Galina Saburova

A woman who cleans toilets has dreams of meeting a lover and finding happiness.Will these dreams, in the winter of a USSR in its last years, come true?

Vadim, a part-time dump truck driver in Leningrad, picks up an extremely young woman, along with a newborn baby. Vadim is forced to spend the rest of his day with Anna, helping her untangle herself from unpleasant, dramatic, and even tragic situations – and she and she alone is to blame for all of them. The baby, which Anna stole in order to make an impression on an estranged lover, is finally returned to its parents, but the problems that the theft caused remain.

A train passenger discovered a bag containing money from the sale of a house was missing. All passengers on the train are suspects.

How can change your life if someone tells you that your husband is cheating on you?

A story about several days in the life of a zemstvo doctor and his work in a rural hospital.

In one big country there was a small village of Khlyupovo. And there lived in that village old men and old women, and small children. But one day, tired of the constant auditors and visiting bosses, the village decided to separate from the country...

A story about two old people living in the abandoned faraway village.

The main character in the hospital remembers how a soldier shared food that helped him survive during the war. And then he himself saves the child who fell into the hole...

Once Olga was told that she would meet her betrothed on New Year's Eve. Disappointed in her affair with Edik, who showed up on her doorstep on New Year's Eve, she no longer trusts anyone, and decisively changes everything in her life - her style, her job, her apartment. While Olga is getting rid of unpleasant memories of the past, the angels are not idle, they decide the fates of their wards. On another New Year's Eve, an uninvited and rather persistent guest from the far North appears on Olga's doorstep. From that moment (not without the help of the angels), the New Year for Olga and other characters in the film turns into a series of incredible events...

Based on a story by Nikolai Berezovsky, using fragments from O. Henry's short story "Peaches."

A junior employee of the Forest Research Institute is sent to collect mushrooms. In the forest, he meets a strange old woman, receives a silver horn and a magic club as a gift from her, and after some time ends up in prison as a counterfeiter. His connections with the mysterious old woman do not end there.

Broken old bus with a small troupe of actors travels from village to village to give a day two or three performances in front of a small audience. In the troupe — people, each of them in his own way in love with the theater…

The Leningrad Jazz Club is preparing to celebrate its 30th anniversary and the birthday of the club's founder, Alexei Sokolnikov, the first leader of the jazz band. It has been decided to find all the original members of the band and invite them to the celebration. But this is not so easy to do, and there is also a mystery lurking in the past that led to the band's breakup...

The life of the intellectual Samgin, depicted against the backdrop of the grand panorama of Russian life from 1877 to 1917.

The life story of two fellow villagers in the period 1920–50s.