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The end of the 1980s. The decline of the Soviet era. The wind of change swept away everyone and everything in its path. Taking advantage of the instability of the situation in the Soviet state, the CIA announced an award to anyone who reveals the names of current residents of the USSR in Western countries. The traitor was promised a million dollars and political asylum abroad. The First and Second departments of the KGB (intelligence and counterintelligence) were seriously concerned that there might be many who wanted to get this money. The KGB decided to slip the Americans a fake traitor to the Motherland, choosing an impeccable candidate among their own employees. Operation Phantom has begun…
The love story of the son of Imam Shamil Jamalutdin and Lisa Olenina against the backdrop of the dramatic events of the military history of Russia in the first half of the 19th century. Jamalutdin went down in history as a "great hostage", and the film is an attempt to answer the question: a hostage of big politics or big love. The historical context of the decline of the Nikolaev era, against which the story of love and betrayal, honor and duty, service to the motherland and loyalty to this word unfolds, will become the key to the film.
Nadia is a company director and puts all her efforts into supporting her family. At home, though, they don't pay attention to her: her husband Sergey spends all his time on his cell phone chatting with someone and her daughter Nastia doesn't even talk to her.
A long time ago, as a twenty-year-old young man, Grigory committed a terrible act, because of which his conscience torments him up to the present time. Today he lives far from big cities with his old mother, who wants to help her only son with all her might, but does not know how – and suffers a lot because of this.
In the winter of 1939, during the Soviet-Finnish war, a soldier named Zarif from Tatarstan found himself in the crosshairs of a Finnish sniper. Zarif sings a sad Tatar song, which he sang with his beloved Kashifa in peacetime. The Finnish sniper Ziyatdin turned out to be a Tatar, to whom his mother sang this song as a child. This is how the Soviet soldier Zarif and the Finnish sniper Ziyatdin met and became friends. Who are they - enemies or brothers? These are eternal questions to which there is only one answer: the most important thing in your life is love. Everything in your life has meaning only when there is Love in it.
This stunningly beautiful and thin girl was very unlucky: abandoned and deceived by her husband — director, without money, housing, among rude, lustful men and treacherous women, among the alien and cruel world of money and brute force. She needs to remain herself — pure and refined. And now, when it seems that there is no more strength to live, love will come — big and comprehensive, which will fill to capacity, and it turns out that the whole previous life was a preparation for meeting her.
Border guard Andrei discovers hiding places where drug dealers hide huge quantities of heroin while crossing the Afghan border. In revenge for their colossal losses, the bandits decide to execute Andrey. Miraculously escaping death, he not only settles accounts with his executioners and exposes a major drug mafia, but also wins his love.
Fitil is a popular Soviet/Russian television satirical/comedy short film series which ran for about 500 episodes. Some of the episodes were aimed at children, and were called Фитилёк, Fitilyok, Little Fuse. Each issue contained from the few short segments: documentary, fictional and animated ones. Directed by various artists, including Leonid Gaidai who presented his famous trio of Nikulin, Vitsin and Morgunov into the cast. It was called in USSR as "the anecdotes from the Soviet government".