the end of the world. And although this past seems like a dream, they cannot escape from it...

About the brightest genre of Russian folklore.

In Soviet times, the songs "Soviet Easter", "Cigarette Butt", "Comrade Stalin" were sung by the whole country (and, according to rumors, members of the politburo also enjoyed it), but few people knew that these "folk" hits had an author – Yuz Aleshkovsky. Having traveled from East to West, he became a famous writer in a country that is still considered the most reading. The concepts of Freedom and Creativity for him are not so much philosophical categories, but a credo of life. The genre of Sergei Miroshnichenko's new film can be defined as "a lyrical post-Soviet comedy with a dramatic touch."