Yuriy Batalov

Adventures of a boy and his older friend during the time of October Revolution in Belarus.

Investigator for especially important cases, police lieutenant colonel Andrei Basov arrives from Moscow to investigate the case of a cash register robbery.

Based on the story of the same name by Ivan Kataev.

A story of a crime which was committed and solved during one night only.

The clash of two styles of approaches to people, science, and business is the main conflict of the film. Both central characters - the head of the Altai complex space station and the experiment leader Andrei - are people devoted to science. But Altai is an emotional person, he manages to take care of people, forgive them their small shortcomings and mistakes. Andrey is dry, sometimes even rude to his employees. His absorption in work sometimes borders on selfishness. This gives rise to a clash with Touma, a gifted physicist, but a man of a different plane.

Famous weightlifter Nikolai Basargin is striving to overcome a streak of failures and to end his sports career by setting a new record. The coach does not believe in Basargin's abilities and is trying to replace him on the national team with a young athlete...

The respected chairman Yakov Rusak, upon retiring, nominates his son Alexei, who has graduated from university and defended his dissertation, as his successor. However, the younger Rusak, who has his own vision for restructuring his village, does not intend to continue his father's traditions in leading the collective farm...

Patriotic War. Sattar carries his wounded friend mikola back to his native village, but it has already been seized by the nazis. the parents hide them both in the house. there sattar meets marina. suddenly the nazis appear and, not finding any soldiers, take away mikola’s father. to save him the uzbek youth gives himself up. but it is too late, mikola’s father has already been shot. the prisoners are thrown behind the barbed wire. sattar escapes from the camp and becomes a partisan codenamed kazbek. after the war he returns to the byelorussian village and meets marina again, but she is a totally different person. the war has mangled her soul. sattar leaves the village embittered, but he will never forget the song about love and war which he heard in byelorussia during those inferno years.