Mikhail Shishkov

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.

To save her family from disgrace and hunger, a young dowerless girl gets married to a rich old man, only to turn into an unscrupulous kept woman who forgets her close ones.

An old woman from Caucasian Mountains goes to the front line do give her sons weapons of their ancestors.

Gypsies steal a large shipment of drugs worth $40,000,000 from the mafia and kill a drug courier. In response, the bandits kidnap the daughter of the gypsy baron Alan, little Rose, and forcibly put her on a needle. Alan's revenge is inevitable and merciless. But will he be able to get to the godfather of the drug syndicate Victor.

Russian nobleman Fyodor Ivanovich Lavretsky returns to his estate after years in Paris, only to fall in love with his young cousin Liza, complicating his already troubled marriage and leading to a tragic, emotionally complex romance.

After the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917. A Russian engineer gets the assignment to purchase locomotives from Sweden. Paid in gold. Claimed by the opponents of the revolution.