Evgeniy Serzin

Yekaterinburg of the 90s. A company of young poets, including the most talented — a junior researcher at the Institute of Geophysics Boris Ryzhy, wanders through the cold and dangerous streets of the city from party to party. Ironic and friendly, he can negotiate with local brothers with equal ease, drive to Moscow for the "Anti-Booker" award, fight at the stall and crash into the department.

Yekaterinburg of the 90s. A company of young poets, including the most talented — a junior researcher at the Institute of Geophysics Boris Ryzhy, wanders through the cold and dangerous streets of the city from party to party. Ironic and friendly, he can negotiate with local brothers with equal ease, drive to Moscow for the "Anti-Booker" award, fight at the stall and crash into the department.

Seventeen-year-old Artyom is invisible in the family and a rebel in the technical school. He has a best friend, Kostya, and they do all the provocations and tricks together. When the management of the technical school compiles an unofficial list of dangerous teenagers - "explosives", Kostya, by pure chance, falls into the first place, which makes him popular among other students. Kostya revels in interest in himself - and betrays his friend, convincing his classmates that he, Kostya, is the main and only inspirer of all their antics. Then Artyom decides to prove who the “number one bomber” is really here. But on his way, a girl, Kira, unexpectedly appears, who is able to influence his dangerous plan.

1984, Sverdlovsk, USSR. A shy freshman, an entrepreneur, a poet and two charming it-girls navigate life in a student dorm, sharing their griefs and joys, all for one and one for all. Suddenly a horrible accident blows up the life of the dorm when a female student commits suicide. The dorm is a miniature model of the world that encapsulates the full range of human passions, acts of bravery and cowardice, aspirations for virtue and failures, of love, friendship and betrayal.

A 15-year old Vika has to grow up. Only yesterday she was just a teenager and now she’s a mom. Catching sidelong scowls of adults, being mocked by peers, unbearable responsibility – it seems like the entire world is against her and Vika is all by herself. More truly, she has a child now, she’s not all alone.

What is to be a child to whom parents ask the same question every day: whom does he love more? Mom or dad? What should mom do if she madly loves her son, but circumstances force him to take the child away from his father? What should be done to dad if his son is taken to America forever, and he cannot imagine his life without him? This is a story of choice. When deciding for a child, a parent often does as he is comfortable with. The child agrees, afraid to hurt the parent, but time will pass, he will mature and at some point he will decide for himself. Only the parent from this will be much more painful.

Mikhail Devyatayev, a captured Soviet pilot who leads an escape from a German concentration camp by hijacking an aircraft.

The world famous pianist comes home, to the USSR, to participate in the Tchaikovsky Competition. But the commission does not allow him even to the final round. This event becomes fatal for the hero. The heroine of the second story, a young girl, becomes a widow some time after the wedding. Unable to let go of her husband, she asks him questions in her mind. The content of the long-awaited response is overwhelming.

A young father preparing for a rally is distracted by a swaying tooth by his six-year-old son. While the father persuades his son to pull out the tooth, a capture group rises to the apartment.

Siege of Leningrad, 1942. Despaired Nina Voronova evacuates from the city, leaving her little son along in a deadly cold apartment. He is found by Katya, a teenage girl from next door. She claims he’s her brother, and manages to get extra food provision from the district administration. When Alexey Voronov arrives to the city, he realises this little boy is his son.

According to UN data in the workforce, in terms of numbers and sex, in Russia there are 794,000 people

According to UN data in the workforce, in terms of numbers and sex, in Russia there are 794,000 people

A measured car journey through Italy of a young 30-year-old couple on the eve of the wedding explodes with the arrival of the groom's younger brother. Under the rubble of rock and roll, arranged by the brother at their own expense-will be their ideals, ideas about life, goals and love, as well as their relationship and upcoming marriage. After the last free summer, autumn will come, and each of the three will have to answer for their actions.

The main character of the movie "How to get a woman" - an employee of the Observatory Petya. Every night he looks at the stars and believes in love, which is written in novels and told in old movies. Getting acquainted, he asks how to find the North star, because it is important for him that the girl was a romantic. At twenty-six, he is alone, because he has not yet received an answer to this question.

Vanya and Sonya got married early-contrary to the superstition that early marriage leads to a quick divorce. A year after the birth of their daughter, they go out together to the pub and there they quarrel-it would seem, just like that. But Sonya takes the situation seriously and leaves the house, leaving a note to Vanya – "we must break up". But they will only be able to live without each other for one day – a day of memories and sadness. During this day, they will understand that nothing is more important than being together.