The Gamblers: XXI

A film almanac consisting of two short stories, united by a common idea of the need to maintain harmony between private and public interests: “Suite” and “One Fine Day”. The hero of the story ”Suite" is a lifeguard on the shore. The events taking place at sea do not bother him at all. To the music of Bizet, he dreams of Carmen, her exploits, valor and strong love... The hero of the short story “One Fine Day”, a promising researcher, one morning saw a spaceship from his balcony. Do this a little restlessly to his mother-in-law, neighbors, acquaintances, boss and, finally, to a psychiatrist...

After WWII is over, a young officer Volodya Sharapov returns to Moscow to work in MUR - Moskovskiy Ugolovny Rozysk (Moscow Criminal Police). There he meets Gleb Zheglov who is a chief of a squad which fights organized crime. Their main task is to track down a gang "Chernaya Koshka" (Black Cat) which terrorizes the city. Also, they have to find out who murdered Larisa Gruzdeva. Zheglov believes it was her husband Ivan Gruzdev, but Sharapov has his doubts about it...

Summer of 1945. The salute of the Great Victory died down and the country is gradually returning to peaceful life. From "fire yes into the fire" a young reconnaissance commander Volodya Sharapov falls, having come to the MUR for distribution, to the department for combating banditry. In the city the Black Cat gang rages, terrifying Muscovites. Captain Gleb Zheglov enters the fray with the bandits, for whom Sharapov soon becomes his right hand.

A story of Igor Kurchatov - a father of Soviet nuclear weapons.

The man does everything to protect the still chaste population from the corrupting influence of consumer society.

In a remote Siberian village, a work injury sends Vasily Kuziakin on a paid trip to a Black Sea resort as compensation. There, he meets femme fatale Raisa Zaharovna and decides to stay with her. Such is the beginning of a new life for him, exciting and strange, but lacking his home, his wife and children, and his pigeons.

A movie about a little man - a little funny and a little sad - a Latino businessman, owner of a loss-making shop. And about a big moral problem. A child has fallen down a deep well. He's alive, but it's almost impossible to get him out. What is more dignified: to honestly say that the child is alive but already dead or to repeat for everyone the mantra "he will certainly be rescued now"? And how to live on, if in the heat of an argument, bet on "will not be saved".

Small, hunchbacked and unlucky, Zadoc dreams of finding love. Chased from his village, he is propelled towards the unknown.

In early 20th-century Azerbaijan, two circus artists travel to a village where one of them was born, unaware of the danger and adventure that await them.

The film is based on the eponymous book, written by two former street gangsters - Grigori Belykh and Leonid Panteleyev. Film is set in the 1920s St. Petersburg, Russia. Streets of the city are full of the homeless boys. They are caught to be raised and educated at the correction school named after Dostoevsky. The boys are street smart and difficult. But the faculty stands up to the challenge. The teaches are being devoted and caring, and gradually win the respect of the most difficult kids. The school director Vicknixor is a refined intellectual, who becomes a role model for the boys.

A funny comedy about doctor Aybolit and his assistants and patients - all animals.

The film tells the story of a member of the Polish underground who acted as a courier during World War II and whose most prominent mission was to inform the Allied powers of Nazi crimes against the Jews of Europe in an effort to prevent the Holocaust.

The noble patrician Gaius Marcius became famous for his military exploits and victories over the enemies of the Romans, the Volscians. However, his hatred of the plebeians and thirst for power led to Coriolanus being condemned to eternal exile from Rome. Then he decided to betray his homeland and take command of the Volscian army.

Edwin and Miss Rosa were engaged since childhood. While nothing foreshadows the impending tragedy, the lovers are carefree, the inhabitants of a small English town watch their romance. Edwin Drood and Ne, who arrived from Ceylon, did not help their rivals in the region because of Rosa's mission. Edwin and Rosa decide to remain only friends. However, the conflict with Neville becomes more acute. The rivals go to the lake shore for a decisive conversation. After that, Edwin disappears without a trace. The trail of Edwin disappears, and the suspect in his murder is Neville. Released from prison for lack of a straight street, he leaves the city. Edwin's guardian Jasper continues his independent search for the killers. At the moment, a "lonely bachelor living on his own means" comes to town. He also conducts his own investigation. The investigation of Jasper and the mysterious stranger is coming to an end, but...

Based on Pushkin's "Little Tragedies" ("The Miserly Knight", "Mozart and Salieri", "The Stone Guest", "A Feast in the Time of Plague").