Sergey Shkoda

Upon returning home from his Grand Embassy, Peter the Great enters into a prolonged war with Sweden to secure access to the Baltic Sea. His path to victory is paved with setbacks, treachery, and deceit. Only by overcoming these challenges will he become Emperor, find true love, and establish Russia as a great empire.

The estate of young Count Mikhail Razumovskiy is mercilessly plundered by French foragers. And the young man is saved from death by the Ghost, a lone partisan returning home and protecting civilians from marauders along the way. Dreaming of revenge, Mikhail sets off with the Ghost. He will have to learn the difference between heroism and duty from his own experience, become the Ghost's student, and then independently end his fight, preventing a French counterattack and saving many lives on both sides.

Moscow, 1902. The famous director Konstantin Stanislavsky, in search of inspiration for staging a new play, decides to get acquainted with the life of the city "bottom". He turns to Vladimir Gilyarovsky, a recognized expert on the Moscow slums, for help.

The action takes place during the Great Patriotic War. The protagonist, a Siberian hunter Gavriil Sobinov, volunteers for the front after learning that his son Semyon, a young lieutenant, is missing. Gavriil wants to fights the enemy and find his son, but instead of the front lines, he finds himself in a supply platoon. He proves himself a hero in his very first combat and, after training at the sniper school, gets to the front lines. Gavriil is made commander of the sniper group. He continues the search for his son. The story of a German sniper Werner develops in parallel. He also ends up at the front with his son Dietrich fighting alongside him. A clash between the sniper fathers, whom fate is inexorably bringing together, is inevitable...

A young German, Werner Müller, turns out to be a volunteer in the neurological department of an ordinary St. Petersburg hospital. A foreigner, overwhelmed by the impulse to help all the sick and needy, has a long and eventful day ahead of him. Every now and then, finding himself in comical situations and making his way through misunderstandings, the volunteer discovers all the facets of the Russian national character.

In late 18th-century Russia, village life is shaped by a fusion of rural superstitions, pagan beliefs and traces of Orthodox Christianity. Twin girls are violently separated when one is believed to be possessed, accused of draining the vitality of her sister. Meanwhile, a young man, branded a freak and outcast, obsessively constructs mechanical wings in a desperate attempt to fly like Icarus. Overseeing this turbulent world are Europeanised feudal lords who maintain brutal, cynical control over the peasants, exacerbating class tensions.

Antarctica, early 1980s. Following an emergency at the Soviet polar station "Voshod," the crew finds themselves in an extreme situation: temperatures are plummeting to minus 70 degrees Celsius, they are surrounded by an icy wasteland stretching for thousands of kilometers, and immediate evacuation is impossible. The station chief, Serov, makes a series of unconventional decisions that threaten to trigger yet another catastrophe. Realizing this, Rodin—a member of the team—understands that to save his fellow crew members, he must defy orders and take responsibility for the team himself.