The Third is Coming Handy

The film comprises three cinematic novellas: (1) “And They Arrived at the Peasant’s Hut… or the Adventures of Writer Senya in Search of the Hidden Word,” in which writer Senya draws inspiration for his rural novels from his housekeeper Yermolayevna’s tales; (2) “The Song, or How the Great Louarsab Organized a Choir,” where a city visitor attempts to form a choir of centenarian elders in a Georgian mountain village; (3) “What Is Our Life?! or What Is Our Life?!”—during a musical reenactment of pre-Revolutionary France, a drunken actor’s tardiness forces King Louis XIV (also the theater committee chairman) and the cast to improvise the play’s ending.

The youth field team of the Ukrainian collective farm comes to Moscow to participate in the All-Union competition of pop groups. The guys really want to win the first prize. They are also worried by others. At the Exhibition of Economic Achievements an experimental model of a tractor is presented, which is very necessary on their collective farm. But how to get this tractor to undergo field tests with them?

Nadya Klyueva is a single woman. Persuaded by her friend, she decides to charm her co-worker whom she doesn't really love, but who is the most popular man around.

A good girl, Luda, under the patronage of her father, works in a trade mission and studies in absentia at the Faculty of Economics of a Siberian university.

On the day of their silver wedding, the wife accused her husband of being impotent and went to another man - an Arab sheikh who suddenly turned up. The manhood of a dejected spouse is wounded and cannot be treated - but then love unexpectedly arrives...

Fyodor Stepanovich, the head of SMU, once discovered his striking resemblance to an auxiliary worker, Petya. It turns out that the latter had always been jealous of the boss and dreamed of taking his place. Fyodor Stepanovich, completely overwhelmed with work, decided to meet Petya's needs.

Vitya Glushakov is a perfect high school student. He even writes a novel about the Apache tribe. But suddenly he becomes friend with the old drinking man Arkady.

A mountain Daghestani village of our time. Though the civilization reached these places, but traditions and customs consolidated their grip on local folks minds. An old respectable mountain-dweller, a well-educated person in looks, the Palace of Culture director, a father of the young girl, who if ready for marriage, is no exception. According to the old custom a womans parents have to find a well-off groom and get bride-money. And they have an appropriate groom a respected mechanical engineer from a canning plant. But the girl destroys all their harmonious plans, falling in love with a simple driver.

An unmarried shy 40-year-old can’t find the courage to ask a woman on a date, so his womanizer friend, who promised to his friend’s parents he’d find him a girlfriend, sets out to find the perfect match.

A group of young successful women is getting robbed in the house of one of them.

Sergei Dolganov is a jack of all trades, a man of great soul and open heart. He wanders around weighing cities in search of happiness, and in all the cities where he visits, he builds fountains not for extra money, but only for beauty, in order to bring joy to himself and people. One day, fate brings him to the steppe state farm, where he meets a wonderful girl. Sergei understands that she is the one and only. But only the girl already has a gentleman, and in order to win her love, Sergei needs to try very hard.

A not-so-young man who likes women tries to organize a girl to his son.

At a popular vacation destination in Crimea every evening the entertainer Lyudmila Pashkova hosts "Where are you, talents?" - a friendly competition designed to amuse vacationers. Michael Gudkov, a vacationer from the northern Russian city of Murmansk, takes up the challenge performing his favorite song "My Female Sailor". In spite of a well-received performance the host did not award a victory to him. Feeling slighted Michael decides to compete every evening with his song until he gets his well-deserved prize becoming a favorite fixture of the local competition.

Young skaters took to the ice, the first bars of music sounded, the skaters began to perform their difficult combinations, everything seemed to be going well with them, if you look from the podium through the eyes of a journalist, but at this moment the boy, it turns out, was trying to snatch the recognition from his partner that she had been to the cinema with Petka the day before Kopytin. The partner answered him through clenched teeth that now was not the time to sort out the relationship and thus made her partner even more hot. The passion of the couple's performance was already visible to the audience in the stands. And then there's the final "todes"...