Valentin Kataev

The film is set in the 1930s in the USSR. The film tells about one day of the construction of the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works. The heroes of the film are simple construction workers who are burning at work. Upon learning that their colleagues in Kharkov have set a record, they mobilize to break it. The entire construction site was engulfed in immense socialist competition. The teams are ready to complete the work on time at any cost. A Moscow journalist who has come to cover the scale of the great construction project is looking for the hero of his report...

Soviet propaganda film about communists plotting a violent attack on a Russian city. A local poet helps the communists and they glorify his poem about Lenin.

A young Jewish woman, having received an order from the occupation authorities to report to the assembly point, goes into town with her son. They approach the ghetto, but realizing what awaits them, they leave. They wander around the city, not daring to visit their friends. Night falls. Huddled together, mother and son fall asleep on a bench. And in the morning, soldiers indifferently throw their frozen bodies into the back of a truck.

An American circus performer finds herself the victim of racism after it is revealed that she's the mother of a mixed-race child. In the midst of the public scandal, she finds happiness, love, and refuge in the USSR.

During the war years, russian soldiers pick up an orphaned boy. He refuses to go to the rear and becomes a scout, and then remains with the artillery battery. When the calculation of the battery dies in battle with the German tanks that have broken through, Vanya is sent to the Suvorov School, whose students participate in a military parade on Red Square.

Zhenya is a young girl who find a old beautiful house in the city when she followed a dog that he stole her donuts. At the old house, a old woman lives. The old woman offers to Zhenya a magic flower. When Zhenya pull up a petal of the flower, she can make a wish. In this moment, Zhenya should decide correctly her wishes.

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A funny comedy about a kindergarten manager who tries to make all the preparations before the start of a school year.

Girl named Zhenya goes berry picking with her family but struggles to find any berries. She meets an old forest spirit who offers her a magical pipe that reveals hidden berries in exchange for her jug. After realizing the pipe doesn't help her gather the berries, she learns the value of hard work and eventually fills her jug by picking the berries herself.

Two young boys strive to save the life of an officer trapped by the White Russians. Their efforts are both comic and dramatic

Young friends participate in the Odessa Bolshevik underground's activity in the pre-revolutionary years (1910-1912).

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The story of a young woman who, after her years at university in the city, returns to her hometown an engineer and begins work on a huge new power plant. She continues to supervise work on the plant throughout the war.

Leopold Pichler is a very orderly and trustworthy chief cashier who is asked by his boss to get a large sum of money from the bank which the boss urgently needs on a trip to Vienna. Due to some circumstances, getting the money takes a little longer than expected and the director leaves for Vienna without it.

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The girl Zhenya receives a wonderful gift from the sorceress - a seven-flower flower. If you tear one petal from it, you can make any wish and it will surely come true. However, there are only seven petals.

Petya meets his father from a partisan detachment in the Odessa Catacombs.

This is a film from the series of so-called "defense" films, which presents a hypothetical "scenario" of a future war. The crew of test pilot Sergei Novikov makes a long non-stop flight on an airplane of a new design. Novikov's son, Yurka, a passionate inventor, manages to contact his father using a transmitter he designed himself. Just before landing Novikov felt bad - an old leg wound, received during the Civil War, had opened. But still the pilot managed to land the plane on the airfield of the aircraft factory. After an editorial article in the newspaper Pravda, the movie was removed from the screens.

A little girl is walking around the city with a bunch of bagels. All the bagels are eaten by a dog that follows her while the little girl was looking around. The girl is upset, but she is comforted by her grandmother, who gives her a magic flower that grants wishes...

A young worker, Kukushkin, falls in love with the innkeeper's daughter and asks for her hand in marriage. Having been refused, Kukushkin begins to practice throwing rings. The day comes when the lover wins all the property of a nepman and becomes a wealthy fiancé for his beloved.