Viktor Shulgin
1921 - 1992Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession
Leonid Gayday
Aleksandr Demyanenko, Yuriy Yakovlev
A scientist builds a time machine and accidentally sends his apartment complex manager and a petty burglar to 16th century Moscow, while Tsar Ivan the Terrible travels to 1973.
Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession
Мертвые души
Mikhail Shveitser
Aleksandr Trofimov, Aleksandr Kalyagin
Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov plans to buy the titles to “dead souls” and use them as collateral to obtain a large loan. He comes to a small provincial town and begins to proposition the local landowners. These landowners are revealed to be so petty and avaricious that not even Chichikov’s amazing offer can be worked to his advantage on them. Some stall, some refuse for no obvious reasons, some promise and then renege, and others want “in on the deal.” In the end, Chichikov, having concluded that the landowners are a hopeless lot, leaves for other regions.
Dead Souls
The Stepmother
Oleg Bondarev
Tatyana Doronina, Leonid Nevedomsky
Based on novel of the same name by Mariya Khalfina. In Pavel Olevantsev’s family suddenly comes news that his daughter by another woman was orphaned. Pavel did not know about the existence of the girl, nor could his wife know about it... It is not easy to decide to take the child to his house. But it will be much more difficult to endear the girl to them, to return her the joy of childhood and the belief that she is not alone...
The Stepmother
Zigzag of Success
Eldar Ryazanov
Evgeni Leonov, Irina Skobtseva
Photo studio "Contemporary" in a provincial town lives with its everyday problems. The director is concerned over the failure to fulfill the planned targets, receptionist Alevtina wants to get married, and photographer Vladimir Oreshnikov dreams of becoming a professional photographer. But suddenly luck smiles on Oreshnikov. He takes 20 rubles form the worker's mutual aid fund, buys a government lottery bond and wins 10,000 rubles. Oreshnikov wants to receive the win himself, but his colleagues object to him, because the money that he spent on the bond were public, hence the win should be divided equally among all workers. It creates a controversial situation, which is successfully resolved on the very eve of the New Year, under the chiming clock...
Zigzag of Success
You and Me
Larisa Shepitko
Leonid Dyachkov, Yuri Vizbor
Two young talented neurosurgeons — Pyotr and Sasha — are enthusiastically working on a complex medical experiment. But in search of stability and a better life, Pyotr goes to work in Stockholm, Sasha becomes a major official. Pyotrr's overseas life does not add up, and he returns to Moscow. Realizing that his friend has a completely different life, Pyotr goes to Siberia, where he works on an ambulance. There he meets a girl with a brain disease, the study of which he had once been involved in, but did not finish the job. Feeling in vain of a lived, failed life, a sense of professional guilt in front of this sick girl, whom no one can help, torment him, and he again recalls his true destiny.
You and Me
Оптимистическая трагедия
Samson Samsonov
Margarita Volodina, Boris Andreyev
1918 year. A woman commissar has been appointed from the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party to the Russian warship Gromoboi, which is ruled by anarchist sailors. The leader of the ship is the anarchist Vozhak. The Commissioner was instructed to reorganize the naval detachment into the First Sailor Regiment. She faces a difficult task: to win the authority of the sailors and eradicate anarchy. Of the remaining officers on the ship — lieutenant Bering, who served in the tsarist fleet on the battleship "Emperor Paul I". He must become the commander and, together with the sent commissar, lead the regiment to the front in the Black Sea region.
An Optimistic Tragedy
Тактика бега на длинную дистанцию
Evgeniy Vasilev, Rudolf Fruntov
Georgi Korolchuk, Viktor Zozulin
О подвиге врача Ивана Русака, одного из лучших бегунов страны, который во время Великой Отечественной Войны, используя тактику бега на длинной дистанции, отвёл фашистских карателей от партизанского лагеря.
Tactics of Long-Distance Running
Воскресный папа
Naum Birman
Дмитрий Гранкин, Yuri Duvanov
Мама и папа маленького мальчика любят друг друга, но из-за жизненных семейных мелочей и не без «помощи» тещи разошлись. И теперь мама и бабушка разрешают отцу видеться с сыном только по воскресеньям. На какие только хитрости не идет мальчишка, чтобы соединить родителей…
Weekend dad
Troublemaker
Vladimir Rogovoy
Vadim Andreyev, Natalya Kaznacheyeva
A graduate of the village school Pyotr Gorokhov from the village of Dyadkovo comes to Moscow to enter a prestigious economic university; he succeeds, albeit literally by a miracle. However, Petya was always helped out by chance and mysticism. Compared to other students (mostly Muscovites and residents of other big cities), this guy from the province stands out sharply — both in manners, in reprimand, and in behavior. Accustomed to defend their principles to the end of Gorokhov was called Balamut (Troublemaker). Nevertheless, in the student community, he quickly mastered and became a leader. Everything would be fine, but he has two problems — unrequited love for the dark-skinned beauty from Cuba and English...
Troublemaker
