Oleg Maslennikov

An ordinary working class boy, like all his peers, he played football day and night and dreamed of being a striker. But no matter which team he played for - in the yard, at the factory, or in the army - he was inevitably put in goal.

Küçük bir kasabada öğretmenlik yapan Slava Kolotiloff'un amacı başarılı bir yazar olmaktır. İlk romanının taslağını alıp Moskova'ya gider. Ancak yazarlık hayalleri planladığı gibi gelişmez. Çünkü karşısına güzeller güzeli Nadya çıkar ve onunla evlenmeye karar verir. Düğün yaklaşırken Nadya büyük bir sorunla karşı karşıyadır. Eski erkek arkadaşı, Nadia'yı geri kazanmak için her yolu denemektedir.

A collection of several interlinked stories that happen on the New Year's eve...

Christina wants to take revenge on her blind sister, who wants to take a prize in a popular music television show. She comes up with an evil joke in which she gives out a stage play organized by her friends for a real shoot in the Ostankino television studio. The sister believes what they are trying to convince her of, and Christina's rally becomes more and more like a mockery.

Three natives of the former USSR commit a daring robbery of a German bank. Having bagged three hundred thousand euros and taken a bank employee hostage, the bandits set off through Poland to Ukraine. The situation is complicated by the fact that at one of the Polish gas stations they have to take another woman hostage. Now the law enforcement agencies of three countries - Germany, Poland and Ukraine - face a difficult task: neutralizing the criminals without harming the hostages.