Innokentiy Sichkar

The beautiful Franka, the daughter of a Polish official, marries a peasant Pavel and cannot accept her happy fate: before her marriage, she had to be a laundress in rich houses and a prostitute. And now Franka's restless soul longs for repentance.

Father Alexander is trying to maintain peaceful life for his church amidst the Nazi occupation during WWII.

A story about Yurka, a seven year old boy, who lives with his parents in a state border guards station.

The teacher scolds Keshka for deuces in English. Instead of doing homework, Keshka succumbs to the persuasion of friends and goes to the video salon for a horror movie with the famous character Freddy Krueger. But Keshka is bored. He falls asleep and has a nightmare.

A simple Russian woman, having lost her husband and son, found herself in another family and raised someone else's child... Maria has been living with the Alimov family for over thirty years. Fate once brought her together with Larisa Alimova, who, due to illness, could not raise her son, Petya.

The former supervisor of the camp of political prisoners, Barkhatov, turned out to be an ordinary corporal in the war, failed, and did not want to change in the new circumstances and remained a camp "turntable". And during the war, being together with naive village people, he arranged a small "puppet" theater, where he became the main "puppeteer".

A 'runaway' homeless man, once a renowned athlete, finds himself marooned in the small, snow-covered town of Zarechensk. Victor lands a job at an orphanage, where he soon meets a young teacher who becomes both a compassionate friend and the love of his life. However, fate doesn't play out simply as good or bad; it unfolds in a way that makes the hero realize one cannot run away from oneself. Consequently, it is in Zarechensk that a train carrying a film crew from the capital, on their way back to Moscow, is compelled to delay their journey for a few days. Remarkably, Zarechensk becomes the place where a director finally discovers the perfect actress for his leading role and encounters a man who has fled from her love. Meanwhile, a producer makes the ultimate decision to select this town as the filming location for her upcoming movie.