Tamara Torchinskaya

A production of the State Academic Maly Theater. The film, dedicated to the memory of Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky, includes fragments of plays based on the playwright's plays: "We'll settle accounts with our own people", "Thunderstorm", "Wolves and Sheep", "The Abyss", "The Snow Maiden", "The Heart is not a Stone", "It Shines but Doesn't Warm", "Mad Money", "The Truth is Good, but Happiness is Better", and "It's not all for naught".

The daughter and her husband are trying to arrange the fate of the old man—her father. This old man has come to Moscow from a village; he suffers from loneliness and the alien city life. He gladly communicates only with the stray street birds, although he lives in a nice apartment with his daughter and son-in-law. They, in turn, to distract him from sad old-man thoughts and purely out of good intentions, decide to find him a wife and select "brides" for him. All three brides come to the meeting, and many funny situations arise because, by mistake, they all came at once. These three brides are pensioners — an eccentric former ballerina, a strict former nurse from a psychiatric hospital, and a kind-hearted mother of a family. But among these lonely elderly people, interest in each other awakens, warm relationships develop, and there is hope that something in life will change.

Based on the play of the same name by Maxim Gorky.

Based on the comedy of the same name by Tirso de Molina, staged by the State Academic Maly Theatre of the USSR. The plot is built on a number of purely theatrical conventions typical of Spanish "cloak-and-dagger" comedies.

A former front-line soldier, who worked at his post for a quarter of a century, local commissioner Lieutenant Semyon Mitrofanovich Kovalev, going to the department in the morning, was most sad that tomorrow he would no longer have to go to service: tomorrow he would be retired. But the last day of his service ended tragically.

At the center of the comedy are two neighboring families: the merchant widow Kruglova with her dowryless daughter, and the wealthy Akhov, a sixty-year-old millionaire.

Based on the eponymous play by A. Ostrovsky and N. Solovyov, directed by the State Academic Maly Theatre of the USSR.

A television performance by the Maly Theatre based on the play by A.N. Ostrovsky.