Let's Call Her Lisa

In November, at the very beginning of the terrible winter of 1941, when the blockade ring closes around Leningrad, a group of young iceboat athletes goes out onto the thin, not yet formed ice. The mission to deliver ammunition turns into an operation to save orphans from an orphanage who were not evacuated in time. Former rivals in regatta sports must now turn into a real united team in order to survive themselves and give hope to everyone else.

The film guides us behind the scenes of the theatre and film productions. The film and theatre actors live the lives of the made up characters on stage and on camera, while also living to the fullest off-stage. Some episodes from their real lives are funny, some are scary, but all of them are exciting to witness.

1960. There's an outbreak of smallpox in Moscow. This incurable deadly disease was considered conquered in the USSR. To fight the possible epidemic the KGB assigns colonel Shilov. He dives into the struggle at once because he has an old account to settle with smallpox. The task is to locate all those infected and stop the spread of the virus. But it is not an easy mission. The infection has spread to the underworld of the capital. Shilov must look for answers in the depths of the criminal world, unearthing its inhabitants and secrets.

Mashka and her two brothers are living in a small village located far from the big cities. Children are forced to survive: their mother died and their constantly drinking father doesn’t need them. Life goes on as usual, but the fate prepared yet another ordeal for the family.