Hard Rain

The film tells about the inhabitants of the Russian city of Tsaritsyn-Stalingrad-Volgograd. The film consists of three novellas, united by the theme of love and the scene - a city on the Volga.

The heroine of the film is an employee of an automobile factory, a person with a whole generous character. Always ready to help those who need her help, she doesn't worry about how her personal life is going, but she's quite happy.

At forty-five, a writer decides to change his life and devote himself entirely to his art. Leaving behind a troubled family, he moves into an abandoned house…

Due to heavy snowfall that hit the city, aircraft flights were stopped for a day. Thousands of passengers crowded into the waiting room. Working together during this difficult shift, the previously conflicting bosses of the two shifts will evaluate each other, act in concert, and each will reconsider their professional and moral positions...

Fitil is a popular Soviet/Russian television satirical/comedy short film series which ran for about 500 episodes. Some of the episodes were aimed at children, and were called Фитилёк, Fitilyok, Little Fuse. Each issue contained from the few short segments: documentary, fictional and animated ones. Directed by various artists, including Leonid Gaidai who presented his famous trio of Nikulin, Vitsin and Morgunov into the cast. It was called in USSR as "the anecdotes from the Soviet government".

The train waitress decides not to travel around the world anymore, but to raise her son from boarding school and be with her loved one, the local theater director in native Ferzinki.

A poetic story about the first love of the village girl Natasha, loyal to the memory of the deceased fiancé. In peacetime, the heroine's fiancé blew up on a land mine that remained on the collective farm field since the war, and her life turned into a nightmare. But sooner or later, dreams end and the world opens again. Pregnant Natasha goes to the institutions, seeking to be signed with the father of the unborn child who died tragically. At the end, after long ordeals, she comes to the conclusion that writing in the marriage book will not change anything in her life.

An interesting life was lived by Ivan Krutov. He served in the Navy, was a fisherman on trawlers, and visited many countries. For the first time, having felt the approach of old age, I remembered my native village. And when he arrived, it turned out that the mother died three years ago, beloved Katerina got married and brings up his daughter. Ivan realized that he had not made a single person happy, and realizing this, he tried to start another, new life ...

Based on the short story of the same name by A.P. Chekhov.

While waiting for her first child, young teacher Masha Pavlova suddenly decides that her husband does not understand her, and therefore does not respect her interests. Having ceased to understand each other, the couple divorced. Nikolai, who once loved her but is now divorced and clearly suffering from loneliness, reappears in her life.

About a modern woman, her struggle for leadership at work and at home, as a result of which love fades and the family breaks up. She is left alone...

The film is about the hot war summer of 1944. A group of several gun crews defends a tiny bridgehead on the right bank of the Dniester. The fates of the main characters: the front-line soldier-battalion commander Babin, the young lieutenant Motovilov, the nurse Rita Tamashova and the rank-and-file gunners, soldiers, among whom are brave people, faint-hearted and scoundrels, unnoticed heroes, are shown in a setting of several hours of peaceful life before another violent attack of the enemy, after which not everyone will survive...

The dramatic chronicle of the Meshchersky family is a story about the post-revolutionary life of three representatives of the Russian intelligent family, the history of which reflected the fate of the whole generation. Life on the estate, holidays, youthful hobbies - and after the hell of a civil war, the bitterness of emigration. They held on and knew how to hide their confusion. But the pain destroyed the soul, manifesting itself in short novels that did not bring happiness and unfulfilled hopes ...

Summer 1919. After the sons of the kulaks deserted and went into the woods, in the remote Russian village of Potma there was only the old Bolshevik Matvei and a small Komsomol cell led by Sanya Yermakova. A fierce struggle begins between the Komsomol's and deserters.