Valeriy Poletayev

Basically, the action of the film takes place in a madhouse. But the absurdity has no boundaries, it has only a cause. And in this total madness the characters try to find the answers.

Based on the stories of Ivan Bunin "Rusya", "When I first...", "Swing".

The hero of this lyrical and optimistic story, former front-line soldier Shodi Makhmadaliev, has worked as a shepherd for many years. He loves his work. Yet life, surprisingly, is not easy even here in the степь. And when things grow especially heavy on the old soldier’s heart, he turns to the memories of his wartime years and holds on to hope—for something better, something worthy of the memory of his friends who never returned from the front…

A crime has been committed. The worst thing is murder... Who is the culprit? What are the motives for the crime? These and many related questions face police colonel Drobyshev and senior lieutenant Samarin. During the investigation, they encounter young people whose spiritual poverty is terrible in its moral consequences.

A beautiful blonde is killed in the women's restroom of a bar-restaurant; after a long and dangerous chase, the murderer-motorcyclist manages to escape from the police...

The permanent chairman of one of Ukraine's leading collective farms, a former front-line soldier, is caught off guard by the unexpected: the spring is unusually difficult and does not bode well for the harvest, his health has deteriorated, and his best foreman has been transferred to a struggling farm. However, Zakhar Platonovich does not complain to his superiors and relies solely on his fellow villagers...

Summer 1944, Belarus. A group of Soviet soldiers was tasked with urgently delivering our scout from the German rear across the front line. Of the three attendants, not everyone was able to stay alive and complete the task.

A young cashier of one of the enterprises with a large sum of money disappears. A group of employees of the Criminal Investigation Department is involved in the work.

Intelligence-diversionary group of athletes who know how to shoot snipers, run, jump, feel free in the water and under water, to withstand the monstrous load of hand-to-hand fights, will be able to reach the goal only going together, passing the task as a relay. Seven of them. Among them is a girl swimmer. It will be the most difficult, the last stage of the journey. The plot is based on the real facts of the great Patriotic war.

A bully, a middle class boy and a country boy are called up for military service and being trained in the landing force.