Aleksandr Ksenofontov

People living at a seashore town are frightened by reports of an unknown creature called "the sea devil". Nobody knows what it is, but it's really the son of doctor Salvator. The doctor performed surgery on his son and now young Ichtiander can live under water. This gives him certain advantages, but also creates a lot of problems.

An account of the peasant turned mythical military hero Vasily Chapayev, charting his campaign in the Red Army during the Russian Civil War.

About the struggle of the red Army and the revolutionary workers of Petrograd against the white guards in 1919....

The film consists of fragments of the competitions of pentathlete athletes included in the game plot.

A documentary film about the Karelo-Finnish SSR.

Little Nikita, the son of polar scientist Sergei Ivanov, runs away from home with the intention of reaching the Arctic, where he believes his father works. The boy manages to reach Leningrad, where he ends up at the Arctic Institute. Sergei is tasked with returning the runaway home, but Nikita stubbornly hides his origins and the purpose of his escape. Soon, his grandmother arrives, and Ivanov learns that Nikita is his son. He writes a letter to his ex-wife and convinces her of the need to return to him. The couple reconciles, and, preparing for another expedition, Sergei promises his wife and young son that he will return to the mainland on time.

A love story based on a classic play by Aleksandr Ostrovskiy.

Schoolboy Petya Ivanov receives a letter from a famous scientist and 20 grains of a new high-yield variety of wheat. Petya and his schoolmates decide to create an experimental plot. Fearing that adults will take the seeds away from them, the children do everything in secret.

A funny comedy based on the famous theater play "Servant of Two Masters" by Carlo Goldoni.

A young designer Alyosha (Alexey Kozhevnikov) decided to write a musical review. He had already decided that the characters in this review would look like his friends Vasya and Masha, but what kind of plot should he come up with? And, reflecting on this, the author wanders through the streets of Leningrad. Vasya and Masha recently got married, and from the outside it seems that they have cloudless happiness. Meanwhile, a conflict is brewing in the newlyweds' family.

The hero of the picture is a young eccentric engineer who comes to work in the provinces and invents "shatterproof glass" there. The work on the film was long and difficult. In early 1937, attempts to save the film were stopped.

The collection consists of five short stories: "The Meeting," "One of Many," "At the Old Nanny's," "One Hundred for One," and "The Incident at the Telegraph Office."