Ekaterina Zhemchuzhnaya

This colourful, music-filled and sensual melodrama based on early stories by Maxim Gorky tells the fatal love story between the beautiful and rebellious girl Rada and the handsome horse thief Zobar. The story is set in early 20th century Bessarabia, now part of Moldova, then belonging to the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

In Moscow in 1919 there are still anarchist organizations, whose actions are clearly anti-Soviet in nature. The Chekists have to expose their activities. The case is entrusted to three newly conscripted Komsomol comrades.

Madina in a trance for a loved one commits a crime, goes to prison, and then in the women's prison.

To earn money for married life, a young engaged man takes a job as an engineer on a privately operated oil drilling rig in the far North of Russia. A friend's letter brings the sad news that his fiancée has already married someone else and in desperation he quits his job and flies back to Moscow. There all his vast efforts to win her back seem in vain...

A young Russian girl is in love with show business and wants to leave her small town for Moscow and make it big in the big city. She encounters her long missing, remarried father and gets a boy friend who uses her and then leaves her.

Story based on an ancient Gypsy Proverbs, which talked about how the thirst for gold, wealth deprived "Gypsy birds" their true form and turned into a wandering people.

A funny family comedy about how big wealth can affect life.

Criminals kidnapped the son of the chairwoman of the city administration. Feelings of helplessness and fear follow. A series of checks, mocking calls, humiliating requests for help to colleagues in the "shadow business" goes on and on.

An unmarried shy 40-year-old can’t find the courage to ask a woman on a date, so his womanizer friend, who promised to his friend’s parents he’d find him a girlfriend, sets out to find the perfect match.

A story about a gypsy boy who lives with his mother in the South-Russian village.

A son comes to Leningrad on the birthday of his mother. He is the director of a large Siberian construction, twice married, happy in work, and in family life. His second wife Lida is also here. She brought her son and daughter with her. The youth of the mother of the family fell on the 30s. Life practically did not change its principles and beliefs. And it's not clear to her children, and even more so grandchildren, for whom her ideals do not mean anything.

Ivan is the only man in his family. He's constantly surrounded by the attention of his mother, grandmother, and two sisters. The women don’t give him a moment of peace, bombarding him with advice about his personal life. One day, he strikes a deal with a wild and reckless young woman, introducing her to his family as his wife. Ivan does this on purpose — so that when he eventually brings home the woman he truly loves, his family will welcome her with open arms.