The final part of Mikhalkov's trilogy about Divisional Commander Kotov finds him returning home during World War II having been betrayed, narrowly escaped execution for treason and nearly reduced to dust in a prison camp. Only to discover that everything has changed and he will have to fight again for his name, for his honor, and for his love.
Начинающий кинорежиссер снял короткометражку по мало известному автобиографическому рассказу русского писателя-эмигранта Алексея Зыкова, покинувшего родину с первой эмигрантской волной. Приехав в Париж, режиссер решает показать фильм писателю в расчете на его поддержку в съемках полнометражной картины по новелле писателя. Однако Алексей Зыков, уничтоживший этот рассказ перед отъездом из России, не проявил никакого энтузиазма по поводу увиденного на экране, да и сам режиссер понял, что он прикоснулся к личной драме писателя...
Old Russian Lady
Simon se educó en un durísimo orfanato y allí tuvo que aprender muchos trucos. Años después, era el más famoso ladrón del mundo, a punto de completar cincuenta millones de dólares en su cuenta. Los mismos empresarios rusos a los que robó un valioso microchip, le contratan para una difícil misión: arrebatar a una bella científica el secreto de la fusión nuclear.
Анна Марковна бабушка
1947 ... The Savchenko family returns to Moscow from evacuation - husband and wife with Kostya's little son. They settle with Grandma Kostya in a huge communal apartment. Street meets the boy with a flock of local boys. Then there were: the division of the territory with the "Sretensky"; trophy movie “Girl of my dreams”; a school with separate education, camp discipline and essays about the border guard Karatsyup. And the monetary reform of 1947, when all of their savings depreciated in an instant, and the boys let out boats from banknotes in puddles.
Un condecorado y reverenciado héroe de guerra disfruta de la compañía de su familia en un tranquilo día estival, cuando de pronto recibe la visita inesperada de un hombre al que no veía desde hacía años. Conforme transcurre el día y se acerca la noche, el coronel descubrirá el verdadero motivo de la visita. Lúcida denuncia de las purgas stalinistas.
Aunt Tasya
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The Hedgehog and the Bear decide to wipe the dust off the stars so their brightness won't fade out.
The action takes place on the estate of a major, where his friends, inveterate bachelors, and the sisters of the major, who came to marry him with his niece, meet. But the niece has long loved Lieutenant Edmund, and then a plan matures to persuade the major to marry, at the last moment, replacing him with the lieutenant. To do this, the ladies have woven insidious intrigues. At the end of the play, the mutual rejection of the ladies and the hussar develops into sympathy and even love ...
Turusina
TV version of the Vakhtangov's Theater play. The plot makes fun of secular society and shows what can turn cynical attempts to deceive people if they want to get to power and money.
General's Wife
A despairing scholar sells his soul to Satan in exchange for one night with a beautiful young woman.
Antonina
Major timber merchant Yegor Bulychyov is terminally ill. In his house, he is surrounded by insignificant and greedy people, impatiently waiting for his death. Clever and insightful Yegor understands that he lived his whole life with strangers. He protests in his own way against the dissimulation and hypocrisy of the "masters" - the clergy, liberals, against the foundations of the bourgeois society that is going to collapse. Bulychyov's dying curse drowns his class in the powerful sounds of a revolutionary song.
Nadezhda
The war is over. The Red Army soldier Pyotr tries to find himself in a peaceful life. He takes the place of an accountant, and long-time friend Nazar, who has already grown to the post of the head of a collective farm, helps him in this. Together they achieve high performance indicators of their wards, skillfully solving controversial issues and emerging from confused situations.
Galina Polevaya
About the labor exploits of gold miners, the old partisan Fedor Potanin and his son, the leader Stepan.
