Vitaliy Leonov

Foma, a kolkhoz employee, decides to build a pay toilet in his village. Bit not all the villagers like the idea...

Twenty-year-old Bob rides 1000 km to Moscow on his vintage motorbike to collect a bad debt for his boss; the city chews up and spits out this naive country boy, whose head is full of Easy Rider dreams.

In the new Russia, former middle class citizens find themselves out in the dumps. Literally. They build homes, elect their own government, work, beg, scavenge, date and fight all while living in a huge city dump. Some try to beat the odds and return to society, but it seems that there is only one place left for them to go...

The story of a player who entered the environment of professional gamblers in the hope of breaking a big jackpot.

A movie about very strange events which happened in the ordinary school after Vasya Lopotukhin got late to a math lesson because of his meeting with aliens.

“We are all from the same trust,” the old peasant replies to the driller’s foreman when he, justifying himself for the wounds inflicted on the ground, refers to the neighboring trust. “And we have no other.”

The story about a very small god-forgotten village in Siberia reflects the history of Russia from the beginning of the century till early 80s. Three generations try to find the land of happiness and to give it to the people. One builds the road through taiga to the star over horizon, the second 'build communism' and the third searches for oil. The oil is found but the destruction of the old cemetry and everything the people of the village cared for followed to get the 'black treasure' of Siberia.

A story about a group of children and their life set at the small Russian seashore town in the year of 1913.

The heroes of the film are students of a pedagogical university, those who, after a year or two, have to carry knowledge to schoolchildren, "to sow the rational, good, eternal." In the meantime, student practice. True, the practice is not quite ordinary, because for the first time students leave far from the walls of their own university, for the first time they meet with students in the classroom not in the presence of their teachers, those with whom life encounters them daily at the institute, but with those who have been working for more than a year at school.

2차 대전이 한창 기승을 부릴 1942년 7월. 나치 군대가 승승장구하여 스탈린그라드에 접근을 하게 된다. 러시아는 패전에 패전을 거듭하여 계속 후퇴를 하는 도중에 돈강 어귀에 이르게 되고, 식량과 주둔지가 여의치 않고 부상병마저 그들의 짐이 되어간다. 별다른 대응책이 없는 최악의 상황에서 러시아군은 주변 주민들에게 식량과 잠자리를 구걸하는 지경에 이르게 되고, 서로 협력하는 처지가 된 러시아군과 돈강 주민들은 독일군 저지를 위한 마지막 처절한 전투를 벌이게 되는데...

The film includes three short stories based on the stories of Mikhail Zoshchenko: "Crime and Punishment", "Fun Adventure", and "Wedding Event" about the negative phenomena of the provincial life of the young country of the Soviets: stupidity, drunkenness, money-grubbing, lack of spirituality.