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“Polyglot” is an educational program on the television channel “Kultura” that presents an intensive foreign-language learning course led by polyglot and translator D. Yu. Petrov. Students are offered the opportunity to master communication skills in a foreign language within 16 lessons.
In May 1941, Major General Golovko, commander of the Soviet Northern Fleet in the Murmansk region of the Soviet Arctic, foresaw the imminent outbreak of war and ordered the training of future special operations personnel for enemy rear operations at naval bases. Civilian female Martha was also invited to the base for training due to her excellent shooting skills. On June 22nd, the Patriotic War broke out, and the German army built a shore artillery position on the Norwegian coast, seriously threatening the safety of Soviet ships and Allied Soviet aid fleets entering and exiting the port of Murmansk. The Golovko pirates ordered the assault team to destroy the German shore artillery position and control it in the hands of the Soviet army. Martha and the assault team embarked on the journey.
A restaurant in Moscow is forced to shut shop after they end up ruining a crucial political dinner involving the president. The entire team then decides to relocate to Paris to redeem themselves.
Mara is a former stripper, spectacular and far from the stupidest. She will soon turn 30, and from this she is experiencing an acute crisis of self-realization. To prove to others, and first of all to herself, that she is capable of something more than exposing herself in public for money, Mara decides to become a businesswoman. She begs her long-time sponsor Yuryich to give her the management of a beauty salon, but he has other plans for her. Eventually, Mara becomes the manager of a small and run-down car wash on the outskirts of the city. Will she be able to settle into a new role for herself and lift a decaying business from the bottom?
The three main characters of “Stepney” are the manic hipsters of the future, the golden youth. In order to catch the crowd, they decide to cut the way through dysfunctional neighborhoods - and get into fantastic Gopnik. “God is out of the car” in the guise of a busted Moscow taxi driver of the old school saves the heroes and their taxi.
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Belarus, summer 1942. The war has moved on, far off to the east. The life of a small town where the German authorities of the region have set themselves up is getting back to "normal". The Germans study Russian, flirt with the local girls, the women wash their clothes and feed them. They have to carry on somehow... But suddenly the teenage son of the film's heroine decides to run away to the partisans and blows up a German train so that they could accept him. He gets caught and the Germans have to execute him in order "to teach others a lesson". That's the order and it can't be disobeyed. The Germans know that this execution will bring an end to their peaceful lives. The local commandant understands this better than anyone as he is already involved in a close relationship with the boy's mother. But he can't ignore an order from his commanders...
Early 20th century, Paris. Mr. X, a mysterious circus performer never seen without a mask, stirs hearts and stirs rumors in Parisian society. The beautiful Theodora, a young, wealthy widow, is the envy of all high society. To win the heart of this brilliant socialite, circus talent alone is not enough. And does her love really matter to someone who has chosen solitude and decided to hide their face forever behind a mask?
In the center of the lyrical and dramatic narrative is the frontline fate of one of the millions of ordinary soldiers of the Great Patriotic War - sapper Fedor Chaklun and his four-legged assistant - a specially trained sheepdog named Rumba. With the help of Rumba Fedor discovers a mined section of the road and warns about it senior in rank - junior lieutenant Svetlana. But the girl, carried away by flirtation with the lieutenant colonel, forgets to block the road, and a Soviet tank explodes on the mine. Fyodor, in love with Svetlana, takes the blame...
