Lyubov Rudenko

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 Fool is a movie about a simple plumber. An honest man, he is up against an entire system of corrupted bureaucrats. At stake are the lives of 800 inhabitants of an old dorm that is at risk of collapsing within the span of the night.

Olga is almost forty, and she has long stopped believing in fairy tales about the prince. The three daughters decide to restore their mother's faith in a miracle and arrange the holiday she dreamed of.

A Russian criminal steals a giant diamond from the Mafia, hides it, and suddenly runs into his unknown brothers; unexpected, absurd events with participation of the mob, doctors, musicians, Americans, militia, and gypsies ensue.

Nadya was widowed young and raised two children on her own. Long ago she gave up hope of finding personal happiness, and now it seems even more impossible — she is already a grandmother. Nadya works in a flower shop, where Lyonya, her peer and also a widower with two grown children, often stops by. For his young lover, it is Nadya who prepares the beautiful bouquets. One day, however, Lyonya catches his girlfriend with another man. Disillusioned, he firmly decides never again to get involved with younger women. Instead, he chooses something unexpected: he proposes to Nadya. Nadya is bewildered. She knows Lyonya does not truly love her, and his children oppose the marriage. Yet for her, this might be the last chance at personal happiness — and she decides to take it.

The naive hero, having read clever books, marries a prostitute with the aim of re-educating her and collides with the famous Sergei Eisenstein, ending in the most unexpected and fatal way...

The lovers are already over forty. Each of them has children who represent two warring factions. The situation is banal as in Shakespeare, but not dramatic in the Shakespearean way, although it evokes pity for the parents who have passed away.