In this whimsical television play based on a fairy-tale by Karel Čapek, an enterprising detective goes on a globe-trotting adventure to catch a mysterious wizard.

One day in the life of a modern St. Petersburg woman, a woman of post-Balzac age, with whom something is happening. Either a spiritual crisis or a momentary obsession...

A love story of two people which turns out into triangle... So the steady family walls do not seem so steady anymore...

Three astronauts (two Russians and American) find a very Soviet-alike small town on the fourth planet from Sun.

The eldest son, who left for St. Petersburg, where he works as a detective, comes to the family of a crooked merchant and shopkeeper Grigory Tsybukin. Parents decide to marry him - his son is already 28 years old. They find a poor, but beautiful, clean and modest girl who meekly marries an already worn-out and balding man from the city, decently "laying by the collar". There is a merry wedding, and the husband leaves, leaving another worker in the family...

Bracelet-2 is a grey trotter at a Russian race track stable. Daily beatings from a cold-hearted trainer turns him into an unreliable emotional wreck, and in race after race he breaks his trot and finishes at a gallop, resulting in disqualification. To the trainer Bracelet is worthless, so when World War II breaks out and Soviet Army representatives come to the track to requisition horses for the front, the trainer is only too happy to be rid of him. Now, instead of a racing sulky, Bracelet is forced to pull heavy carts and sleighs laden with munitions. Gradually he resigns to his fate...

An almanac of short feature films based on stories by Mikhail Mishin from the collection of short stories "Pause in a Major".

At the end of September 1941, Soviet artillery troops in besieged Leningrad realize that pretty soon they will fire their last shot, and after that the defense of the city will be doomed. The film is based on a true event: a small group of fearless soldiers transported a large supply of gunpowder through enemy lines to Leningrad.

A group of police detectives are trying to prevent shipping abroad of stolen art valuables.