Sergey Nikitin

Living together in a workers' dorm, Katerina and her friends are determined to make it in Moscow. But when a boorish cameraman forces himself on her, Katerina finds herself pregnant and alone as her friends move on. Twenty years later, Katerina is a factory director, outpacing her old roommates career-wise, yet still alone but for her daughter. Love seems possible again when she meets a genial mechanic.

A group of old friends have a tradition of going to a public bathing house on New Year's Eve. Occasionally too much vodka and beer makes two of them unconscious. The problem is that one of them (Sasha) has to go to Leningrad but another one (Zhenya) goes. Zhenya wakes up at Leningrad airport. Believing that he is still in Moscow he takes a taxi and goes home. The street name, building and even apartment number, the way an apartment complex looks the same and the key coincide completely - just typical Soviet-type 'economy' architecture. Imagine the surprise of Nadya when she enters her apartment and finds a man without trousers in her bed. What's more - Nadya's fiancé also finds him there...

How the boy Vasya and the owl Dusya went to look for the missing sun.

Couple in love. Modern music sounds everywhere - on Leningrad roofs, Zodchego Rossi Street, on balconies and in the windows of houses. Music floats along canals, passes under bridges, and goes out onto the embankments of the Neva.

Three evil wizards from a gloomy enchanted forest littered with broken toys and school supplies enter the city through a secret door in the fence to find three lazy children who "waste time." Having found such lazy people - a schoolboy and a schoolgirl, sorcerers deceive them by deceiving them of the time that they thoughtlessly lost by skipping school. As a result, old people turn into big children, and children into little grandparents.

How a dog, a horse and a cat became friends.

Teleplay staged by Ermolova Theater.

A flutist in the forgotten past, at present the husband of a “big man’s” daughter and head of one of the Chief Directorate’s sections felt unwell one day: the forty-year-old man had a pain in his heart. This unpleasant incident provided an opportunity to meet a nurse named Lida. However, their stormy love affair ended, with Filimonov returning to normal life and an unloved wife.

Actor Evgeny Vesnik tells the story of "The Adventures of Buratino" fairy tale creation which was first written by Carlo Collodi and called "The Adventures of Pinocchio" – the story of a wooden doll. Fragments of the cartoon "The Adventures of Buratino". Nikolay Sats shares his memories of the meeting with the writer Alexey Tolstoy. Fragments of the play "The Golden Key" at the Central Children's Theater. Actress Rina Zelenaya talks about her participation in the film "The Adventures of Buratino". Fragments from the film. Bulat Okudzhava talks about his work on songs for the film "The Adventures of Buratino". Release of sparkling water "Buratino". Preparing children for the carnival in the Leningrad Palace of Pioneers and Schoolchildren. Children go to the carnival, dance.

What should you do if you have lost the opportunity to see your only grandson? A young charming grandmother, hoping to influence her former daughter-in-law, meets her new father-in-law... This is how an amazing love story begins.

This is a modern version of a musical fairy tale written in 1981 by Sergei Nikitin and Viktor Berkovsky based on poems by Veniamin Smekhov.

Two families are trying to fix their problems during the celebration of the New Year.

About three friends who managed to scare the evil wolves.

The younger of two sisters living together suddenly meets the love of her life...

Kashtanov, professor of medicine and famous Moscow surgeon, is experiencing midlife crisis. Suddenly he decides to leave everything and escape to the countryside in order to spend some time with old friends.

For modern teenagers, the Great Patriotic War is a very long‑ago history that they know only from computer games. That’s how Yegor and Ilya felt too. By a twist of fate, the boys come across the story of the heroic feat of Lieutenant Moroz’s tank crew in the huge tank battle of 1941, which took place in Belarus, near the town of Senno. This encounter reveals the real war to them, makes them look at their computer game hobby in a different way — more maturely and meaningfully — and makes them rethink their family, with which this story turns out to be personally connected...

A cult Soviet musical based on Ali Baba story with spoken-word interludes stylized as Persian poetry.

Eldar Ryazanov reads his poetry. An introspective movie on his multifaceted work.