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Thirty short stories based on thirty stories by Chekhov.
The plot centers on a large-scale conspiracy by a group of US military personnel, led by General James Scott, against the current President Jordan Lyman. Further events show that the President, who sent his closest aides and friends to investigate, easily and almost indifferently accepts the news of their deaths, because he is only interested in his own person.
1927. A retired Red Army commander Constantine Vorontsov is appointed a Criminal Investigation Department head in a principal city of province. An experienced repeater named Korney shows up in the city. Thanks to a successfully performed operation a place of a local thieves gathering place is now known. But Korney, foreboding of an ambush, changes the place at the last moment. Vorontsov doesnt have enough time to warn all his colleagues and heads for the thieves meeting by his own.
The famous athlete Tatyana Bolshakova, having met in the south with the lonely and somewhat gloomy Boris, fell in love for the first time. For ridiculous reasons, they broke up, and after a while she had twins. And now it’s hard for her, but she knows that he will return ...
The naive hero, having read clever books, marries a prostitute with the aim of re-educating her and collides with the famous Sergei Eisenstein, ending in the most unexpected and fatal way...
Vera Golubeva, a textile worker, lives in a hostel. In her spare time, she arranges the fate of her friends. Although the class is disinterested and informal, Faith comes up to him professionally: working with the press, send out wedding announcements across the Soviet Union carefully selects and grooms. Vera herself is lonely, walking at other people's weddings, forgot to dream of her own family happiness. In a purely female team of the hostel there is a new commandant Viktor Petrovich. At first, he tries to fight with the established order and close the marriage office of Faith. But soon Victor begins to realize that Faith is the very woman he sought all his life…
The quiet life of the county town ended with the arrival of two young people from the capital, and what followed will remain in the memory of local residents for a long time. Intrigues and passions, meanness and nobility, love and death are closely intertwined in the life of an outwardly decent society.The outstanding Russian writer brought to the pages of his novel a number of famous and vivid characters who prepared the tragic events that happened in Russia in the 20th century through their activities.
Two men are united around a six years old daughter whose mother recently died.
Fast train N34 went exactly on schedule. The passengers were quietly getting ready for bed when the empty compartment from the outstanding cigarette lit up the curtain. Soon the wagon caught fire. Disaster is imminent. Railwaymen and passengers are working together to prevent misfortune and save hundreds of people…
Dr. Jekyll has made a sensational discovery: he has managed to separate good from evil in himself. This discovery he must keep secret, because the bearer of evil, Mr. Hyde, has become uncontrollable.
The train waitress decides not to travel around the world anymore, but to raise her son from boarding school and be with her loved one, the local theater director in native Ferzinki.
Energized by the arrival of a rich, elderly and seemingly eligible bachelor, a provincial noblewoman decides to marry off her daughter by any means necessary.
Knowing that he will soon pass on, elderly Valentin Grack hires private detective Stanislav to follow him around for an entire day and write down everything that he does. It is a cold day and during Grack's travels he encounters a younger woman who addresses him as professor. He then meets a prostitute who turns out to be his daughter, and finally he meets an old woman, his worried wife who has been searching eight days for him. In between meeting the women, Grack finds himself in some almost surreal situations and having flashbacks about his youth.
A flutist in the forgotten past, at present the husband of a “big man’s” daughter and head of one of the Chief Directorate’s sections felt unwell one day: the forty-year-old man had a pain in his heart. This unpleasant incident provided an opportunity to meet a nurse named Lida. However, their stormy love affair ended, with Filimonov returning to normal life and an unloved wife.
The beginning of the 30s of the last century. A leak of classified information was found at the Soviet shipbuilding plant. Arriving under the guise of a scientist, the legendary chekist Karotin begins to unravel the threads of the conspiracy of the fascist spy organization. He is helped by inexperienced but active local detectives. Mastering the basics of the counterintelligence, they fall into a situation the other one funnier.
They have the same appearance, but different personalities. They have a tempting opportunity to switch places, that is, to "taste" someone else's life. But it doesn't always work out the way you hope. And an innocent game can end tragically. Whose is the face of death?
