Nina Doni

At the heart of the story is a rural schoolteacher who, in 1944, leaves his native Bessarabia as the Red Army advances with heavy fighting. The gentle, cultured Sebastian Radu has every reason to avoid meeting the so-called liberators. And not just because one of the new regime’s first measures will be a background check, and Radu will have to write “noble” in the “social origin” field. The point is, our protagonist already has some experience dealing with representatives of the “new world.”

During the lunch break, the construction girls invite the pianist Marina to their roof. They talk about their dreams, about happiness. Marina will have her first concert soon. When she returned to her room and sat down at the piano, passersby stopped outside her window to listen to music.

A demobilized soldier, Călin Șaptefraț, returns to his war-torn Moldovan village. Before the war, he was the district champion in the traditional Moldovan wrestling, and now, despite his injuries, he is determined to revive the village’s sporting life. His energy and determination inspire many of his fellow villagers...

Jonah's merry journey to the fair, where he wanted to buy a barrel.

Anna works as a telegram courier. Her personal life with her husband, Sergey, is falling apart. The only thing keeping them connected is their young son, Antoshka. Like something out of a fairy tale, Anna receives a telegram from Alyokhin, a former classmate who has always loved her. He invites her to move in with him to a new apartment he has just received. Will Anna be able to leave everything behind and start a new life with someone who truly loves her?

The fates of two women: Ilinka, a member of the partisan movement, the mother of two adopted children; Varvara— the chairman of the collective farm, secretary of the district party committee...

The director's autobiographical film about a distant hungry childhood after the war, where his mother became the main character...

Nurse Yuliya and her husband Radu live happily, and the only thing they miss is children. Out of her kindness, Yuliya settled a new employee, Vera, in the house, who was experiencing a breakup with a loved one. It seemed that nothing could interfere with family happiness, but as luck would have it, Radu was bewitched by the beauty of Vera.

Old friends, former front—line soldiers, suddenly quarreled in earnest: Peter Sorbu, the head of the carpet factory construction, quite sincerely believes that the factory should be built first, and the town for workers is the second thing; architect Anton Grecu also sincerely does not understand how people will fulfill the plan if they have nowhere to live, and in the end defends the priority construction of the town.

A young investigator undertakes to investigate another robbery. The elements of crime are obvious: a fair amount was stolen from the plant’s cash register. The investigator has two suspects — a cashier and a career criminal.

One can achieve a free life only in an irreconcilable struggle against the class enemy. With this slogan, after being wounded, Mikhail returns from the civil war to one of the Moldovan villages, creates a Council of the Poor and makes the first decision — to plow the landlords' lands... The film takes place in the spring of 1917.

A story about a boy walking across the town following sun.

The young soldier Vasily Lemekhov has returned from the hospital and met a young woman Natasha in Chisinau.

A difficult historical period in the life of the Moldovan people, who fought in the 1930s against the yoke of royal Romania and for reunification with the Soviet Union.

The events take place in 1919 in Bessarabia.