Lidiya Ishimbaeva

Based on a famous play by Ivan Turgenev. The sudden arrival of a guest, Count Lubin, stirred the quiet, measured life of Stupendievs, revived hopes for change. Childhood and youth of Darya Ivanovna, 28-year-old wife Stupendyeva, passed in the estate of the Count's mother, in Spassky. She remembers him as a brilliant officer, and keeps her youth's feeling about him.

Police are detaining an opposition newspaper journalist on suspicion of murder. The prosecution's evidence is scanty and fragile. But a dirty political fuss has developed around this case. The fate and life of a person become the stake in the struggle for power.

A two-part television play based on the novel by Charles Dickens featuring songs by poet David Samoylov.

The action takes place in the pre-revolutionary years and in the first days after the October Revolution. The main character, a female student, becomes an ally of a Bolshevik, who later dies on the front lines of the Civil War.

The most famous work of the remarkable classic of Finnish literature Hella Wuolijoki is the saga of the Niskavuori family, consisting of five plays. The first of them, *"The Young Mistress of Niskavuori"*, which reflects the Finnish national character, tells the story of love, changes in life, disappointments, and views on morality through the eyes of straightforward, stubborn people from the countryside who must adapt to new circumstances. The action takes place in 1880.

The chief engineer of a large enterprise is waiting for a meeting with the minister on an important issue and at the same time is trying to return the woman he loves.

Three Novels from the Life of the Factory.

Varya Gracheva's husband left her. During these difficult days, a chance acquaintance, a television technician named Mitya Paramonov, comes to her aid. He helps Varya sort out her feelings and tries to reconcile her with her husband. However, Varya is still unable to forgive the betrayal...

A group of young men bursts into a hotel where several guests are already staying, not long after they had run over a motorcyclist and his passenger with their car. Brandishing a knife, they demand that the guests give them a car.

The landowner Mordashov, in order to please his future son-in-law Alexei Fursikov, marks his daughter’s entire dowry with the monogram “A.F.” But the groom gives compensation. So that the goods are not lost, the prudent father begins the search for a groom with the appropriate initials Az and Firth.

Kris Kelvin joins the space station orbiting the planet Solaris, only to find its two crew members plagued by "phantoms," creations of Solaris. Kelvin is soon confronted with his own phantom, taking the shape of his dead wife Hari.

Mathematics teacher Ivan Lunev proposes a new method of teaching children. This innovation has yielded brilliant results. However, there are also those who oppose him...

Based on the play of the same name by A.N. Ostrovsky.

Three interlocutors are having a sedate conversation in a cozy hallway...

A wounded partisan took refuge in the mill, and the miller informed the second lieutenant of the government troops about this. Seeing the partisan, the second lieutenant recognizes him as a friend of his youth...

Mrs. Dulska, the landlady of a tenement building, is obsessed with her son, going to great lengths to prevent him from getting married.

At one court hearing, a witness, who is engaged in prostitution, refused to take the oath, cause she didn't consider herself as a Christian. That incident caused great excitement in the hall.

Mr. Puntilla is kind to his servants only when he's drunk, and at other times, they endure nothing but insults from him. However, the servant Matti manages to preserve his human dignity...

Ivan Perepasov has been serving at the railway station as a pointsman for twenty-two years. It seemed to him that all he could do was run along the arrows, give signals, light lanterns. The shift was coming to an end, Ivan hurried home, where his wife and eight children were waiting for him. Suddenly it seemed to him that he had forgotten, after the passage of a freight train, to throw the switch lever onto the main track, along which the postal train was now rushing. Ivan, in despair, rushes onto the adjacent track and falls under a maneuvering locomotive...

An orphaned ninth-grader comes to the factory where her father once worked.

A despairing scholar sells his soul to Satan in exchange for one night with a beautiful young woman.

A prominent scientist Andrei Loginov comes to the city of his youth, just for one day, while passing through. Here he meets the woman he once loved. Memories of days long past, of the people who remained there, turn out to be not such a simple matter.

The plot revolves around the residents of a communal apartment in Moscow, particularly the Yakushev and Banykin families. Their wonderful relationships could make even the closest of relatives envious. Over the course of many days, the audience witnesses the complex fates of various people. However, the old building is being demolished, and all the neighbors are relocated to different apartments...

Early 20th century. Two village boys, brothers Semyon and Pavel, work as servants for a Moscow merchant. They face harsh exploitation and hard labor. The brothers' paths diverge. Unable to endure the merchant's abuse, Pavel leaves for a factory, becomes a worker, and later a revolutionary. Semyon remains in service. In the post-revolutionary period, Semyon, having served at the front and returned to the village, joins the kulaks and brutally cracks down on representatives of the Soviet government, becoming the leader of a gang of "badgers" hiding in the forests. A Red Army detachment led by Pavel is sent to fight the bandits.