After perestroika in the Soviet Union there is a total collapse of the Soviet system, which leads to chaos in the country. The protagonist of the film, a foreign student, after graduation does not want to return to his country because of the military coup that took place there. But the Soviet government gave clear deadlines for him to leave the country.
A young couple, not wanting to, faced the fact of having a baby. They are offered to sell it to a rich childless family. Deceived by her lover, the mother agrees, but dies during childbirth. New parents receive the coveted son, and the father of the child goes abroad. Years pass and dad returns.
Communist Ivan Platonov is actively involved in the collectivization of his native land, even the death of his wife does not stop him. One by one, rebellions of discontented peasants break out. Platonov's propaganda work takes on a different quality, the hero takes up arms and is not afraid of death.…
A middle-aged woman Ksenia (N. Yegorova) has a usual regular life: routine work in typography, home without husband, whom she has long divorced, 17-year old daughter with teenage problems, a friend, trying to give her in marriage. In short, nothing special. Though sometimes she sings in a local chorus for the good of her soul. But once a head of municipal folklore consort drops in, and they get into conversation, and he invites her to the run-through. She comes, tries her forces with the others, but for some reason she is not let to the concerts She gets acquainted with a nimble administrator, who gathers a concert group and proposes to go on tour. She agrees and changes her life dramatically.
Young spouses go on a boat on a honeymoon. A fire occurs along the way - and in front of the eyes of the young wife, a burning beam falls on Matvey. Time passes, Natasha marries Stepan, who saved her that tragic night. But one day, they accidentally learn that Matvey is alive. Stepan decides to find him and leaves Moscow ...
During the Great Patriotic War, battalion commander Pavel Akimov fell in love with the military translator Anechka Belozerova, but the circumstances of military life separated them.
Spring, 1944. The Great Patriotic war. The German fascists are still in Sevastopol. A fierce combat is taking place there. At the same time in Yalta, which has already been freed, life goes on peacefully. People believe that the war has left them, that it is far away and no longer dangerous… But the torpedo motor-boat squadron stationed in Yalta is still having a hard time. Every day Soviet marines undertake dangerous sorties towards the German-occupied Sevastopol.
A student falls in love with a girl detained on a false suspicion of speculation.
Based on short stories by Vasiliy Shukshin. About the life and people of the modern Soviet village. Old Yermolai lived all his life in one village. He has four sons, each with their own problems. The youngest foolishly ended up in jail and, three months before his release, greatly missing his family, escaped.
During World War II, оld Georgian peasant wine-grower Georgy leaves his Georgian village and goes off to the front line, hoping to find his son. George should see and transfer a lot of things, he becomes a soldier and only in the last days of war finds the son...
Lyuba, a daughter of King of Chess is kidnapped by playing Cards... Young Vanya and his best friend - Puss in the boots - are trying to rescue Lyuba.
After his father's death, teenager Viktor Tsaplin was sent by his stepmother, who suspected the boy of stealing watches, to an Odessa orphanage. The guys met the new guy unfriendly, and when the teacher's antique watch was missing, Victor was considered the culprit. After enrolling in a nautical school and once going to sea with tipsy fishermen, Victor crashes a boat. He is being expelled from the college. Deciding to start a new life and in a new place, Victor leaves to work as a fireman in Kamchatka.