Ernest Timerkhanov

The final part of Mikhalkov's trilogy about Divisional Commander Kotov finds him returning home during World War II having been betrayed, narrowly escaped execution for treason and nearly reduced to dust in a prison camp. Only to discover that everything has changed and he will have to fight again for his name, for his honor, and for his love.

The film explores the theme of preserving humanity and compassion in an individual in a robotic world governed by a single fear – the fear of going against that very world.

Tatarstan, Russia, a small Tatar village. An old woman, Bibinur Juhangir, sees a dream telling that she is going to die next Friday. She has to use the time rest to give all of her debts and to prepare for the departure. Suddenly criminal businessmen and land owners appear in the village. They are intending to sell the land, where now the old cemetery is. One of them, Jihangir, who is used to glamorous life of big cities having lived the most part of his life abroad, has now for the first time in his life arrived on Tartar land. The young man stays in Bibinur's house for the night, and she tells him about her life. She's ready to confront his companion and refuses to sell the land.

“Male's way” is the first male series devoid of thieves' raids, pseudo-romantic maxims and melodramatic self-torture, an uncompromisingly honest look at the relations of men and women, devoid of political correctness alien to this form. These are stories about “sex in the big city” through the eyes of women and men living in the Russian metropolis, this is a challenge to the norms of hypocritical morality, screaming about tolerance and chastity, but mired in oppression and debauchery, this is a bitter medicine, caustic truth about the heroes of our time forced to live according to the laws of the society to which they serve. And in this hopeless accuracy, the main note of all interwoven plots, where life itself will put everything in its place, and yesterday's monster can become handsome, and Cinderella can turn into a witch.

The heroes of the almanac's stories are students who studied at the same institute in the 90s and lived together in a dormitory. Then many people left, their paths diverged and their lives turned out differently, but they did not lose touch and still communicate, help each other and share common problems. Fellow students meet 20 years later on the anniversary of their favorite teacher. But how many things will happen before this meeting…