Vadim Yermolayev

Stuck in a mining town near Vladivostok in 1947 amongst Soviet exiles and Japanese POWs (Japanese prisoners remained in Siberia for years after the war had ended), the kids have to come up with something to keep them busy. Two friends, Valerka and Galia, play some peculiar, very dangerous games of their own amid the man-made wasteland of Suchan.

A man died. Right near his home – he got hit by a car. On the fortieth day, his family and friends gather to honor his memory. A familiar situation – division of inheritance. Everyone is given the right to show their best and worst qualities. Not everyone gets out of this situation with honor. Suddenly, the process of division is interrupted by the arrival of the very driver under whose wheels the man died.

A television adaptation of Alexander Ostrovsky's play "Crazy Money," directed by Alexander Belinsky, the most prolific director of Leningrad television.

On the disclosure by the criminal investigation department of a crime that occurred in 1947.

A film director Nikolai Khudokormov is on the brink of his 50th anniversary. He has the whole life rich in events under his belt: creative quests, several marriages and children. Now he has to live with an old insane Mother and seems to be indifferent to what is going on around. But at the same time he is obsessed by the idea to make a film which will be his best one. Nikolai makes every effort to raise the money for this project. And all the time he is followed by a mysterious stranger. She is a beautiful young creature who speaks to him about the vanity of the world and the meaningless of a human life. Finally, Nikolai realizes that he is speaking to the Death herself.

Alexey Veryaskin, a new employee, joins the team of concrete carpenters, who left his prosperous family to take an active part in the construction of a large hydroelectric power station.