Arseny Topolaga

Some sporting victories are about more than just claiming a title. Some of them go down in history. The film follows the most dramatic and legendary showdown in the history of chess – the match between Anatoly Karpov, then world champion, and Viktor Korchnoi, a recent emigrant from the USSR. In this battle between two outstanding chess players, a duel of personalities under immense psychological pressure, the stakes are incomprehensibly high.

The year is 1941. Nazi Germany has declared war on the USSR and begins launching air assaults on Moscow and St. Petersburg. Stalin immediately orders a retaliatory air campaign under the code name “Wings over Berlin.” The closest entry point to Berlin from the USSR border was an airfield on the Estonian island Saaremaa in the Baltic Sea. It would be a 7-hour flight over enemy territory in outdated aircraft leaving no chance of survival for the tail crew members in case of attack. Despite overwhelming odds, the first units completed the mission and made it back to base safely, unlike many others that followed.

The film is about a generation of brave and beautiful people who did not see the destruction of the revolution and the chaos of the civil war, who dreamed of building a new life in which there would be no place for death, but only incredible love that opens the way for them to great achievements and discoveries. About exploits and glory, betrayal and loyalty of those who were heroes in heaven and on earth. About the time of immense trials that fell on their short but bright lives. About a woman who was the dream and true love of the Soviet Union.

You can start with a clean slate at any age. Even when you are 60 years old and it seems that everything is fine with you. Viktor Molodtsov, a lonely widower, an official of the "old school" of the Zauralsk city hall, who does not recognize modern technologies, suddenly finds out that he has an adult daughter in the capital… And she heads one of the departments of the Ministry of Digital and Advanced Development. Unlike her mild—mannered and out-of-date father, Ekaterina Kulik is very confident, tough and progressive - constantly modernizing all existing work processes. Well done "by connections" finds an opportunity to get a job as an ordinary employee in the Ministry. He is going to Moscow to find out if this is really his daughter, and if so, to gain her trust.