Gennadiy Voronin

An omnibus of comical shorts.

The film is based on the early autobiographical stories of Vasily Makarovich Shukshin. A bright, emotionally rich movie about the childhood of a boy from a distant Altai village, about his family — his sister and mother, about work, holidays, joys and troubles of ordinary Russian peasants during the Great Patriotic War...

Varvara and Pavel Zhdanov did not live long together. The war broke out and Pavel went to the front, and a hard, exhausting job at a metallurgical plant fell on the shoulders of a young woman...

Pavel and Pavelina leave their rural countryside homes and move to Moscow to find work. Once there, they find that urban life is not what they thought it was and have to endure bitter hardships as they try to find work and places to live. The two meet for the first time during a fight at a bar, when they are arrested by police along with others in the building. The understand each other's troubles and band together to avoid both the police and criminal gangs that plagued Moscow toward the end of the Soviet Union.

A story based on a few chapters from the classical "The Brothers Karamazov" novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

The crew of a navy boat rescue a bear cub.

An old woman from Caucasian Mountains goes to the front line do give her sons weapons of their ancestors.

The story is about a young fisherman, a pupil of an orphanage, who, due to a curious accident, ends up on the fishing trawler "Dauria" and, thanks to his open and kind character, quickly becomes part of a friendly family of fishermen.