Otoño de 1941. La ex militante del Partido Comunista Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya se alista en la Guerrilla. Cuando su escuadrón es emboscado durante un intento de incendiar un granero, es capturada por los alemanes. Interrogada y torturada, Zoya permanece en silencio y es leal a su grupo. Su hazaña cautiva a millones de corazones, mientras ayuda a los soldados soviéticos a llegar a Berlín.
His motto was laconic: "I promised - stay still." This is how Alexei Balabanov lived, raised his sons, was friends, and so filmed. A legendary director and an extraordinary person who made both "festival" and "mass" films with equal ease. He was a great father and a difficult husband, a loyal friend and an honest guy. Balabanov with his life, passions, losses, burning pain on the way to God in the memories of those closest to him - mother, sons, wife and friends. He seems to be telling the crew again: "Let's do it talentedly!"
Artyom, a young adventurer, meets Felix - the once legendary art thief, who was called "Number One". The "Old School" and the newcomer decide to crank up the scam of the century - to steal one of the most expensive paintings of our time - "N 1" by Mark Rothko from the gallery owned by the ex-wife of Felix and her new husband. By chance, Artem meets Marina and falls in love with her. And she turns out to be an investigator and really wants to catch Felix red-handed.
After the death of the mother of twelve Kohl sent to an orphanage. Valentine is taking him from there. This lonely old woman is his dear aunt, with whom he had never been acquainted. Kohl is waiting for his older brother to come after him after his release from prison, and they will return home together.
Co-owners of the advertising agency "Major" Robert and Marina live in anticipation of a major deal with the Japanese businessman Sasaki. This contract, like many others, is solely due to Marina, who is forced to work for two, while her colleague Robert, an advertising genius and an incredibly successful businessman, plunged headlong into the pool of parties and love adventures.
Vanya es un niño ruso de 6 años que vive en un orfanato, una institución destartalada y sobrepoblada, donde los niños esperan ansiosos que alguien vaya a adoptarles.
Segunda parte de la película realizada por Balabanov en 1997. Con el motivo de aparecer en un programa televisivo, Danila Bagrov tiene un encuentro en Moscú con un ex-compañero del ejército durante la guerra de Chechenia. Su viejo amigo le informa de que su hermano gemelo, que se dedica a jugar al hockey profesional en la NHL estadounidense, está sufriendo en sus carnes un expolio de manos del dueño de su equipo, un hombre de negocios de la ciudad de Chicago. Una cadena de acontecimientos conducirá a Danila y a su hermano Viktor a poner rumbo a América para intervenir en el asunto, dispuestos a enfrentarse con quien les impida avanzar en pos de su objetivo.
