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It has become commonplace: fools and roads are Russia's main disaster. Clever, but petty. We must finally look at the root of all evil. The first age-old trouble is power. The second, equal in size, is the people.

Agricultural technical school graduate Valya Didenko, having become a production leader and then a people's deputy, fell in love with her patron - the chairman of the collective farm. However, happiness was not destined to happen. Having deliberately violated long-outdated instructions, the chairman was accused of fraud and brought to trial.

Lena, a woman in her late twenties, loves her boyfriend, but in time comes to see that their relationship serves no useful function. What's more, she sees that her friends are for the most part empty-headed lackeys, causing her to wonder just what is the point of her life.

Wedding in a provincial seaside town. In the midst of the fun criminal authority Tourist begins to molest the bride, which infuriates the groom — merchant seaman. The bandits and the police decide to plant a sailor, but he runs away and on his quest sent the police, killers, relatives and different people.

Stories about the past often revolved around lost manuscripts and rare books.

Two men are searching for a woman between the shipwrecking accident victims.

In the courtyard of a convent run by Mother Ekaterina, a dozen people are trying to build a new life. Young novitiate Olga is a simple soul, honest and loving. When a troublemaker enters the community, Olga trusts him immediately, and things get complicated.

The main character is an Opel Astra car. The car has become an integral part of every person's life. In the short stories the characters work and rest together with the Opel Astra, meet, get to know each other and fall in love, quarrel and make peace.

Love and death. The 1992-1993 war, which in Abkhazia is called the Patriotic War, ended long ago, but the small sovereign unrecognized state is unable to overcome the military syndrome. I want love so much! In the mountain village of Achandara, Lavrik Akhba, an actor of the Abkhaz drama theater, captain of the second rank of the border fleet and a farmer, is trying to help his friend Tuta find a bride through a dating site. But suddenly he himself, a war hero, a lover of books and women, is covered with love of such strength that it turns out to be more destructive than that terrible last war.

An almost unknown girl Frida accompanied Aleksandr Volodin to the front. When he returned, he married her. A sense of duty and gratitude bound them, but this did not prevent him from continuing to search for a female ideal... The name of the poet and playwright Aleksandr Volodin is familiar to everyone who loves russian cinema and theater. The films Elder Sister, Five Evenings, The Magician, Autumn Marathon, the famous performances of the Tovstonogov's BDT and Efremov's Sovremennik, staged according to his plays, were remembered for their unique intonation, the soft, not at all edifying voice of a person who knows something about life that we pass by without noticing. Most of Volodin's works are autobiographical, he writes about his generation, about the generation "scorched by war".

In VGIK, she was a student of the workshop of Sergei Gerasimov and Tamara Makarova, and watched Godard's "Last Breath" and thought, nothing more is needed. Everything is already there. But, in the end, without her, without her 22 films, the history of world cinema would be incomplete. In our country, her name has become one of the undisputed geniuses-Tarkovsky, Parajanov, Herman, Sokurov. The brilliant Kira Muratova looks at a person with irony, as if from a distance and from above, as if at a funny puppet theater, but her gaze is full of sympathy. It divides artists into two categories: preachers and gamblers. Of course, he considers himself one of the latter. Chance is her muse. Improvisation is a feature of the method. And what is life but improvisation? In contrast to Rene Clair with his phrase " my film is ready. It remains only to remove it", goes to the set, opening up to life, the game of chance.

Possibly the strangest prison movie ever. It's not about the Gulag, it's not about human rights, it's not even about crime. It’s more than that. This is a philosophical film about the mystery of a man. About the inseparable connection between the sinners and the righteous: the murderer, the former prosecutor Vyacheslav Sharaevsky, and his intercessor, the rector of the church of Cosmas and Damian in Moscow, father Alexandr Borisov.

Grigory Pomerantz did all the war from 1941 to 1945, roamed the Stalingrad circle, was in all the hottest battles, went all the way to Berlin. His observations and reflections on the meaning of war and man caught in the war are shocking. Nobody had thought of this way in the Great Patriotic War.

A paradoxical personality, former police captain Magomed Shamilov is a hero, a sage and a devout Muslim. 16 years ago, he created an Independent trade union of Police and Prosecutor's Office workers in Dagestan to fight cronyism, terrorism, corruption in the "hottest" region of Russia, and he is surprised that he is still alive. Don Quixote is immortal.

Wise men of different faiths called the same bird by different names, says Grigory Pomerants, a unique thinker of our era. This bird flew to him at the time of the death of his beloved woman.