Sergey Grebennikov

Белорусские новеллы

Little Bugger

Bolshevik Foma Korshunov returns to his village. Soon his son, seven-year old Mishka gets a new nickname - "little communist". When bandits come to the village Mishka, knowing that the reds are close, saddles his horse and hurry to warn them about the danger.

The Adventures of Corporal Kochetkov

Gunner-gunner Corporal Vasily Kochetkov meets Valya Gradskaya, a saleswoman at the military trade center, and becomes a frequent guest in her family. He soon realizes that the girl and her grandmother are spies. Kochetkov informs the command of his suspicions and is given the task of continuing to play the role of the groom.

Heavy Water

The film tells about the difficult and dangerous everyday life of submarine officers in love with their profession during the Cold War.

Three Hours on the Road

A toboggan train is coming to the village from the construction site of a drilling rig: a tractor pulling a carriage on a snowy track. It's blizzarding, fuel is running out, the train gets off track, and the construction manager is in a bad mood: his wife has recently died of a heart attack, leaving behind a teenage son who is here. But the worse the weather gets, the warmer the relationship between the people. And help comes.

The Hockey Players

Thirty-year-old captain of the hockey team Duganov, a famous and experienced player, decides to fight for the sporting longevity of "old men" like him. Acutely experiencing a quarrel with his favorite girl, Duganov achieves participation in the decisive final match between the two strongest teams and achieves victory.

The Slowest Train

Spring, 1943. A military train is heading from a city, just liberated from the fascists. A special carriage with divisional printing-works is hitched to the train. Manager of the printing-works and correspondent expects he will travel alone, and even makes a prudent sign on the door - mines. But gradually the carriage starts to get filled with uninvited fellow travelers. The first were an injured soldier with a girl, then - a pregnant woman with escort, two communist party members, an actress, aunt Pasha, and others. The correspondent has nothing but to put up with it, because he cant turn out people, who suffer from the war, each in his/her own way.

Two Days of Wonders

Father and son exchange the bodies using the help of two student fairies.