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A military epic based on Ivan Stadnyuk's novel of the same name about the tragic events of the first months of the WWII.
Based on the story of the same name by Anatoliy Kalinin. A young village woman, Klavdiya Pukhlyakova, the mother of a newborn girl, finds a gypsy boy at the crushed kibitka under the tanks. Having pity on the child, she takes him home and raises him as her own son. 17 years pass. Once in the village appears a lonely gypsy Budulai, who has experienced a lot. He very quickly gained the sympathy of Pukhlyakova's adoptive son. Suspecting that Budulai is the father of her gypsy boy, Klavdiya fears that the peace of the family will be disturbed...
An older film critic's life is interrupted by an unexpected visitor.
The hero of the film, police captain Anatoly Lensky, is an adventurer who is characterized by nobility, a sense of honor and intrigue. Together with other characters goes to the "Bay of death" in search of hidden treasures there. All heroes movie must to meet in one place. There they will converge, but not all come back…
"Strong Ivan" is a film telling an outstanding life story of Ivan Firtsak who was born in June, 1899 in a Ukrainian village Bilky, Irshava district in Zakarpattia Oblast. At the age of 18 he became a performer with a Czechoslovak circus and travelled to 64 countries of the world, astonishing everybody with his victories. He was a weightlifting champion of Czechoslovakia, a bodybuilding champion of Europe. He earned the nickname Strong Ivan Croton for his incredible strength. Ivan Firtsak won a great number of single combats with famous wrestlers of the world. From hands of the Queen of England he received a helmet and a belt decorated with cold and diamonds. American press called him the strongest man of the XX century. In 1937 in the prime of his fame he came back to the homeland.
Young Kyiv resident Semen Dakhno lived quietly and modestly with his parents in an old house on Andriivskyi Uzviz. But one day, while working as an extra on a film set, he accidentally damaged the wing of a jeep belonging to a prominent businessman and criminal authority, Yaroslav Karpik. To avoid serious trouble, Semen is now forced to work for Karpik, becoming the director of a front company through which the mafia plans to steal millions of dollars and then liquidate both the company itself and all its employees. But Semen and Lika, a girl who works as an accountant at the company, disagree with this state of affairs. They decide to ruin the criminals' plans, and now they face three main tasks: to expose Karpik and his gang while staying alive, and... to confess their love to each other in time.
The car of successful businesswoman Galina Kuptsova is involved in an accident. But this tragic event brings no sorrow to her relatives, who rush to identify the body so they can bury her as quickly as possible. What awaits them next is an inheritance so vast it takes their breath away. Galina’s former subordinate, Eduard Kholodkov, is equally delighted by his boss’s death — now he can finally close a truly lucrative deal with a swindler and line his own pockets. Kuptsova had always stood in the way of his commercial ambitions. There is only one person who refuses to believe in Kuptsova’s death — private detective Nikolai. He launches his own investigation, which leads to staggering revelations.
Based on the famous novel by Ilya Il'f and Yevgeniy Petrov this two-part-TV-movie tells the story of the of Ostap Bender and Kisa Vorobyaninov who are searching for hidden jewelry, hidden in one of twelve chairs by Vorobyaninov's aristocratic mother-in-law, to hide it during the revolution. But their priest, Father Fyodor found out about it and starts searching for the same chairs. During the movie the story is commented by the authors themselves who are writing it during the process.
