Some weekdays in the life of literature teacher Tamara, which hold nothing surprising for her. It is the story about the narrowness of the space of life with insufficient choice.
Segunda Guerra Mundial, verano de 1944. Frente ruso. Tras prolongadas y sangrientas batallas, el Ejército Rojo ha hecho retroceder a los invasores alemanes hasta la frontera oeste de Rusia. Sin embargo, los alemanes se preparan para llevar a cabo un gran contraataque. El Cuartel General del Ejército Rojo envía a un grupo de jóvenes soldados, con edades comprendidas entre los 23 y los 25 años, detrás de las líneas enemigas, para informar sobre los movimientos del enemigo. Su señal de llamada será "Estrella".
A story about love, hate and loneliness, depicting several days from the life of two brothers. They work as track walkers on a railway somewhere in rural Russia.
The films hero is a metal worker named Ignat who is as strong and tough as the steel that his sprawling factory produces in the Ural Mountains. Its a great cheerless environment; life is arduous and dangerous; conditions at the plant are nearly subhuman. The only excitement in the grimy industrial town is provided by robbing a train at gunpoint or stealing sheep from the Bashkiri tribe. The most renowned diversion, however, is the annual fist fight between the strongest metal worker and the strongest miner from the region. Against his better judgment, but with the support of his co-workers, Ignat decides to take part in this perilous venture.
A drama set at the end of the Forties and the beginning of the Fifties. In a distant garrison town, life proceeds at a measured past. The officers drink and debauch, while the soldiers serve. Meanwhile accidentally unleashed human emotions are suffocated by the atmosphere of cruelty and hypocrisy.
