The North Variant

An armed attack on cash messengers is undertaken near a trade center in a small provincial town, an agent of Ministry of Internal Affairs dies in crossfire. A crime investigator major Rovnin (V. Kuznetsov), who appeared to be a close friend of the deceased, comes from Moscow to assist in the investigation. He is astonished at how savagely his friend was shot, as if someone was revenging. Local investigating bodies are convinced that they can manage this and arent too satisfied with the arrival of Moscow expert. They try to handle this as soon as possible, even at the cost of mistake. But the majors task is to find the killer, in spite of the fact that he is left nothing but to hold the investigation by himself.

Having the opportunity to devote himself to science, the film’s protagonist, the talented engineer Kuzmin, stays on to work in production. Facing bureaucracy and careerism, the main character overcomes all obstacles on the way to achieving his goals...

A life of a driver Stephan Chekmenev turns out to be very lucky: healthy children, loving wife, solid loghouse. But once his fellow-villager perishes in a forest. And Chekmenev, considering himself to be the one to blame, in expectation of an imminent retribution, tries to understand: why and when did he, once having so many friends, become so indifferent towards other peoples lives.

The film is set during the construction of a gas pipeline. The plot revolves around a conflict between the builders and the designers.

A young graduate of a Musical teacher's training school, having got an allocation to one of the collective farms of Nonblack Soil Zone, she goes there with one desire return to city as soon as possible and continue her career of pop singer. Villagers are rejoiced by arrival of a new club head, and do all their best to make her stay: give good lodging, telephone, color TV-set, and even accordion. And the farms head (B.Nevzorov) is not intended to let her go before the set date, moreover, he falls in love with her. A skeptical modern city girl, mixing with villagers and step-by-step delving into their routine life and chores, gets filled with local beauties and engulfing feeling towards a young farms head, starts hesitating.

A doctor from Poland is looking for his sister who got missing in the USSR during WWII.

Engineer Yusupov from the Research Institute of Automation, the project manager, once comes to the conclusion that his project is outdated. The hero finds another, truly innovative solution and starts the work anew, although not everyone agrees with his bold decision.

A film-concert dedicated to the anniversary of the State Northern Russian Folk Choir.

The film concert "Ural Rowanberry" is a musical story about the beauty of our native land, the generosity of our soul, and the inexhaustible power of our folk traditions. Lyrical songs and lively accordion dances come to life, round dances swirl, Cossack chants flow, and behind them, the enchanting landscapes of Russian nature unfold. Each melody is a new scene, each dance a vibrant episode, each performance a living story filled with warmth, sincerity, and love for our native land. The artistry, the colorful…

A young engineer, Anvar Timbikov, joins the trust headed by Arslan Gubaidullin. He is the son of Karim Timbikov, Arslan's teacher and rival, and the woman he loved throughout his life. This meeting prompted Arslan to reminisce about how, in the 1950s, after serving in the army, he came to work at a drilling rig. He witnessed the development of Tatar oil. A large modern city has grown on the site of the village... Now, Anvar will continue his path and his work.

Demobilized Sergei Vokhmintsev returns to Moscow and enrolls in a university. His father is arrested based on a slanderous denunciation. The hero himself, as the son of an “enemy of the people,” is expelled from the party and the university...

A drama based on the play *Ivan* by G. Nikitin and O. Pyzhova. Demidova, the principal of a rural vocational school, does everything in her power to raise her students to be well-rounded individuals. Sincerely devoted to her work, she nevertheless does not want to see her son among the vocational school’s students, but he enrolls in the school anyway. At the suggestion of Ivan, Demidova’s son, the future livestock farmers take on the task of helping a struggling farm...

A historical and biographical film about the life of M.V. Frunze. The film covers the period from 1915 to 1916. The film is dedicated to one of the most mysterious episodes in Mikhail Frunze’s life, when in 1915 he escaped from a transit prison. The gendarme officers failed to identify the dashing fugitive — a brilliant nobleman named Vasilenko — who, after the Civil War, became a dangerous opponent to the rising Joseph Stalin.