Natalya Vavilova

The Vultures on the Road - an organized gang of robbers and murderers, which includes even the police. They kill the truck driver's friend, whose wife is expecting a baby. The police (which is cooperating with the bandits), of course, does nothing, so he begins to take revenge on the scum, crushing their cars by his truck.

A barman from an elite bar for Soviet nomenklatura is greedy and not a true Leninist at all. Someone who in the Soviet Union often becomes an 'easy pray' for evil CIA agents. The barman from the "Golden Anchor" is about to become a CIA agent himself but his friends and families help him to find some Soviet patriotism inside his soul.

Train driver suddenly felt sick and train itself is not quite fine. Without a driver it runs unstoppable and now it's passengers are who should save a train and their own lives.

A chairman of a Kolkhoz tries to organize a musical band in order to prevent kolkhoz girls to escape into a big city.

30 years after the end of World War II, a Soviet and an American journalist meet again for realizing post war paths of their countries.

Movie directed by Boris Rytsarev.

Polosa vezeniya (literally) 'Streak of Luck' is the fifth film in a Mosfilm "youth" anthology series and comprises three short stories. The first story, 'Vizit' (The Visit) directed by film maker turned politician Yevgeni Gerasimov tells the story of a rural boy visiting his former village girlfriend, now living in Moscow. Next comes a short film by Aleksandr Majorov called 'Zolotye rybki' (Goldfishes) which is based on a story of a magical goldfish brought from a provincial pet store by the late Russian historian and science-fiction and fantasy writer Kir Bulychyov. The final segment and the title of the film, 'Polosa vezeniya' (Streak of Luck) tells the story of a member of staff at a research institute who is offered the job of the department head, but has second thoughts when he discovers the previous boss was unfairly dismissed.

세 명의 시골 아가씨가 청춘의 꿈을 걸고 모스크바에 상경하여 도시생활에 익숙해지려는 그녀들의 하루하루는 자본주의의 여성과 다를 것이 없다. 여주인공 카테리나는 전문학교의 자격시험에 실패, 내년엔 합격하려고 노력하는 모범적 여공이다. 대학교수인 큰 아버지가 바캉스간 사이 큰 집을 지키게 된 그녀는 단짝인 류드미라와 안토니라 두사람과 함께 상류사회의 아가씨들을 행사하며 파티를 연다. 이 날 카테리나는 TV 카메라 맨 루돌프를 만나 사랑에 빠져 육체 교섭을 갖고, 대학 교수의 딸로 알고 결혼을 약속한 남자는 어느 날 우수한 여공을 취재하러 공장을 찾다가 그 우수한 여공은 다름 아닌 카테리나임을 알고는 실망하고 그의 어머니가 나타나 자기 아들은 엘리트 딸과 결혼해야한다고 큰 소리친다. 카테리나는 이때 임신하고 있었지만 그 남자와는 깨끗이 헤어진다. 그로부터 18년이 지나 미혼모는 공장장으로 승진한다. 그녀는 처자있는 남자와 정당히 바람도 피우나 옛날 자기를 버린 여자의 출세을 알고 다시 접근하여는 치사한 남자의 속셈을 알고 그녀는 단호히 고개를 돌린다. 그녀는 다시 기차칸에서 사귄 중년 숙년 기계공 고샤를 만나 그의 기묘한 매력에 사로잡혀 사랑에 빠지는데, 루돌프가 나타나 그녀의 높은 신분을 알게 된 고샤는 그만 그녀의 곁을 떠난다. 하지만 옛 친구의 남편에게 이끌려 돌아온 고샤와 카테리나는 감격적인 화해를 이룬다.

They fell in love and got married - border guard Pavel Glazkov and medical school student Liza. And now he must return to his duty station. They are sure that the separation will be short-lived. And in the morning the war began ...

An omnibus of comical shorts.

Soviet spies are delivering top-secret mail to Moscow.

At high school, some pupils decide to play a 'practical joke' on their teacher. On the day of midterm exam all of them say they she had told them the wrong date for the exam. She almost believed them, but then asked a girl known for her honesty and the girl could not lie. As a result everyone in the class gets an F for that midterm. That's a real problem for some of them - with an F they cannot have perfect GPA and will not enter prestige Universities. They want revenge...

Peter the Great takes a Russian man of African heritage - Ibrahim Petrovich Hannibal - under his wing as the tsar builds his grand navy. After having a disastrous affair in France, Ibrahim vows to never fall in love again, until he sees the daughter of a wealthy boyar. Peter the Great insists the two be married, but Ibrahim goes against the tsar's wishes, refusing to force her to marry him since she doesn't consent. When another man tries to marry her, however, Ibrahim's loyalties and generous nature are put to the test.