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KVN is a Russian humour TV show and competition where teams compete by giving funny answers to questions and showing prepared sketches. The programme was first aired by the First Soviet Channel on November 8, 1961. Eleven years later, in 1972, when few programmes were being broadcast live, Soviet censors found the students' impromptu jokes offensive and anti-Soviet and banned KVN. The show was revived fourteen years later during the Perestroika era in 1986, with Alexander Maslyakov as its host. It is one of the longest-running TV programmes on Russian Television. It also has its own holiday on November 8, the birthday of the game, which KVN players celebrate every year since it was announced and widely celebrated for the first time in 2001.
Victor Gromov, once a legend of Moscow’s criminal underworld known under the nickname “Butcher”, has since retired and now spends his days enjoying life on his farm. One day, Victor’s former “colleagues” show up and tell him that he must store the mafia’s common fund in his offshore bank account. Victor has no choice but to help them. Several months later, on the day when he is supposed to give the money back, Victor gets hit on the head by a falling billboard. As a result, he forgets the password to his bank account. Fleeing for his life from his former cronies, Victor decides to hide in a freight train’s boxcar but ends up getting locked inside. The train departs, and several days later he finds himself thousands of kilometers away from Moscow, in a small northern town called Polyarny, which, as it turns out, is not so easy to get out of...
Four hosts discuss some current news and comment on different issues in politics and economics, similar to 7 Tage, 7 Köpfe. The show's name is a reference to the 80s TV program "Прожектор Перестройки" - a program that was discussing current events on Soviet television during the times of Perestroika - and American socialite Paris Hilton, who, according to Svetlakov, symbolizes lack of taste. Thus, the name of the show implies that this is a current events program that shouldn't be taken seriously.
Ivan's cat suddenly dies - that is the only thing that connected him with his ex-wife, the separation from which he still cannot survive. He cannot bury the cat: there is no money, and winter is raging on the street. His best friend Pasha comes to his aid, and he intends to arrange a funeral at all costs.
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Kolobok decides to change his fate and unwittingly becomes the partner of the humble baker Tikhon.
A boy nicknamed Uncle Fyodor loved animals very much, but his parents didn't want to hear anything about having a pet in their apartment. So Uncle Fyodor had to move to the village of Prostokvashino with his new friends — the cat Matroskin and the faithful dog Sharik.
Timofey Nazarov, the head of the colony in the remote taiga, still dreams of escaping to the capital — and is betting on cinema again. But Nikolai Videnin was released, and now Nazarov is transferring a new prisoner to his colony — the famous Moscow director Matvey Selyuzhitsky, who gets the nickname "Motor" and begins to reshoot iconic Hollywood action films.
The Shatalov family plays an important role in the life of their neighborhood. The head of the family, Alyona, runs a management company that serves the whole quarter. Her husband Mikhail is a doctor at the district polyclinic, and their 20—year-old son Artyom serves as a district police officer. Every day, this magnificent family solves the everyday and everyday problems of the residents of their area, constantly getting into funny and curious situations. But one day the Shatalovs' personal problems grow to the scale of a domestic disaster.
On New Year's Eve, nine-year-old Vanya from Kirov, having learned of his parents' separation, sets off for Veliky Ustyug to ask Father Frost for a miracle.
Two up-and-coming friends, seeing themselves as the future elite of the new world, oligarchs, they sign up for a major deal, but it turns out that they have been drawn into a massive embezzlement scheme involving billions from the treasury. After his arrest, Andrei ends up in an overcrowded communal cell, a purgatory where he must transform himself into a different person in order to survive and return back to the real world, to his family.
Terminally ill surgeon Kirill finds a job in a clinic where doctors struggle with supernatural phenomena. The only way to survive is to show his best side and convince the new management that the hospital needs him. Kirill plunges into the intricacies of the relationships of people, witches and demons, increasingly doubting that he is able to correctly determine who exactly represents good and who is evil here. The diagnosis is imperfect, and the enemy may be someone who initially did not seem to them. To avoid such mistakes, Kirill and his colleagues will have to spend a lot of time studying the circumstances of patients' illnesses.
Ilya is 30 years old, he is a confident sucker, and Asa is 25, and she is an insecure beauty. Together, they grab any job in an attempt to survive in the big city and save money for a dream home.
Nikolai Videnin is a failed film director who is forced to work in a regular video store in Leningrad. One day, Nikolai accidentally turns on an "adult film" for schoolchildren, for which he first goes to court, and then to a colony settlement. There he gets the nickname Vidik and now, instead of pressing the "Play" button on the VCR, the guy has to cut down the forest from morning to evening.
Konstantin Inozemtsev is a ladies' man and a popular writer in the past. He continues to live in a big way, getting more and more into debt. Fate presents Kostya with a chance to restart his career by heading a fading glossy magazine. In a month, he has to release the first issue of the magazine under a new name, bring back the sweetheart of his life and prove to everyone that he is still worth something.
Valera, a flawless driver with 30 years behind the wheel, loses his job just as his dog Lincoln needs an expensive lifesaving surgery. Desperate for income, he’s approached by a sleek, AI-powered self-driving taxi. To avoid spooking passengers, the car asks Valera to pretend to be its driver and help it achieve a top user rating — in exchange for all the earnings from their rides. For Valera, it’s his dog’s only chance; for the taxi, it’s a fight for its own survival.
Once upon a time, Andrey went against the family tradition and, abandoning his career as a teacher, went to Moscow. The business failed, and the only way to fix things was to sell the family house, which, according to rumors, Pushkin once lived in. But there is a problem: in order to make a deal, it is necessary to obtain the permission of the father, who is serving time in the colony and blames his son for this. In order to improve relations, Andrey goes to the trick and gets a job as a teacher at an evening school at the colony. But this seems to be not enough, and to prove the sincerity of his intentions to return to teaching, Andrei simultaneously gets a job at an ordinary school as a literature teacher. During the day, he instills a love for beautiful teenagers, and in the evening — prisoners. And it's not always clear which school is safer to work at.
Anya, Milana and Vika are friends from school. They are very different, but they are all similar in one thing - they cannot find their love. Vika runs several tire shops in a provincial town. Anya works remotely as a personal assistant to a Siberian businessman.
A dyslexic graduate of a pedagogical institute is forced to become a teacher of Russian language and literature in a secondary school. Despite the illness, he manages to establish contact with the students, who in the end will help him keep his job.
