Galina Bukanova

A former front-line soldier, who worked at his post for a quarter of a century, local commissioner Lieutenant Semyon Mitrofanovich Kovalev, going to the department in the morning, was most sad that tomorrow he would no longer have to go to service: tomorrow he would be retired. But the last day of his service ended tragically.

A production of the State Academic Maly Theater. The film, dedicated to the memory of Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky, includes fragments of plays based on the playwright's plays: "We'll settle accounts with our own people", "Thunderstorm", "Wolves and Sheep", "The Abyss", "The Snow Maiden", "The Heart is not a Stone", "It Shines but Doesn't Warm", "Mad Money", "The Truth is Good, but Happiness is Better", and "It's not all for naught".

Based on the plays by A.N. Ostrovsky's tales, staged by the Maly Theater.

Based on Leo Tolstoy's drama "The Power of Darkness, or the Claw is Faded, the whole bird is lost" staged by the State Academic Maly Theater of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Genoa, 1547. Count Fiesco di Lavagna is to lead an uprising against the ruler of Genoa, Count Doria. But in the chaos surrounding the struggle for power, innocent people perish...

Former front-line soldier Ivan Ivanovich Klimov, a responsive and obliging man, works as a carpenter in a collective farm. Forty years after the end of the war, he receives the well-deserved award. Ivan is proud and happy. However, he is deeply hurt by the fact that a former policeman, Grishka, still lives and prospers in the village.

The experienced collective farm chairman, Berest, is replaced by a young specialist, economist Bocharova, who strives to reorganize the farm's operations.

Based on the play by E. Kaplinskaya staged by the Maly Theater of the USSR.

Television play based on the novel by Ivan Goncharov.

At the center of the comedy are two neighboring families: the merchant widow Kruglova with her dowryless daughter, and the wealthy Akhov, a sixty-year-old millionaire.