Evgeniy Leonov-Gladyshev

A railway engineer tells the story of when he seduced a married woman whom he'd known since she was a schoolgirl, and how after convincing her he loved her he cruelly abandoned her.

The story about a very small god-forgotten village in Siberia reflects the history of Russia from the beginning of the century till the early 1980s. Three generations try to find the land of happiness and to give it to the people. One builds the road through taiga to the star over horizon, the second 'build communism' and the third searches for oil.

Bolshevik coup. Dying, old Bulyga decided to reconcile his sons, whose paths had diverged at the beginning of the revolution. That's why he called them. But the meeting of his brothers did not make him happy - they were deeply harboring enmity against each other. They buried their father. As soon as they left the village, a detachment broke into the village and began to rampage. And then the brothers rushed after the gang....

St. Petersburg. Winter of 1917, the eve of the February Revolution. The maid finds in the room the corpse of the murdered tenant. In his pocket, a hotel account was found in the name of Karl Fischer, a well-known banker. An investigation is beginning. In the list of suspects - an agent of the secret police...

Summer of 1945. The salute of the Great Victory died down and the country is gradually returning to peaceful life. From "fire yes into the fire" a young reconnaissance commander Volodya Sharapov falls, having come to the MUR for distribution, to the department for combating banditry. In the city the Black Cat gang rages, terrifying Muscovites. Captain Gleb Zheglov enters the fray with the bandits, for whom Sharapov soon becomes his right hand.

A criminal story which started when a young bartender Mikhail lost all his money and decided to robe a private diamonds collection.

One of the mountain passes of Tajikistan, which is an important strategic object, is controlled by the Basmati detachment of Kurbashi Kerim Dodho, who is respected by the people. The head of the OGPU Paramonov, in order to avoid bloodshed, convinces Kurbashi of the expediency of holding peace talks. However, the counterrevolutionary group, which has its own people in the militia units, is trying to interfere with the negotiations between Paramonov and Dodho, a Bolshevik sympathizer.

"Male students are not allowed to enter the female dormitory." This sign hangs at the entrance, but the men's still climb into the Windows. Seeing this craving for beauty, the authorities of the provincial town decided to improve the financial situation by opening a brothel, while maintaining the chastity of the fairer sex…

A military dictator in a fictional country, modeled on early-1970s Chile, has risen from butcher to junta leader but now, isolated and distrustful, confides only in his guard Manuel. Manuel, who once shared the dictator’s humble origins, betrays him without hesitation when a popular uprising topples the regime and personally kills him.

1920. Russian Civil War. Operation of GubCheka (Soviet police) to destroy one of the bands in Ukraine.

A story of a young cadets of Suvorovsky army school - based on Boris Iziumskii novel.

Главный герой, которого все зовут просто Санечка, плывет по течению. Работы нет, жена ушла… Единственное, чего у него в избытке, — это верные друзья и природный дар относиться ко всем проблемам легко и беззаботно. Однажды Александр попадает в аварию — на своей машине он врезается в джип бизнесмена. Но надо же было такому случиться, что как раз в тот момент, когда это произошло, коммерсанта собирался застрелить киллер. Предприниматель был уже на мушке, и Санечка просто спас ему жизнь! А дальше закружило, понесло. Незадачливому актеру предлагают за большие деньги сыграть роль олигарха. По странному совпадению Санечка как две капли воды похож на человека, за которого должен себя выдавать. Вжившись в образ, Александр понимает, что существование «крутых» совсем не так безоблачно, как кажется со стороны. В конце концов он сам оказываеся под прицелом киллера. Но ему снова приходит на помощь его величество Случай!

The story is about a young fisherman, a pupil of an orphanage, who, due to a curious accident, ends up on the fishing trawler "Dauria" and, thanks to his open and kind character, quickly becomes part of a friendly family of fishermen.

Only the old men and the young Baranov family remained in the village of Martyamovo. Tatiana, the owner of the house, did not want to leave her native place, and her husband Sanya, when he found out that the village was officially declared unpromising, was delighted and began to dream of urban life. Tatiana decided not to keep Sanya and gave him complete freedom...

A story about newlyweds Natasha and Gleb, who are spending their honeymoon on a hiking trip.

Kolya Chimbartsev arrived at the boarding school of the port of Krasin from distant Odesa. He is to be met by his hydrologist father. But he has not returned from the scientific station located on the ice floe and has not made radio contact. Kolya and his new friends decide to go on the air themselves through the school radio station. Having broken the device and wanting to delay punishment, the guys are going to the movies. But when they hear a warning about a storm, they hide under the bed and fall asleep, leaving, however, a note that they are going to the movies. An alarm is sounded in the village: the children have gone out in the blizzard...

Young men left for the construction of a new city in Siberia. The film is about friendship and the first hard tests of a man's character.

A first episode in the trilogy about the Russian partisan's resistance against the Nazi occupation of Russia during WWII. The film is set in August of 1941, when the Nazi forces invaded and occupied the European part of Russia. Major Mlynsky is in charge of the special group of partisans. His group is absorbing other small groups of Russian soldiers, who managed to survive from the attacks of the overwhelming Nazi forces. The Nazi Armies are advancing to Moscow. Major Mlynsky is organizing the Russian partisan's resistance against the Nazis, behind the enemy lines.

Divorced Maria and married Ofelia work as ladies' masters in a Moscow hairdressing salon. Ofelia often complains to her friend about her philandering husband. Maria has no one to complain about - she lives alone and is not bored. To reconcile Ophelia and her husband, Maria often visits Ivan at the zoo, where he works as a zookeeper, and gradually becomes attached to him. The sedate and positive Maria has much more in common with Ivan than the capricious and flighty Ophelia.

The movie takes us back to the times of the Civil War, when the young Soviet power was defended by the first heroes of this terrible internecine war. Red commanders Semyon Budyonny and Kliment Voroshilov managed to gather an entire army of "red cavalrymen" - thus began the history of the campaigns "through valleys and up hills" of the legendary First Cavalry Army.

A young taxi driver comes across a profitable business: to drive a new Volga to the Caucasus. Having deceived his boss, he arranges for a few days at his own expense and goes on a trip. On the way, risking his life, he saves a bus with children from a disaster, but at the same time the Volga receives serious damage.

Valentina, Anastasia, Polina and Rita are women from four different generations. Each of them solves their life problems in their own way, seeks love, builds a career, struggles with disappointments and learns to be happy despite the difficulties they have to overcome. They are united by friendship, work and problems that are close to any woman.

Russian Empire. The second decade of the twentieth century. As a result of the conflict between the Entente and the bloc of the Central Powers led by Germany, which erupted in August 1914, Russia is drawn into the First World War. A wave of unrest is rolling through the country. Revolutionary moods are increasing every day. Counterintelligence is trying with all its might to suppress the activity of German spies active in the territory of the country ...

After WWII is over, a young officer Volodya Sharapov returns to Moscow to work in MUR - Moskovskiy Ugolovny Rozysk (Moscow Criminal Police). There he meets Gleb Zheglov who is a chief of a squad which fights organized crime. Their main task is to track down a gang "Chernaya Koshka" (Black Cat) which terrorizes the city. Also, they have to find out who murdered Larisa Gruzdeva. Zheglov believes it was her husband Ivan Gruzdev, but Sharapov has his doubts about it...

The series tells about how police officers, investigating the case of robberies and murders in hotels, managed not only to neutralize, but also to expose major plunderers of socialist property.

The Odesa boys, Petya Bachey and Gavrik Chernoivanenko, are brave and resourceful, finding themselves at the centre of early 20th-century events leading to the October Revolution. They are joined by adult characters like sailor Rodion Zhukov, Petya’s father Vasily, Madame Storozhenko, and Gavrik’s grandfather. As they grow, they experience the revolution, civil war, and become underground fighters during WWII in occupied Odesa.

A story of a young cadets of Suvorovsky army school.