Own Cross

Alexei Yuryev chose the profession of literature teacher largely under the influence of his uncle, the actor Alexander Vasnetsov. The difficulties he faced at the vocational school could find their resolution when he met with his uncle, with whom he corresponded. However, the meeting brought only disappointment. All the truths of the actor turned out to be just elements of the game. The idol is debunked, the bride leaves Yuryev to the artist, and the teacher himself on the verge of collapse. But a student appears, believing in the high ideals of her teacher - and life begins to make sense.

Fyodor Mozzhukhin, having worked for several years on different construction sites of the country, returned to his native village and organized a team of mechanics working on a contract basis in the collective farm. Immediately critics of the new organization of labor were found, slackers and envious people were revealed. The village woke up from hibernation.

Grandfather and grandson live in one apartment. Grandson is a student, and grandfather is a former security officer who spent time in the camps. Out of love for his grandfather, the grandson preserves the situation of perpetual interrogation, inviting “clients” from time to time ...

The love story of Fedor, the village chauffeur and Mari, a local school teacher.

Three novellas based on M. Sholokhov's early stories about the first years of the formation of Soviet power on the Don. (1) “Koloverť”. Two Cossack brothers and their elderly father fight for the Bolsheviks, but when only Ignat and his father return to their White-held stanitsa, their third brother betrays them, sealing their fate by handing them over for execution. (2) “Chervotočina”. Idealistic Stepan joins the Komsomol against his wealthy Cossack family’s wishes, but when two oxen he lends to a poor neighbor vanish, his enraged father and brother beat both Stepan and the neighbor to death. (3) “Prodkomissar”. Commissar Ignat Bodiagin is charged with requisitioning grain for the Red Army, only to find his own father condemned for hoarding; he must preside over his execution and soon dies himself leading the resisting Cossacks away from the grain convoy.

Test pilot Ivan Gribov was seriously wounded in battle, captured, and escaped from the camp. He returned to his city after the war and found out that his wife had buried him, got married and was living well. He stopped flying, got married, and tried not to think about the sky...

Actor Barkhanov is hired as a bodyguard for a very rich person in this criminal comedy from mid-nineties.

Miner Yegor Ikonnikov comes to the South, hoping to have a good rest and, as they say, to unwind. The meeting with Sonya was the beginning of a serious love that changed the life of Yegor and a married woman who at first did not take Yegor seriously.

The young scientist has everything - an apartment, a car, a position in the scientific community, but his soul is as if immersed in hibernation. And only the death of his mother and a meeting with his matured daughter, who had her first and unrequited love, awaken his soul, which has fallen into lethargy.