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Four directors, twenty fascinating stories, a kaleidoscope of genres from thriller to comedy. Each episode is an hour of real time that the viewer will live together with the characters of the series. An hour that will be a turning point in the fate of the characters, an hour after which nothing will be the same as before.…
"У.Е." means "условная единица" in Russian or "CU" (conventional unit) in English. A conditional unit is a euphemism used in Russia to denote a monetary amount in a foreign currency (usually US dollars) or an equivalent amount of a dollar in rubles at an official or exchange rate. The retired 50-year-old FSB colonel at his own risk and continues to investigate the case, because of which he was sent to retirement, and is drawn into a swirl of events related to the leakage of Russian capital abroad and the fight against international terrorism.
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Young unmarried Zhenya and her little son Grisha are preparing for the New Year. Grisha really hopes that Santa Claus will come to visit them. Zhenya also has a dream that sooner or later she will meet a man whom she will love and who will be her son’s father. On New Year's Eve, old friends come to Zhenya — the Ogurtsov couple and the Kalinkin couple. They noisily see off the old year, after which Zhenya tries to put her son to bed. But Grisha does not want to sleep - he was determined to wait for Santa Claus. And, to mom’s great surprise, Santa Claus comes! Although no one called him ...
The film is about a day in the life of Elizaveta Petrovna Glinka, also known as Doctor Liza. Moscow, 2012. The Glinka family prepares for a celebration: thirty years together. The closest friends are invited for dinner, the sons have arrived. Of course, Liza has freed up this day for her family. There’s just a trifle: to stop by the Fund and see the weekly patients at the Paveletsky Station. But the days of Doctor Liza are always full of surprises… In a hospital in a Moscow suburb a five-year-old girl is dying. The duty doctor has to discharge Eva. Due to medical formalities the child, who suffers from cancer, is left without painkillers. In utter despair, the girl’s father turns to Liza for help. When Liza cannot find a way to help the child within the system, she decides on a desperate act…
GRU intelligence lieutenant colonel Ilya Orlov, nicknamed "Monk", interrupted his military career after 15 years of service and... went to a monastery. However, he soon realized that non-resistance to evil was not for him and returned to worldly life, taking a job as a taxi driver.
Despite her parents' ban, 20-year-old Faina Feldman is going to conquer theatrical Moscow. The capital greets her with hostility, but Faina doesn't care much, especially since real friends and mentors appear in her life who teach, help, and patronize. Every minor success is followed by a serious life drama. Revolution, then war... and each time there is a serious struggle for life, which is based on fragile hope, a great love for the theater and absolute faith in one's own destiny.
Many people assume that life does not end after death. Not Dr. Tyrsa, practical and skeptical man, who never believed in this nonsense. However, thanks to the bowling accident, he finds himself in a desert land with people like him not belonging to this world yet not accepted into the other. Now Dr. Tyrsa realizes that the life he used to live was not so bad, and he's got something worth returning to.
On New Year’s Eve, former rock singer turned respectable housewife Vera Pavlovskaya is preparing to spend the night alone. Her husband, a celebrated film director, claims he’s busy with reshoots—but in truth, he’s run off to his young mistress. Meanwhile, well-known journalist Stefania (or Fanya) faces the prospect of ringing in the holiday with the parents of her sweet but unloved fiancé, Petya. Architect Sergey Skvortsov boards a flight from St. Petersburg to Moscow, eager to reunite with his fiancée Laura. And young librarian Bronislava, also from St. Petersburg, dreams of winning the heart of Oleg—Vera and Sergey’s son—even though he’s happily married. But as New Year’s chaos and confusion take over, none of these plans go quite as expected.
Zhenia is a Roman’s wife and they have got a son, Ilya. Sasha is Sergey’s wife but they don’t have children. Roman is a good painter by his vocation but he is a bad businessman by definition. His wife wants to succeed in a little family polygraph business. Sergey is a good entrepreneur but not a very attentive husband. And Sasha is a lonely housewife. It happened so that their families turned out neighbors. They got acquainted and Sergey offered to start a common business of printing pornographic issues. Zhenia agreed immediately but it took much time to persuade Roman. Meanwhile, the men switched their wives.
Seker is a girl who was raised as a son by a father who wanted his first child to be a boy as tradition in the countryside family demands. When Seker approaches the age of adolescence she faces a mandate from the local school: put on a dress or don't return. So finally gaining her father's permission she turns from a fist-fighting boy into a blossoming young girl.
Yana and Andrei’s marriage is falling apart. Andrei, a photographer, leaves on a business trip, and she secretly follows him. His body is found in one of the restroom stalls on the St. Petersburg–Moscow train. The investigation suggests that Andrei hanged himself. The question remains: why did a man who seemed to have it all take his own life?
One day, Artyom, a Moscow schoolboy who is passionate about computer games and the latest technologies, discovers the magical world of the circus. Despite his mother's prohibitions, the boy once again sacrifices sleep for sitting in front of the monitor and becomes the hero of a computer game. Now Artyom and his classmates will have to complete an exciting quest, face the intrigues of a virtual circus, save gymnast Agatha and escape from the evil magician-trickster Fortunatus themselves. Real life will also present the young heroes with a number of challenges that the children will have to cope with without the help of their parents.…
Vera and Tim are successful young professionals. Everything changes one night when Tim hits a young Kalmyk immigrant to Moscow, Uloomji, with his car. The two men begin a affair while Vera struggles to comprehend their bond and her boyfriend's erratic behavior. She is dragged reluctantly into a love triangle.
