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.
Un condecorado y reverenciado héroe de guerra disfruta de la compañía de su familia en un tranquilo día estival, cuando de pronto recibe la visita inesperada de un hombre al que no veía desde hacía años. Conforme transcurre el día y se acerca la noche, el coronel descubrirá el verdadero motivo de la visita. Lúcida denuncia de las purgas stalinistas.
For several years, the head of a major construction trust Melnikov was accused of embezzlement, bribe-taking and immoral behavior in anonymous letters. As a result of inspections by numerous commissions, all these “signals” were not confirmed. Melnikov, unable to withstand the attacks and slander, died of a heart attack. Investigator Dzhangirov manages to expose the slanderer ...
Anton Nikolaevich Skvortsov (O.Yefremov) is a strong and resolute person, for all his life he has been heading a big labor collective, and now he is retired, he interred his wife half a year ago, beared infarction, and now is living in his big flat with a daughter, her husband and a grown-up granddaughter. His attending doctor recommended his daughter to send him to the veterans house, in order that he could live with coevals, surrounded by congenial people and not feel so lonely. Not being able to stand all this, Anton Nikolaevich runs away from his house and goes on a sightseeing tour about Moscow. On the excursion bus he gets acquainted with Anna Konstantinovna (I.Savvina), whos retired on pension. This meeting turnes his life upside-down.
Madam Maigret
head physician
Doctor Nechayev lives by the concerns of his patients. This is a man of remarkable mental qualities and a highly qualified specialist in cardiology, but he is completely unadapted to life in everyday life and imperceptibly lost himself, did not do much of what he dreamed of and did not understand the selfless love of a young student Alya. The doctor gradually puts an end to his hopes and dreams – they fade into the background, supplanted by work in the hospital.
A young guy decides to try himself in a northern region of USSR after being honorably discharged from Soviet Army.
Гертруда
September evening, an unusual ark house, resembling a ship in shape, for its owner, the gray-haired old man, captain Châtover, sailed the whole life through the seas. A strange house where people behave differently. Young beauty sisters reign in this house, beckoning true gentlemen, as the light of a lamp beckons moths. This house fences its inhabitants from the outside world. Talk about the meaning of life, home entertainment, hopeless novels. And a premonition of trouble: at the same time, clouds of the First World were gathering over the good old England ...
Mariya
Having lived for his pleasure most of his life, floor polisher Ivan Karetnikov, on the threshold of his 60th birthday, did not for the first time leave his next wife himself, but she abandoned him, moreover, in public. In addition to these troubles, he was fired from his job, replaced by a mechanical polisher. In this difficult moment, Karetnikov remembered the first wife, and then the second and third.
But turning to each of them, he seems to begin to lose hope of seeing compassion for himself.
Erzhi, Orbock's wife
Dyula, the son of four Orbak, is a young man, like everyone at his age looking for love and at the same time dreaming of complete freedom. He loves parents, but he is terribly tired of notations and teachings. And by and large, like many young people, they themselves do not know very well what they want ...
Six-graders Tosha and Kostya are trying to deliver the pre-WWII telegram they accidentally find.
Nastya's mother
A funny story about a schoolgirl Nastya who doesn't like anything boring and always looks for adventures.
Шерлота
Джейн
Vera Goroshko
The war is over. The Red Army soldier Pyotr tries to find himself in a peaceful life. He takes the place of an accountant, and long-time friend Nazar, who has already grown to the post of the head of a collective farm, helps him in this. Together they achieve high performance indicators of their wards, skillfully solving controversial issues and emerging from confused situations.
Katya
A story about a creation of a new Soviet Jet during WWII.
