Night on the Cordon

A young man follows a theatre troupe during their tour.

Anastasia Dmitrievna Vyaltseva, who performed on the opera stage, was called "incomparable" during her lifetime. Obsessed with the desire to sing, the young provincial woman arrived in St. Petersburg, joined the troupe of the musical theater of the entrepreneur Arkady Palma, married the patron of the arts Nikolai Kholev, and soon gave her first concerts. The first success, the first triumphant tour of Russia and the first losses. Her husband dies, the Russo-Japanese war begins, she goes to the front and will do everything that is the responsibility of a sister of mercy.

The sensual, aging artist Modest, seeking to test the strength of his feelings, kills Natalya Polonskaya’s husband; the young revolutionary and Natalya’s lover takes his own life; Natalya herself, along with her sister, who is also her lover, flees to Italy…

The film tells about the fate of the brilliant Russian poet Alexei Koltsov, who so romantically sang the nature of Rus', the incomparable beauty of Russian women, the incomprehensible mystery of the Russian soul.

Late-Soviet screen adaptation of the novel "A Pale Horse" by Boris Savinkov. A group of anti-tsarist revolutionary terrorists plot to assassinate the governor of a provincial town.

The film was shot on the story of Valentin Pikul “Go and do not sin”, which tells about the real events that took place in Russia at the beginning of the 20th century. The story of the young beauty Olga Palem from a poor large family is replete with tragic events. Olga's passionate disinterested love for student Alexander Zapolsky becomes her evil rock. Spoiled and selfish, Alexander is not able to appreciate her feelings. Exhausted by humiliation, a young woman kills her lover. The high-profile trial of Olga Pale becomes a sensation that stirred up the whole of Russia ...

In the center of the TV film is the image of the veteran of the Great Patriotic War, an old trackman Prokhor Timofeyevich. A chance meeting with a little boy Prosha brings joy into the life of the protagonist, who lost his wife and daughter during the war years.

The film tells about the founder of the first Russian peasant choir Mitrofan Efimovich Pyatnitskiy, about his life, tragic love and other facts of his biography. The picture reflects the musical life of Russia in the pre-revolutionary period.