Based on Valentin Rasputin's story of the same title. The winter of 1945. In a village on the Angara embankment the women wait the return of their husbands from the front. The young soldier Andrei Guskov, who fled from the hospital, returns as a deserter. In his remote winter hut only his wife Nastena visits him : she is the only person whom he can trust with his life - of an eternal fugitive doomed to loneliness. Only she loves him. She lives in the present, remembers the past and does not believe in the future. She will have a child, and to the entire village she is an unfaithful wife who did not wait for her husband to return...
One soviet programmer has problems in his job. He is laughed at by women, they think he is too awkward. His chiefs are giving no rest to him. In addition to that they give him very difficult project to be done very soon. Overcoming himself he does impossible. After closing away in his office and spending there several days and nights without sleep he finds some solution and immediately fells asleep. After waking up after very surrealistic dream he surprises of what has happened while he was asleep. And the miracles have just started for him…
Two people: Igor, an ex-athlete living aimlessly and chasing rubles to get drunk and Vera, a dowdy librarian, try to find their luck by planning to fall in love with each other based on "psychological conditioning".
In an ordinary Soviet apartment, where an ordinary Soviet family lives, suddenly ... the donkey breaks in. All attempts to expel the animal end in vain. Neither the police, nor the veterinary service, nor even the local hooligan can help. And only the ubiquitous film-goers, who needed an animal for filming a movie, manage to put the donkey out of the apartment.
Caballero y empleado oficial, Ilya Ilych Oblómov (Oleg Tabakov) se ha convertido en un hombre abúlico y negligente, pasando los días en el sofá de su casa campestre, durmiendo y haciendo pereza, mientras su mayordomo Zakhar (Andrei Popov), se ocupa de todo lo que necesita mientras le reclama actividad. Será la llegada de su antiguo amigo, Andrei Stolz (Yuri Bagatyryov) y el conocer a Olga Ilyinskaya (Elena Solovei), lo que quizás de un vuelco a la vida de este aristócrata malogrado.
According to the story of the same name by Pavel Nilin. At 20, Tonya gave birth to a daughter — alone, without a husband. At 30 — personal happiness became an unattainable dream. She devoted herself to her beloved daughter. But at the age of 40, life seemed to make a circle and return to its starting point. There is nothing left to lose — which means you can take a chance, start all over again. Mom is married for the first time, and it’s hard for a selfish daughter to put up with this...
Mikhail llega con su esposa a la casa de campo de un amigo para pasar el fin de semana y allí se encuentra con la mujer a la que amó de joven. Este encuentro le hace añorar su juventud y las ilusiones perdidas.
