Yevgeni Mezentsev

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.

A chronicle of life in a small village in the Baikal Region on the eve of World War I and at the time of the October Revolution. The age-old foundations are crumbling, the process of social stratification is underway and, as a result, some people go to defend the revolution, and others - to fight against it. The main hero is the young Cossack Roman Ulybin. At first, this carefree daredevil is preoccupied only with one problem: whether his sweetheart, Dashutka, is to marry him or a merchant’s son, Alyoshka. Roman is killing time fist-fighting with his rival. But little by little, the young man realizes that the world around him has changed, that people are fighting for equality and social justice, and, being a real Cossack, he can’t remain on the sidelines…

Un joven al mando de una veterana tripulación de un Carro de asalto SU-85 espera impacientemente participar en su primer combate en la ofensiva en Ucraina de la primavera de 1943. Su juventud y su falta de experiencia harán que tanto su tripulación como sus mandos tengan recelos de él. Pero poco a poco con persistencia y valor conseguirá ganarse el respeto de todos. Para muchos la mejor película sobre tanques del cine bélico.

The movie is set during the last days of a foreign intervention against Soviet Russia. Police are searching everywhere for a Bolshevik named Brodsky but cannot find him. Meanwhile, a man named Michel Voronov serves as a teacher to a rich woman's son, Zhen'ka.

Chess Grandmaster Sergei Khlebnikov is a highly talented and unusual person, living in the 1970s Soviet Union. He is obsessed with making a beautiful game, but his emotional and irrational state stands in his way of victory. At last, his moment comes and he wins the Tournament of Contenders for the World Championship. But now, he has to play the World Champion...