Batallions Ask for Fire

The film's protagonists are speed skaters. The competition scenes feature champions and medalists of the USSR, World, European, and Olympic championships: Ants Antson, Irina Egorova, Viktor Kosichkin, and Valentina Stenina.

The GPU secret service develops and conducts in 1923-24 an operational game aimed at the elimination of the Savinkov anti-Soviet underground.

First, there was a visit by a famous writer to his old friend, who then, in order to get rid of a random witness, killed him. Envy and money. Isn't that a motive for a crime? The police opened a criminal case, and the search for the perpetrator began. It turned out that there were many witnesses. But the weapon used to kill the writer has not yet been found...

After the navigator's death, the border combat helicopter's captain receives the task of flying to the coast to guard the border.

A story about a brave Soviet spy working behind the enemy lines during WWII.

The vacation ends, and the secretary of the regional committee, Vasily Denisov, assumes his former duties. On this day, I had to delve into the very difficult case of the old communist Chernogus, the head of the museum, who was prosecuted for possession of weapons.

People living at a seashore town are frightened by reports of an unknown creature called "the sea devil". Nobody knows what it is, but it's really the son of doctor Salvator. The doctor performed surgery on his son and now young Ichtiander can live under water. This gives him certain advantages, but also creates a lot of problems.

Senor Quexana has read so many books on chivalry that he believes that he is the knight Don Quixote de la Mancha. So Don Quixote sets off on his horse, accompanied by his squire Sancho Panza on a mule, to perform valiant deeds. They mistakenly save the Lady Altisidora who is so amused that she invites them to visit the Duke to provide some merriment at court. Among other deeds, Don Quixote frees some prisoners, who then turn upon him, and Don Quixote attacks a windmill that he imagines is a monstrous wizard.

1943 year. On the instructions of the military newspaper, the photojournalist Varvara Knyazhich goes to the front line to take some pictures of the knocked-down powerful German tank "Tiger". In a combat situation, she has to face a difficult relationship between officers and subordinates. During the execution of a journalistic assignment, Varya is literally two steps from death. But it is here that she is destined to find her love...

Mary and Ivan are working on a diamond factory. The wedding day is already set. But Ivan has a secret: during his stay in prison, the leader of the gang gave him a bag of diamonds for safekeeping. Return the "stones" factory — means to Express itself as a partner in crime, throw — sorry, but left for Mary — to destroy love. Soon the "friend" made itself felt and demanded to repay the debt…

A young sailor suddenly gets involved into a spy game between KGB and CIA.

A story of a several days of intense fighting on the Eastern Front during one of the Soviet offensives in WWII.

The Soviet intelligence officer, abandoned on the territory occupied by the Germans, finds himself in a tragic situation: high-ranking state security officials put him in the position of an outcast. However, he continues to act - at his own peril and risk ...

After getting expelled from the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts for his free-thinking ideas, young artist Kosta Khetagurov returns to his homeland of Iriston, known in Russian as Ossetia. Despite financial troubles and governmental persecution, he tirelessly advocates for the Ossetian people while honing his craft as a poet, playwright, and artist.

Two poor people, Ossetian and Ingush, are fighting each other over a meter of land in the mountains. A revolution begins, and their younger brothers become brother-friends.

The film is about the period of large-scale construction of multi-story buildings in Vladikavkaz, the work of trusts, and their competition. On the construction sites, dynasties of craftsmen worked, and the youth learned from the experience of the older generations.