Vladimir Salnikov

Italian gambler who is well-skilled in the card trade owes people in authority, and leaves his country to win the money. Arriving in a small Russian town, he tries to show off his tricks to the local card swindlers but is caught and ends up agreeing to a friendship and a cooperation. It is hard not to find oneself liking the gallant Italian.

Shameless slimeball Eduard "Edik" Letov - clad in an everpresent Hawaiian shirt - puts the sting on alien travelers hoping to connect with their roots, by having local phonies pose as the visitors' long-lost relatives. Complications abound when Letov attempts to pass off an entire village under the guise of a community wiped out during the Second World War. The arrival of a group of trouble-causing misfits, among them mobster Barukh - who wishes to bury his mother's remains, only to discover that someone keeps exhuming them - and the lech Simon - a Canadian with an insatiable fetish for his sexy translator - turn Letov's latest scheme into a veritable cat's cradle.

Durante los años de Gorbachov, Platon Makovski y sus cuatro amigos son estudiantes universitarios que dan el salto a la iniciativa privada capitalista. Veinte años más tarde, Platon es el hombre más rico de Rusia, y ha sacrificado a sus amigos para alcanzar la cima. Pero este ascenso tan cínico traerá aparejado una caída brutal. (FILMAFFINITY)

The beautiful Tanya returns to her small mining town, after supposedly working as a model in Moscow. She decides to marry her shy school sweetheart Mishka, who now works in the mine. The miners finally receive some pay, but Mishka still ends up with no money to buy his bride a gift, so he seeks the help of his perpetually drunk buddy Garkusha. Mishka's poor working-class family all help to put on a fine wedding with copious amounts of vodka, even though they are suspicious of Tanya's occupation in Moscow, and of her connection with her Mafia ex-boyfriend Borodin.

The film's protagonist Valera - cheerful guy from Moscow, who at age 19 learned a whole hell of war in Afghanistan, where he lost a leg. Returning from the war, he had no idea what a nightmare for him is just beginning.

Khoma, un estudiante en un monasterio en Kiev, se pierde en el bosque mientras viaja a casa al final del trimestre con dos compañeros seminaristas. Al caer la noche encuentran alojamiento en la casa de una anciana. Khoma se mete en el establo y se acuesta a dormir, pero su descanso se ve perturbado por la anciana, que a la primera oportunidad, salta sobre su espalda y las dos salen volando con una escobapor el cielo nocturno. Al darse cuenta de que ha sido atrapado por una bruja, Khoma lucha por liberarse y golpea a la anciana en el suelo con un palo. Ante sus ojos, la bruja moribunda se transforma en una hermosa joven y Khoma huye de la escena. De regreso al monasterio, una delegación llega exigiendo que Khoma los acompañe de vuelta a su aldea para rezar por el cadáver de una joven durante tres noches. Al llegar a la aldea, el estudiante pronto descubre que debe pasar las noches encerrado solo en la iglesia con el cuerpo de la bruja que había dejado por muerta...

Based on the novel by Vladimir Orlov "Salty Watermelon". About the youth team of builders laying in the taiga railway Abakan-Tayshet. In the taiga, on the site of the future route, the youth team of Nikolai Bondarenko works. The people in the brigade are very different: the educated muscovite Vitaly, the resourceful Boris, the scribe and the romantic "Bukvar", but everyone lives together. They dream of a future route that will open the way to the Sayan Mountains.

1941 year. The Siberian carpenter Kuzma Kroykov arrived in Moscow as part of a rifle company. In a line of fighters, he walked through the streets of Moscow at night and in a village near Moscow met Varvara Oknova. Resolute, tall and beautiful, she won his heart. But soon the protracted terrible battles for Moscow began...