The film takes place in America in the 30-50s of our century. The hero of the film, claiming to be a biblical prophet, goes from an embittered teenager to a hardened criminal...

Nikolai (played by Sergei Dontsov) has been fired from his job as a music teacher and has to live in the gym until he finds a place to stay. Finally, he gets a communal room in the apartment of Gorokhov (Victor Mikhalkov). The room's previous inhabitant, an old lady, has died a year ago, and yet her cat, Maxi, is still in the locked room, healthy and fat. Soon, Nikolai and his neighbours discover the mystery: there is a window to Paris in the room. That's when the comedy begins - will the Russians be able to cope with the temptation to profit from the discovery?

A slice of life among Russian intelligentsia on the eve of WWII. A haunting reminder of Stalin's psychotic purge of 1938 and the nightmarish German siege of Leningrad.

About the death of Aleksandr Pushkin, the leading poet and writer of Russia, who was shot on a duel and died when he was 37.

Torn by personal guilt, Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his 1928 failed Arctic expedition aboard the airship Italia.

The film is about a family with three happy people - a father, a mother and a 10-year-old son. But it happens that a father is turned into a criminal. He could not prove that he was right. And no one was interested in this. Out of grief, he began to drink. And he drank to the point that he lost his human face. Happiness left the family, the boy’s childhood ended.

Tank crew Officer-member Fedotov on the way from a hospital on visiting home became acquainted with young Sonya, mother of three children. After demobilization went back to her. Happiness of them was short. Sonya became ill and died. Soon her husband arrived after children, but left with a father only junior.

The dramatic story of the moral fall of a former plant director who became addicted to the “green serpent.”

Humanity presented a beautiful and touching picture on the first day of the new year. Everyone was happy, rejoicing, congratulating each other. The air was filled with the most sincere and heartfelt wishes. Everyone was happy and satisfied... Only the provincial secretary Ponimaev was dissatisfied. On New Year's afternoon, he stood on one of the capital's streets and protested. Hugging a lamppost with his right hand and waving away who knows what with his left, he muttered unforgivable and intended things...