Who’s That Knocking at My Door...

The wounded officer Alexei Ageev was picked up in the forest by partisans and hidden in the priest’s house. The young townswoman Maria was also hiding there. A policeman who knew everyone who lived in the village, having met Ageev, did not hand him over to the Gestapo, but invited him to become an informant...

A novella about the head of a large team working in the defense industry, a major scientist, who took the responsibility in difficult conditions to continue the failed experiments. The ensuing heart attack gave reason for his re-election, and his closest friend Astakhov, accusing Potapov of frivolity and self-rule, seeks to stop the tests. Potapov is suspended, his wife leaves him, there is a misfortune with a loved one. But he continues to work.

About one day of a large mining family. In the center of the picture is a veteran, a former miner, and now a pensioner Panteleimon Dmitriyevich Grinin, who on Victory Day decided to introduce children to his “lady of the heart” hairdresser Zinaida. The action lasts only a day, but a lot happens during this time with the sons, daughters-in-law, daughter and Zinaida...

A popular middle-aged writer is warned by a fortuneteller that he will die in exactly 24 hours. He then meets a man, who claims to be him. The writer uses this bizarre situation to change his life and take revenge.

Two people meet one another in a multi-million city...

After living half of his life, the protagonist remembers that somewhere in a provincial town lives his ex-wife and his grown-up son. He goes to a place where he is neither expected nor remembered.

In the new Russia, former middle class citizens find themselves out in the dumps. Literally. They build homes, elect their own government, work, beg, scavenge, date and fight all while living in a huge city dump. Some try to beat the odds and return to society, but it seems that there is only one place left for them to go...

Pyotr's jester Ivan Balakirev is caught up in complicated family relations of Russian emperor and palace intrigues of his court.