Olga Prokhvatylo

Schoolboy Dima Shiryaev and his friend, the talking raven Styopa, investigate intricate crimes.

Two escaped convicts pose as children's summer camp staff in order to evade capture and learn about caring for others in the process. Sumrak has been in prison since he was 16 years old but is pushing thirty now, is well acquainted with prison gang culture and covered with tattoos. Evgeni Koltsov is a former police officer unjustly imprisoned and destined for a death sentence from the other inmates if he stays in prison.

The student, Rifle, has managed to seduce his professor's wife, Bomber, an average working guy, has bought a factory and Bullet, the casino lover, is hiding from creditors. They all share a common path and conscription. In the army they teach you that everything must be smart and in order - cockades, straps and all, otherwise you're not fit to call yourself a person, you're a maggot. For a real man, there's no better place than the army.

The film is based on the early songs of Viktor Tsoi. This is a story about a young slacker, easy and fun going through life. He strumming a guitar and composing songs. Drinks with idle friends. The usual, almost domestic, history of betrayal changes everything radically. So the poet is born.

Documentary filmmaker Tatiana is working on a film about former European boxing champion Vadim Larin. As a director, she wants him to return to the ring, which would make her film more optimistic. Larin himself, touched by Tatiana's attention and in love with her, is ready to respond to this wish. However, a victorious return to the ring did not work out...

The trucker Fyodor Mukhin is an inveterate bachelor. Women love him, and he does not even remember everyone with whom fate brought him together. He also does not remember the teacher Masha from a small Ural town, from whom one day he receives a telegram asking him to come urgently. Something makes Fedor respond.

After an accident, an unconscious and charming millionaire from Moscow lands in a provincial boarding house where he is surrounded with loving care by four sexy nurses.

A young woman Ksenia Kolysheva, who grew up as an "indigo girl", unexpectedly discovers the gift of clairvoyance. Alas, there is little happiness in this discovery. The girl sees the future and can predict the fate of a person, which is sometimes tragic. Is it possible to intervene in the course of events, knowing that the outcome is inevitable? And is it worth trying to change fate?

A film-report about one day of work of a television film crew, "making" city news. On this day, student Pasha comes to the group for an internship. One day of practical work was enough for the young man to understand the difference between his romantic ideas about journalistic work and the harsh and ruthless reality.

The history of Bender's hunt for the underground millionaire Koreiko develops in the 1920s. Bright characters, adventurous adventures and a light veil of a bygone era in a new version of the classic work of Soviet literature.

Each of the short stories is based on either one or several stories by a wonderful Russian writer. The heroes are ordinary people “of the people”, contemporaries of Shukshin, all of whose life’s ups and downs are inextricably linked with their country - the Soviet Union of the 60s-70s. The main thing that unites both the works themselves and the films made is a whole gallery of the brightest images and characters, a story about such different destinies and differently meaningful lives, a story in the center of which is invariably Man, with his love, quests, weaknesses and victories.