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Living together in a workers' dorm, Katerina and her friends are determined to make it in Moscow. But when a boorish cameraman forces himself on her, Katerina finds herself pregnant and alone as her friends move on. Twenty years later, Katerina is a factory director, outpacing her old roommates career-wise, yet still alone but for her daughter. Love seems possible again when she meets a genial mechanic.
A famous singer is going through the dark period of her life...
After the arrest of her husband (an “enemy of the people” in 1938), she returned with her children to her native village. But after some time she was arrested, the children were taken to different shelters, leaving only the eldest one in the village...
Adult cartoon based on the Greek mythology.
Cossacks Kol'ka and Zarubin travel to Moscow to buy an ox. Their trip turns chaotic when a local witch seduces Kol'ka and replaces his brown eyes with blue ones. The pair must fight against a supernatural underworld to get his original eyes back.
1918. Workers from Petrograd come to Altai region to establish the first agricultural commune. In spite of the hostility of the local White Army cossacks the workers build houses, cultivate land. The poor peasants are turning towards the commune. However, White Army cossacks take vengeance on the members of the commune.
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Soviet documentary about customs and nature of the people's Republic of Mali
Small group of Armenian construction workers leave for Siberia to earn money. They enter into complex and uneasy relations with the local Siberians
A propaganda film about the fate of a peasant son Kostya.
The orphanage's pupils are sent by the district Komsomol committee to eliminate illiteracy in the remote village of Penki.
The action takes place during the great Patriotic war. Nurse Maret considered the Director of the clinic a decent person, although he tries to remain politically neutral in relation to the occupiers. One day, a severely wounded Communist underground worker, Thomas, was admitted to the clinic. After performing a complex operation, the doctor restored his life. Nurse Maret was nursing a patient. But then the doctor hands Thomas over to the Gestapo. Outraged patients angrily condemn the doctor's action.
A group of ten years old is getting ready to a sea travel...
Based on the eponymous short story by I. Bunin.
There were three sisters — Vera, Nadezhda and Lyubov. Vera, having survived unhappy love, goes to the monastery, where she gives birth to a child. The child dies, Vera commits suicide. Lyuba and grandmother attend church and maintain relations with priest Aleksandr. To Nadezhda that condemns their religiosity, it seems that Lyuba is in love with father Aleksandr. She comes home to him and demands that he stop dating Lyuba. However, it turns out that Aleksandr is in love with Nadezhda. Knowing him better, she reciprocates him, facing a difficult choice, Aleksandr breaks with religion.
Few months before collapse of USSR. Villages and collective farms are facing with problem: young and working age people leaving countryside for better life in cities. Same problem in collapsing collective farm near Moscow - the only mechanic and harvester driver decides to leave his native village because he feels deeply offended for being severely punished for breakdown harvester. But his countrymen disagree with his decision and try to prevent his escape.
When Vasilisa was still small, the black sorcerer brought her mother an ominous gift - a chest with an enchanted wedding dress. Putting it on, Vasilisa could make a wish, and it would certainly be fulfilled. Once the girl was jealous of the blacksmith Ivan, and his eyes stopped seeing. Vasilisa had to pass the tests and strictly fulfill the sorcerer's order in order to restore sight to Ivan.
Vasily Kapluntsev, a burgher, died suddenly. Experts found poison in his body, and now his young wife Maria Kapluntseva is accused of murder. The main witness at the trial is the Kapluntsevs' neighbor, Vasily's friend and Maria's lover.
Oleg Norov, the coach of a soccer team, realizes that the matches are held according to the scheme of "secret totalizator" and decides to break the rules of the game not established by him. Self-investigation, which the coach starts, leads him to a fraudster nicknamed "Man Mountain".