In the apartment of Anna, who, judging by her testimony to the investigation, was on a business trip, a fire broke out at night. The son was saved, but as a result of a nervous shock he was speechless. The investigation, the mother and father of the child will find out the true cause of the tragedy.

Lena, a woman in her late twenties, loves her boyfriend, but in time comes to see that their relationship serves no useful function. What's more, she sees that her friends are for the most part empty-headed lackeys, causing her to wonder just what is the point of her life.

In the 1920s, a young Komsomol member is elected as a shepherd in a farmstead on the Don River. After the kulaks kill the chairman of the executive committee in revenge, the shepherd writes to a newspaper about it.

A story of a four sons of a big Ivanov family who are trying to start their own independent life.

The play “Zykovs” was written in 1912, during a time of confusion and depression in Russian society, a period of pre-war spiritual and moral decline. The state of the world is depicted here with a single phrase: “there was confusion of concepts”... The film-performance based on the eponymous play by M. Gorky, directed by the Moscow Drama Theater named after A.S. Pushkin.

Based on the novel of the same name by M. Sholokhov and staged by the Pushkin Moscow Drama Theater.