Aleksandr Gorbatov

Follows the service of Lieutenant Colonel Lubentsov as commandant of the German city of Lauterburg in the first days after the end of the Great Patriotic War.

Andrei Buslai, a drunken, morally degraded man, accidentally ends up in the apartment of the writer Pokutovich, where he meets Alina and Dragun. Under the influence of these people with difficult fates, yet kind and honest, Andrei begins his moral awakening.

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

The action takes place in Odessa in the 1970s. Rosa, an Odessa woman, a mother and the head of the household, says goodbye to the Courtyard where her entire life unfolded, because her sons have decided to emigrate to Israel and take the elderly parents — her mother and father — with them. A staunch patriot and war veteran, Semen Margolin is ready to curse his children for such a betrayal, but with the help of his mother Rosa, he is somehow persuaded to make the move.

Based on the eponymous novel by A.I. Herzen.