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When you love, your life changes beyond recognition. When you are loved, you may not even suspect it. But if your life turns into a continuous nightmare, if every minute you are waiting for news of the death of another loved one - such love cannot be overlooked. It is only necessary to calculate the lover. And as soon as possible.
The village blacksmith was expelled from his native village. As a result, he finds himself in Moscow, more precisely, on Khitrovka. However, he does not submit to fate, but makes a career — becomes a millionaire breeder.
They are charming. They are lucky. They're devilishly resourceful. They are real professionals. This couple skillfully changes their appearance and styles, enters the image with great artistry and leaves no traces behind.
The black room. Enclosed space. The action unfolds as if slowly. You understand that every word, every gesture of the heroes have a special, secret, as yet absolutely incomprehensible meaning. But you feel: you can't miss a single nuance. There are two or three heroes in each novel. There is a real drama between them, which ends with an explosion. Sometimes figuratively, and sometimes literally. Time is continuous: there is no yesterday and tomorrow.
Maria and Andrey Bystrov are investigators of the Investigative Committee. After learning that her husband cheated on her, Maria meets with a former admirer to spite him. Soon she realizes that she is pregnant. The Bystrovs' marriage is collapsing, but they have to conduct a new investigation together. A businessman was poisoned. The poison was in a cake that his wife Elena brought him from work: she explains that the dessert was left to her as a gift by one of the patients. The suspect is quickly located. But when the case seems solved, a new drama occurs in Elena's life. It becomes clear that she has a secret enemy who has come up with a sophisticated revenge plan. But Elena can't remember who she crossed the road to.
As a child, Liza Zaretskaya saw her parents die. She couldn't speak for two years after that and learned to hear people's thoughts. Liza grew up and became a therapist. Her daughter Dasha inherited her gift. Dasha has just graduated from school and wants to study psychology. Albert Kling, a friend of Liza's, is doing complex psychological research and performs tests on Dasha, much to Liza's displeasure. Suddenly Dasha's classmate Ksenya, who was also Liza's patient, goes missing. Police Captain Mikhail Zhikharev asks Liza and Dasha to help his investigation. Dasha's boyfriend Mitya, Kling's assistant joins the search. But Dasha goes missing too.
Anthology film in two parts based on Ray Bradbery's stories "The Black Ferris" and "The Scythe".
MURA operative Konstantin Troshin returns from the front after the victory in the Great Patriotic War and finds out that he no longer works in the police. The reason is a conflict with an influential general of the NKGB of the USSR. But Troshin cannot imagine his life without the police. He manages to get a job as a precinct officer in the most disadvantaged area of Moscow — Maryina Grove.
The watchman is a joker of the garage cooperative, he is happy to tell funny stories from his life to the guests. He tells a variety of people who come to his lodge. By nature, he is such a philosopher, with an incomprehensible confusing past. He is an expert in many fields. And as the film progresses, it becomes clear that he understands art, philosophy, cinema, and is able to express his opinion effectively. And so he tells the guests different stories. And each story is a separate series, with its own beginning, culmination and denouement. And the main character unites all these stories. And an ironic attitude to all these events.
Anya, a kind hardworking girl, lives with her mother Irina in the village of Opushkino. Irina has been working tirelessly all her life to ensure a happy future for her daughter, but the family is barely making ends meet.