Valery Ponomaryov

Three stories about the people who live in small village in Belarus.

A satirical comedy about the events which happened in the toys factory a few days before celebrating it's 50 years aniversary.

A group of Belarusian anti-Soviet insurgents from the failed Slutsk Defence Action wanders through forests, fleeing the from the surrounding Bolshevik army. To escape captivity or death in battle with a subsequent identification of their bodies and retaliation against their families, the insurgents decide to commit group suicide in a place hidden from the Bolsheviks.

In the vicinity of the river port, the boys discovered a warehouse of German ammunition, preserved from the Second World War. To save the city from an accidental explosion, a detachment of sapper soldiers was involved in the case.

The film takes place in Moscow in 1925, during the New Economic Policy (NEP). The three main characters - Misha, Genka, and Slava - have grown up and become Komsomol members. A murder occurs in their courtyard: engineer Zimin is shot dead at night. The prime suspect turns out to be a local hooligan. But Misha refuses to believe him completely and tries to find evidence on his own.