Alfred Zinovyev

The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army.

The film is based on the real fact — football «The Death Match» between the German team and a team of Soviet prisoners of war, former "Dinamo". It happened in Kiev on June 22, 1942. Anticipating the possibility of losing, the Germans made a condition — defeat or death. If the Germans won, the Soviet footballers were promised freedom...

In 1812, as Napoleon's army invades Russia, Kutuzov asks Bolkonsky to join him as a staff officer, yet the prince requests a command in the field. Pierre sets out to watch the armies' impending confrontation. As the Battle of Borodino rages, he volunteers to assist in an artillery battery. Part three of the four-part adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel.

1940s Arctic, a new boss arrives to build a port. They are waiting for him impatiently, they greet him with joy, but the one who arrives is not the one they were expecting. He begins his acquaintance sternly: "Less chatter, we must get down to business!" - proclaims the new government.

The film is about a group of people who in other times wouldn't have anything in common, some of them innocent bystanders, some moral criminals. But nothing is straightforward and simple. From Russia "the flight" continues to Constantinople, to Paris, back to Russia. Some of them have understood that they can't live outside Russia and go back maybe to be happy, maybe not, some go back to face sure death for their crimes, some don't go back and know that are going to miss homeland forever, some are comfortably well off (are they?) in exile.

The builders of the metallurgical plant and the new city of Nowa Huta were invited to appear on television in the “Yesterday – Today” program to tell how it all began. So, having arrived at the great construction site of socialism, in a village called Mogila, the builders were greeted by “clay, dirt and dog housing on wet ground.” It was a difficult time. But years passed, the plant was built, a new exemplary socialist city of metallurgists grew...

Based on the play by A. N. Ostrovsky.

At one court hearing, a witness, who is engaged in prostitution, refused to take the oath, cause she didn't consider herself as a Christian. That incident caused great excitement in the hall.