Aleksandr Lebedev

A funny comedy about a kindergarten manager who tries to make all the preparations before the start of a school year.

Anatoli Kuzmich retired and received a separate apartment in a new house. He and his wife are happy and make bright plans for the future: how they will go to theaters, museums, read their favorite books. But their daughter Lyusya suddenly gets married. Not wanting to part with her, Korolyovs persuade the young spouses to live with them in a new apartment. Soon a child is born, and gradually life together becomes unbearable.

About the first builders of the city of Komsomolsk and their labor.

A young couple is traveling to the Black Sea with their car planning to have a wedding on the way.

Year 1947... Yegor Trubnikov is giving all his powers to make life in his own Kolhoz better.

Young dentist Chesnokov has a knack for painless tooth removal, much to the dismay of others, who fear unemployment and start to challenge Chesnokov.

The authors, like Isaac Babel, rejected the depiction of battles, the simplification, and varnishing of reality, instead conveying the dramatic tension of the post-revolutionary years: the explosion of awakened human energy and the tragic collisions of destinies.