Rimma Shorokhova

Semyon Danilovich Petukhov was very surprised to found upon returning from vacation that he was declared dead and... buried.

1935. Two families — Davydov's with three children and the newlyweds Lida and Dmitri Kashirin's — enter the new house on the outskirts of Moscow into a common communal apartment. The children grow up, and they and the adults around them are looking for their place in life, looking for answers to the questions of who to be and what to be, quarreling, making peace, building relationships, destroying them. Six years later, the peaceful lives of characters, with their joys and misfortunes, quarrels and reconciliations, and complex personal relationships, are blown up by a war that connects everyone at once, forcing them to see the meaning of their days, their attitudes to each other and their life values in a different way. For some of them, war is a fatal trait.

Una sofisticada joven, idealista profesora de literatura rusa, llega a una ciudad provincial e industrial para dar clases a los jóvenes trabajadores de una fábrica de fundición de metal. Uno de sus alumnos más populares, arrogante y capaz de conseguir a cualquier chica, se enamora de ella, cuyos ideales chocan con los de él.

A comedy about Krushchev's 'Virgin Lands' project, to transform the barren and inhospitable spaces of the vast Soviet Union into fertile agricultural plains. A classically Socialist-Realist narrative of an individual's 're-education'. Zhenia, a hapless idler, arrives with a band of enthusiastic young Konsomol members to build a new town in the steppe. Although his dream, like that of all the young participants, is 'to become a tractor driver and a hero', he isn't prepared to work for the honour.

Young scientist is going to taiga for his experiments but meets poachers on the way.