Gennadii Blinov

1989-1990. General Secretary of the CPSU Mikhail Gorbachyov begins global transformations in the USSR. He passionately wants to become a star in world politics and for this he is ready to go as far as he can to meet the West. But the perestroika planned by Gorbachyov leads to fatal, irreversible consequences. Intelligence officer Alexander Nechaev finds himself at the center of an operation organized by the intelligence services of several countries. During the months spent in Berlin at the moment of the breakdown of the entire post-war world order, Nechaev changed a lot. He no longer knows who is a friend and who is a traitor, but continues to defend the honor and interests of his Motherland...

For a long time, Masha Roshchina, a young doctor, did not want to introduce her chosen cosmonaut, Andrei Izotov, to her mom and dad, especially her dad. Masha's father is police lieutenant Colonel Dmitry Roshchin, and Masha's chosen one detests law enforcement officers and treats them with irony bordering on hatred. The meeting of the parents and Andrei eventually takes place right in the wedding palace, and the wedding is disrupted. Masha sets a condition: the future husband and father should get along. Andrey, who loves a girl, gets a job as a police intern and, together with Lieutenant Colonel Roshchin, rushes in pursuit of the criminal Taktarov, who stole the American diplomat Harrison. The criminals manage to leave St. Petersburg, the case becomes international, and now all police forces are deployed to catch the adventurer holding the diplomat. Taktarov is heading south, with endless fun adventures ahead for the pursuers and the escapees.

Unsuccessful actor Alexey Vyazintsev learns that his father was killed under mysterious circumstances. Alexey travels to Shironino, his father's hometown, to sell his apartment, but instead finds himself embroiled in a series of dangerous events. Locals believe that the books of the long-forgotten Soviet writer Gromov have magical properties. Each of these books gives a specific effect: Rage, Patience, Power, Joy, Strength or Memory. The secret world of readers of Gromov's books is divided into Libraries that hunt for books all over the country and are ready to kill competitors for the sake of their strength. Vyazintsev will have to become a part of one of the Libraries, reveal the secrets of his own family and go in search of the rarest of magical books — the book of Meaning.

After a long absence, surgeon Maxim Mikhailov returns to his hometown to help his mother, who is suspected of having an early stage of Alzheimer’s. He gets a job at a local hospital, and on the very first day faces a serious test to operate a patient with a severe brain trauma. Maximov saves the girl, but when transferred to the nearby regional hospital, she dies under suspicious circumstances. The doctor launches his own investigation and finds out the dark truth behind the young woman’s death. It is the first case in a series of medical and criminal mysteries he is going to solve throughout the series. Maksimov is a talented doctor and a passionate person, but his methods are both outrageous and admirable. He keeps saving people’s lives performing the most challenging surgeries but, as it turns out, not everyone is happy about it.

Figure skater Katya suffers because of her father, who is a real domestic tyrant. After his unexpected death, she comes to Moscow to train with a tough coach and take part in the World Championships. She may have the opportunity to get a grant and gain long-awaited freedom for herself and her little sister.

Aysha is preparing for the wedding, but suddenly learns that her brother Timur has disappeared. In search of her brother, the girl returns to her native village, where she encounters not only her own past, but also a secret hidden in the depths of the forest.

Shust and his friends commit small-time scams for a living, taking advantage of any opportunity that comes their way. Meeting Ulyanov, the former Soviet Union shot put champion, and his daughter opens Shust's eyes to a completely different way of living. But under his gang's pressure, he uses Ulyanov to plan a heist on a Buryat jade-trading commune.

Moscow, 1952, mid-October, the XIX Congress of the CPSU had just ended. A communal apartment on Bolshaya Pirogovka. In one of the rooms lives the Petkevich family: Ariadna with her husband Boris and her parents, professor of philosophy Peter Kazimirovich and his wife Angelina Fyodorovna. For those few months that remained until Stalin's death, the family experiences a series of dramatic events. But on a background of terrible time, antisemitism, fabricated "case of doctors", denunciations and snitches, there are people who live their lives without losing dignity.

The young actress Sveta graduated from the theater academy, lives in St. Petersburg and dreams of starring not in casual TV series, but in serious films and playing serious roles. She is lucky, she ends up in a Bollywood project, which brings together movie stars, the best DJs and choreographers of the country. But everything turns out to be not very simple. Nobody knows the script, the actors live in a small hotel for months and do not understand what is happening. It turns out that in addition to the main filming, the actors, DJ and choreographers are involved in a strange game.

August 1960. Director Nikolai Berentsev is working on a large-scale science fiction film about an expedition to Venus. The construction of grandiose decorations begins in the pavilion. Berentsev himself develops models of planets and spacecraft, comes up with special devices for combined filming. He tries to imagine and visualize something that no one has ever seen — life on other planets. He believes that fantasy should run ahead of science, but faces skepticism from colleagues and the scientific community. In the end, he himself begins to doubt whether his film is needed by the audience, why these dreams of Space, when there are so many unresolved problems on Earth.

Law student Oleg, who lives with his mother and stepfather, learns that his father has been released from prison and wants to see him. Having met his dad, Oleg discovers that he is a passionate lover of gambling. So the young man plunges into the world of big poker, underground casinos and research laboratories. Having become part of this shadow reality, Oleg becomes infected with a gaming addiction.

Liza, a young and optimistic woman, arrives in Saint Petersburg for the first time, enchanted by the city's poetic bridges, legendary embankments, and vibrant bohemian parties. As the day unfolds, unexpected connections form, leading Liza to discover that love might be found in the most unforeseen circumstances.

An elderly man suffering from dementia has long forgotten how to remember simple things; time has erased names, routes, and faces. But only one memory has remained with him forever — a winter evening in St. Petersburg, a tram, and a girl whose meeting was imprinted in his heart. The film was shot in support of the Dementia.net foundation on the initiative of the Action charity auction.

Here, among the scorched by hot steppe and salty sea winds, on the fragments of a lost life of a forgotten coastal village, mother Era and son Andrey settle in a small house. And also a love that resists the indifference of the rest of the world, and in this love there is everything - hope and despair, strength and weakness, truth and lies, freedom and slavery.

Eight stories about different facets of love for the Motherland.

Black and white story, two colors - two heroes: a young man who spends one night in a communal apartment, collecting bit by bit memories from childhood, and a girl who finds herself in the next room in search of her lost past.