Vladimir Firsov

Hikayesi 20 yılı aşkın bir süreyi kapsayan filmde, üç kadının genç kızlıktan orta yaşlarına gelmeleri, hayatlarına yön veren önemli olayların eşliğinde anlatılıyor. Bu yolculuğu izlerken de Sovyetler Birliği'nde sıradan insanların günlük yaşam akışına tanık oluyoruz. Hikayenin merkezinde olan kadınlar aslında Moskova'lı değiller ve yurt gibi bir yerde yaşıyorlar. Kadınlardan özellikle biri, evlilik yoluyla sınıf atlamak konusunda kararlı ve ana olaylar da bu hikaye etrafında dönüyor * Bu Sovyet kült filmi, aldığı Oscar ödülünün yanı sıra 1980 yılında Berlin Film Festivali'nde Altın Ayı ödülüne aday gösterilmiştir.

Middle-aged university professor desperately tries to strike a balance in his life between his wife and his mistress, slowly getting bogged down in his own lies.

Summer, 1944. A military airbase near the very front-line. A young soviet pilot Sergey makes his first practice flight. In the course of this flight he hears a call for help on the radio from Russian pilots, having an unequal air combat with superior forces of the enemy. Sergey rushes to their rescue. His plane gets shut down, and he is taken prisoner. Soon he is taken to a special flight school, where future German aces are prepared and Russian pilots at the wheel of captured Russian aircrafts are used as living targets. Nobody wants to put up with such situation, and they prepare an escape.

Boyars are trying to marry their tsar in a country of far far away.

The second part of Soviet filmmaker Sergei Bondarchuk's epic biography of John Reed. It is October 1917 and the American journalist has found himself and his wife, Louise Bryant, in Petrograd on the eve of the Bolshevik revolution.

A flutist in the forgotten past, at present the husband of a “big man’s” daughter and head of one of the Chief Directorate’s sections felt unwell one day: the forty-year-old man had a pain in his heart. This unpleasant incident provided an opportunity to meet a nurse named Lida. However, their stormy love affair ended, with Filimonov returning to normal life and an unloved wife.

The film is set in 1913 Russia during the celebrations of the Tricentennial Anniversary of the Romanov Dynasty. Rich Russian merchants are celebrating their wealth by gambling and playing poker. They are traveling aboard the luxurious cruise liner "St. Nikolai" on Volga river, oblivious to the fact that several gangs of crooks and con-artists are stealing their money in the game. Their target is the wealthiest Russian tycoon Satanovsky.

The hypochondriac Argan wants his daughter to marry a doctor so he can save on his medical bills.