This charming comedy tracks the lives of several romantic pairs through trials and tribulations. The main focus of the story is a young soldier with a good heart but little ambition and his fiancée, who feels torn when a charming and sophisticated intellectual enters her life and sweeps her off her feet. There are also several side stories, also all dealing with relationships, most significantly the soldier's mother, whose comfortable but unexceptional marriage is threatened when a past love returns to her life.

Three astronauts (two Russians and American) find a very Soviet-alike small town on the fourth planet from Sun.

A regular military call-up. Young guys, having got call-up papers and having passed a medical board checkup, enjoy themselves and spend the last days of freedom in different ways: some in discotheques, some in a company of friends outdoors, others are even carousing and scuffling. A colonel Nikitin (Yu. Nazarov) with a group of officers is ordered to accompany conscripts future marines - in a special train to the military service place, situated in the Far East. The whole trip takes several days. Right here, in the train wagons, with no dads and moms round, young conscripts are in for showing their worth and gaining their first experience of real army life.

Once upon a time, 20 years ago, the rock band "Uncle Alik" rattled all over the country, and its leader, Alik, enjoyed his fame. Now no one remembers them, and the former celebrities work part-time at weddings, or in the club "Old Tram", or even just - in the underpass. But one day Alik meets his old acquaintance Misha, who offers to organize his concerts in America. Everything is fine, but there's only one trouble - Alik is divorced, and it is very hard to get a visa being unmarried. Misha suggests that Alik urgently find a wife. At the same time, a nice English teacher Lyalya is being interviewed by her friend's firm, which helps educated girls find prestigious jobs. Lyalya is good for absolutely everything, except one thing: she is not married...

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A school teacher wasn't expecting to find a dead man corpse in her apartment during a party.

Alexei Infantiev moves through three life stages: a youth controlled by a dominant mother and consumed by obsessive love, a middle age crushed by the stifling monotony of Soviet daily life, and a quiet old age as a widower reflecting on a lifetime of isolation, unfulfilled potential, and emotional decay.

Short feature film, filmed in 1988. One of the first works of the film director Alexei Balabanov, at that time an assistant at the Sverdlovsk Film Studio. The film is a course work, filmed while studying at the Higher Courses of Scriptwriters and Directors; the materials of the film became the basis for the thesis work of the director, the film "Nastya and Egor" (1989).

A screen adaptation of Anton Chekhov's play about three sisters yearning for a better life.

In Russia at the turn of the century, a wealthy Jewish merchant enjoys the best of relations with his Russian neighbours, while his respected home forms the obvious social centre of the entire community. However, the atmosphere grows more tense as the local authorities come under pressure to fall in line with the officially sanctioned anti-Semitic policies of the Tsarist Government. The village elder is one of our hero's best friends and together they seem to find a way to outwit these evil intentions but unfortunately they fail to understand what forces they are dealing with in a country where anti-Semitism is state policy.