Vladimir Krasnopolskiy

A movie about the gas mine workers in the scorching hot desert of Karakum, Turkmenistan.

Musician and Scientist from the Soviet Russia goes to Türkmenistan to explore and learn about Turkmen National Music. Whilst drifitng through the desert and writing down the music he learns, he comes the across the son of the legend: Karkara.

Based on the story by V. Aleksandrov, "Wandering Currents". In the laboratory of a research institute, important experimental work is being conducted on the use of solar energy. A key figure in the search for new scientific solutions is the young scientist Khatamov. The story explores his relationships with colleagues and the love that is inseparable from youth...

The film tells about the people who built a full-flowing river in the very heart of the Black Desert — the Karakum Canal, linking the waters of the Amu Darya and the Caspian Sea. Life and work in the desert are far from easy, yet the film focuses not on the harshness of everyday life but on the moral atmosphere within the working collective.

The very first work of a young scientist Igor Panteleyev caused a sensation. Not surprisingly, they are interested in foreign intelligence. Soviet security officers are taking measures to protect the scientist. The name of Panteleyev disappears from the pages of newspapers and magazines. The scientist is transferred to work in another research institute, changing his surname to Evdokimov. But due to chance, foreign spies found a researcher.

1920. Western countries are trying to use the Bukhara khanate — a former protectorate of tsarist Russia — to fight the Soviet regime. Arrived in Tashkent by M. V. Frunze and V. V. Kuibyshev to organize the masses to fight counter-revolutionaries and agents of foreign intelligence services.

Life in a distant south town become to difficult for the young girl Ksana from Moscow...

The post-war years. Yakut hunter Bykadyrov discovers mysterious footprints in the taiga leading to a village where the head of a geological expedition has just been murdered. A group of state security officers arrives from Moscow to investigate the crime.