Olga Volkova

Eisenstein gets in trouble for shooting a grouse. He is told that he must go to prison for his crime. However, his friend has invited him to an aristocratic ball. Eisenstein, despite being married, wants to go to the ball to meet women. Eisenstein lies to his wife. He tells her that he is going to prison but actually he goes to the ball. His story arises the suspicion of his wife. His wife devises a plot to catch her womanizing husband.

In Russia, in 1907, a rich lenient husband of a loose unfaithful woman is brutally murdered. She and her two lovers are suspects, but what about the stranger she met just before the murder? With no friends left, she and the stranger bond.

Fedot the Shooter is sent by the Czar to find some special food for the foreign ambassador's visit. During the hunt Fedot meets his love Marusya - the magical bird-woman. Evil Czar and his no-less-evil sidekick General with the help of the local witch Yaga try to eliminate Fedot by giving him more and more complex quests and to take Marusya to Tsar's palace. Marusya helps Fedot to solve the quests successfully.

Based on the comedy of the same name by the Serbian writer Bronislav Nusic. The action takes place at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.

The story of a woman returning from a labor camp. She is looking for a person, on whose denunciation she was arrested, in order to take revenge on him, but having completed her judgment, she realizes that revenge is meaningless.

The classic story about a musicians from Bremen is told in not so classical way.

In the town of Bryakhimov, noble but poor widow Harita Ignatyevna Ogudalova seeks to arrange marriages for her three daughters. She maintains an “open house”, hoping to attract gentlemen well-off enough to marry a dowry-less girl for love.

Kirill and Gulnara are looking for the legendary treasure of Ivan Grozny... Maybe they will find it, maybe not - but they will definitely find each other.

Platon is travelling by train to visit his father. He gets off to have lunch where he meets Vera, a waitress. He refuses to pay for the food after which a series of unfortunate events unfold for the pair.

Life changes for a Moscow worker when he's made Stalin's personal film projectionist but cannot tell his bride.

Every year on the International Women’s Day telephone networks transfer millions of phone calls and SMS messages. The vast majority of phone calls are addressed to the most important women in lives of everyone - to our mothers. But what would it be if because of enormous number of calls telephone network breaks down? What would we do? Someone would wait until network is rebuilt and would congratulate his mom in the evening or even the next day. But others, like the heroes of our movie, would change their plans to congratulate their moms just today ... personally ... as a kid!..

Anzhelika is a young waitress with one special quality - her libido goes sky high during the thunderstorm...

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This time Lesha, Slava, Kamil and Sasha go to St. Petersburg. And three of the four do not even know why they go there. But at some point it becomes clear that it does not matter - why. It is important that they go.

Victor is the owner of a trendy restaurant, but things are not going well in it. The only hope is for New Year's Eve, because all the tables are already booked, but December 31 comes and the chef and the whole team leave the restaurant. It would seem that everything is gone, and then Olesya, the owner of the kitchen at home in a village near Moscow, appears in the restaurant. She brought cakes that Victor had accidentally ordered from her and even managed to forget about it. Victor offers Olesya to become a chef for New Year's Eve. She refuses, Olesya promised her son Kirill a New Year's tale with fireworks. Victor persuades her to agree, he believes in her and knows that Olesya has a special gift — to awaken the best memories from people with her dishes. Will Olesya and Victor be able to perform a real New Year's miracle: feed all the guests with special dishes and fulfill the promise made to Kirill?

The Vasnetsov-Vasiliev family will go to an important celebration in Kislovodsk. However, the heroes do not even suspect what their journey will turn out to be.

Once upon a time, a young and cheerful painter named Makar was invited to the king's palace... There he saw a beautiful woman trying on a crown. Makar fell in love, but was expelled from the palace. After undergoing all kinds of trials and heroic deeds, the former painter came to the palace to ask for the princess's hand in marriage, but saw before him a capricious ugly woman—and realized that he had been enchanted by the servant Katya.

A film about the different destinies of the sixties during the period of perestroika. The young sociologist sacrificed his scientific career for the underground development of his ideas, which became common during the era of “perestroika”. This is a film about the “children of Khrushchev’s thaw” who took a breath of freedom after the 20th Party Congress...

The conceit is that Sherlock Holmes is, as in reality, a fictional creation of Arthur Conan Doyle, but that the place where his office would be is maintained by the brilliant detective Shirley Holmes, who both solves crimes and maintains a museum for people who think Sherlock Holmes is real -- accompanied by a phonograph playing music from the Livanov series which had not long ended. She is accompanied, as might be expected, by a woman Watson, and must fight off the affections of both a Scotland Yard inspector an a parody Latin lover from Spain.

A few days from the life of average brothel in early XX century Russia. Based on the classical novel by Aleksandr Kuprin.

Dragon is a bloody dictator, who kills every opponent. People live hopelessly, until Lancelot comes to save the beautiful Elsa. Lancelot can only win, if all people become free from fear, that is feeding the Dragon's power. Dragon's multiple personalities, ranging from a "dragon" to a "samurai" to a "Nazi", scare the hell out of all people, except Lancelot. Finally Dragon drops all his masks, to become the most dangerous of his incarnations - "himself". And the battle begins

The war burst into the peaceful life of three friends suddenly, forever changing their destinies. Each of them went to the front, leaving the most valuable things at home in order to fight for this most valuable thing. Surprisingly, they are helped to survive in this fiery hell of battles with fascism, music. Taking musical instruments with them, friends play to maintain the morale of fellow soldiers, as well as to compose the leitmotif of Victory so desired by all.

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A clever businessman intends to build a large commercial complex. But the bad luck is, there is no free space for this in the city center. Then the merchant incites selfish city officials to demolish the building of a boarding school for disabled children. But the children categorically disagree with this and defend their home.

An offended old lady curses a sleazy official so that he can't be bribed. The curse comes true... Now dirty money just burn in his hands. And that's right before the biggest bribe of his life! If the official doesn't get rid of the curse during the next 24 hours, he will face a serious punishment.

Two close friends working for a provincial TV channel dream of getting rich and popular in the capital. They persuade their cute colleague Nadia to participate in a TV reality show, the participants of which must find the lost treasures of Admiral Kolchak.

A drama based on a classic short story by Anton Chekhov.

Vasily Kutuzov, the namesake of the famous commander, ends up in a mental hospital because of his talent for making up jokes. Everyone in his family had this gift, and many suffered because of it. The authorities didn't like that the Kutuzovs were bothering people. Vasily's neighbors in the ward are all famous people who left a mark in history. So he amuses them until the doctors decide to cure him of this "disease"...

At the institute where the film's protagonist, sociologist Sergei Luzhin, works, an investigation is underway into his misconduct: he left confidential data at the factory where he was conducting a sociological survey. The contents of the data become known to the workshop staff, and a conflict arises when it becomes clear that the official head of the workshop, Ekaterina Mikhailovna, who got her position through nepotism, does not enjoy authority in the workshop and that there is an unofficial leader in the workshop — engineer Uglov.

Two people meet one another in a multi-million city...

An almanac of short feature films based on stories by Mikhail Mishin from the collection of short stories "Pause in a Major".

The protagonist is a teenager who inherited from his grandfather and grandmother a love of land, home, and all life that surrounds him. After his sudden disappearance, mysterious events begin to occur, which only a 12-year-old girl can penetrate into the secret.

One soviet programmer has problems in his job. He is laughed at by women, they think he is too awkward. His chiefs are giving no rest to him. In addition to that they give him very difficult project to be done very soon. Overcoming himself he does impossible. After closing away in his office and spending there several days and nights without sleep he finds some solution and immediately fells asleep. After waking up after very surrealistic dream he surprises of what has happened while he was asleep. And the miracles have just started for him…

Old skipper travels with his old ship called "Fortune" on the Russian river.

The case brings two older women together. Lonely and embittered by the whole world, Zhenya is forced to unite with the eccentric and good-natured Mila in order to get out of the circumstances in which they found themselves thanks to a chance acquaintance with two young frivolous neighbors.

In a small house that used to be a vegetable shop, there is a mother with two daughters and an old, sick woman in her care. The mother's life has not been easy. At her father's request, she married someone she did not love.

Kashtanov, professor of medicine and famous Moscow surgeon, is experiencing midlife crisis. Suddenly he decides to leave everything and escape to the countryside in order to spend some time with old friends.

About how Grandfather Gabaday helped Princess Manya and peasant son Gonza to correct their shortcomings.

Beginning with perestroika and reaching its peak after the demise of the Soviet Union, pessimistic youth sub-culture films abounded in Russia and the former republics. Anguely V Rayou is another example of these "youth without future" films. Based on the novel Two Notebooks by Piotr Kojevnikov, the action takes place in the Leningrad of 1975, when the "stagnation" era is at its peak. Two teenagers, Micha and Galia, are experiencing a slow death in the slums of the city. Galia's aunt is going crazy in her desperation. Micha's mother is killed by a drunk. One of their friends has committed suicide. These kids are typical of a generation wasted by alcohol and misfortune. Some are bound to become outcasts, some will be destroyed, and others will be sacrificed in Afghanistan. The title is ironic, as there is neither paradise nor angels in this story.

Sixteen-year-old Andrei Eremin considered himself a person who did not depend on the opinion of the majority, and was proud of it. And he had few friends. One day his imaginary independence collapsed - he believed slander and committed an act unworthy of a man - he easily believed the gossip spread by his classmates about Rita, with whom he had warm friendly relations, and even hastened to assure that he was indifferent to her. Having accidentally overheard a conversation between his comrades about himself, in which Valerka, his best friend, took part, he quarreled with him too. Time has passed. Rita, who was painfully experiencing a break with Andrei, found support, tenderness and understanding in Valerka, Eremin’s friend, he is simpler, without ambitions, but much more reliable and generous in spirit. And yet, after this story, a feeling of bitterness remained with them too - after all, Andrei was once their friend...

A glimpse into a few hours in the life of a soloist musician during the siege of Leningrad, in WWII. The Leningrad philharmonic is going to play Tchaikovsky's 5th Symphony, to be broadcast to England. Like his fellow musicians, the soloist is weak and half-starved, and doubts whether he will be able to perform well enough.

A life of eight-grader suddenly changes after he is officially declared genius in his school.

Former front-line intelligence officer, captain Nikolai Mityasov, after being wounded, returns to the destroyed city and learns the sad news: his wife Shura cheated on him. Bitterness and confusion gave way to hope. But peace has come, demobilization has begun, it is necessary to restore the homeland. Nikolai finds the strength to continue living, enters a construction institute, meets Valya and begins a new happy life without war...

A funny romantic comedy about a young actor Slava Belkin who works as Santa during New Year days.

Tolik didn't succeed in life, sports career did not work, his wife left him. Unsuccessful, unloved, hopeless, he has lost faith in himself. All changes when he encounters a strange stranger Anna Ilinichna, who invites him to take part in an unusual marathon in faraway America.

Made for Russian television version of the Invisible Man, based on the novel by H. G. Wells.

Yuri Stepanovich Ipatov, who once held a high-ranking position, is dismissed from his post due to financial misconduct. Coming to terms with his guilt and deeply remorseful, he decides to return to the factory where he began his working life — this time as an ordinary laborer. However, in making this choice, Ipatov did not expect that his beloved daughter Natasha would not only disapprove, but would see it as humiliating to be the daughter of a "small" man...

Klava and Seryozha (Sergey) have been together since preschool. He, one of the smartest kids in school, has always been in love with her but considered her more of just a pretty face rather than an intelligent person. He let her copy his homework and gave her his parents' things as gifts. When they are teens, Klava rejects his love because she knows that he doesn't value her for her, and instead is attracted to Lavrik, another intelligent boy from school. Klava likes him because for the first time she feels like someone is really interested in her as a person. Seryoszha, being very dramatic and wanting Klava's/everyone else's sympathy, writes a suicide note, "Please blame Klava K. for my death," but can he really commit suicide? Eventually he realizes that he is being too shallow and that while he makes such a drama out of such small problems, the people around him have real problems, but never said a thing.

In one famous shopping center an unusual person works as a security guard. He helps everyone: sellers of fashionable clothes, cleaners and barmen in cafeteria. He knows everybody and everything, and people around do love him. It is more than work, it is a real life, full-fledged life – he dresses free of charge, eats at restaurants, sleeps in a furniture store and participates in night races on floor polishers. Actually, he has a secret dream, that’ s why he saves all his money to carry out it some day.

Theft takes place in Washington, DC. Howard Knox is a well-intentioned Congressman crusading for reform. He is scheduled to make a speech in which he will expose the corrupt activities of an industrial magnate and his congressional stooges. The wealthy capitalist in question, Anthony Starkweather, along with his son-in-law and political puppet, Senator Thomas Chalmers, will do everything in their power to foil Knox's great speech and publicly disgrace him. To complicate matters, Margaret Chalmers, wife of Senator Chalmers and daughter of Starkweather, forms a friendship with Knox and begins to sympathize with his cause.

This time, in keeping with the best traditions of the first two parts, Mothers tells a beautiful, fascinating, lyrical and funny story of the three mothers that takes place in a small European town on New Year’s Eve. The three mothers are flying to Prague on New Year’s Eve.

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Six-grader Sasha is a very talented artist but he doesn't to show his paintings to anyone.

Manyunya, Narine and the Picture, accompanied by Ba, go on summer holidays to a real Russian village to grandma Nastya. At first, they are very passionate about the unusual atmosphere of a new place, but they quickly begin to get bored. Having decided to speed up the time before leaving home, the girls, on a tip from local boys, turn to the witch grandmother, who allegedly fulfills any desires. She agrees to help, but sets her own conditions. Fulfilling the orders of the witch, the girls get into amazing adventures, reminiscent of the plots of Russian folk tales.

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Old, rich Jew Mendel Krik falls in love with the beautiful Marusya. But their sons Levka and Bena don't share their dreams... Revolution has come.

Young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of the buried treasure of the buccaneer Captain Flint, in this adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.

A flutist in the forgotten past, at present the husband of a “big man’s” daughter and head of one of the Chief Directorate’s sections felt unwell one day: the forty-year-old man had a pain in his heart. This unpleasant incident provided an opportunity to meet a nurse named Lida. However, their stormy love affair ended, with Filimonov returning to normal life and an unloved wife.

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1918. Workers from Petrograd come to Altai region to establish the first agricultural commune. In spite of the hostility of the local White Army cossacks the workers build houses, cultivate land. The poor peasants are turning towards the commune. However, White Army cossacks take vengeance on the members of the commune.

Is so happened that Karik and Valya, the main characters, remarkably shrank in size, their whole habitual world acquiring unusual contours and unusual features.

It consists of three short stories united by the theme of war: "Where Are You, Lyubov Dunyashova?", "You Have Me", "Everyday Matters".

The film-play based on the play of the same name by V. Dykhochivny and M. Slobodsky ridicules formalism and bureaucracy.

Anton Skulov, a war invalid, shot a drunk young man with a hunting rifle who climbed into his garden and ruined rare flowers that his wife, a war veteran, had grown before her death. The investigation was short-lived, the accused immediately admitted his guilt and was ready to stand trial, having already convicted himself of the murder.

A young girl's godmother uses magic to find her a husband, but the girl is dismayed at his suspiciously catlike features. Based on Antony Pogorelsky's 1825 short story "The Lafertovo Poppycake Seller".

One day in the life of a modern young man - manager of a large advertising agency. For this day he smokes a pack of cigarettes, with every cigarette and scene of the film a whirlwind of events and conflicts swirls around him more and more densely ...

A music teacher is trying to organize a choir in the school he works in.

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The eldest son, who left for St. Petersburg, where he works as a detective, comes to the family of a crooked merchant and shopkeeper Grigory Tsybukin. Parents decide to marry him - his son is already 28 years old. They find a poor, but beautiful, clean and modest girl who meekly marries an already worn-out and balding man from the city, decently "laying by the collar". There is a merry wedding, and the husband leaves, leaving another worker in the family...

Homeless, all thrown Mephistopheles is suffering from idleness and boredom. In a market where you can buy everything - from gralic to books on Russian history, he manages to find the soul of a ballet dancer.

A middle-aged gentleman, yet utterly naive, sums up his life experience gained over years of traveling around good old England. The comical and absurd situations in which he and his friends constantly find themselves turn the play into a rare and truly timeless bestseller that entertains millions of viewers.

New Year's Eve. An actor was invited to one of the families to play the role of Santa Claus. But the actor got sick and asked his friend to replace him. The friend agreed with joy, because it was his ex-wife who invited the actor. She forbids him to meet the children. Also, the failed father meets the sweet Snow Maiden, who is going through her own personal drama.

In the same world two sisters live. One of which was largely unlucky at the very beginning of life: Ulyana is a "gable child" who, by the age of thirty, had preserved the outlook, behavior and reactions of a ten-year-old girl. The second - Lisa - was not even luckier. She is a healthy person whose life is completely dependent on a disabled sister who voluntarily or involuntarily destroys the plans of her ambitious sister actress.

A very sick girl asks her father to get her a live elephant. Based on the early stories by Alexander Kuprin.

Principal bachelor, master of plastic surgery under rather strange circumstances, meets with the long-nosed militiaman. Having made her an operation, he, like Pygmalion, who created Galatea, falls in love with the beautiful creation of his hands and declares: "I want to marry you!".

Moscow 1950s, June. City residents, having loaded all their scrub from mattresses to pots, into commuter trains, go to dachas and villages. Among them is the family of the boy Denis Korablev. Denis's parents don't really want to continue the tradition of renting a house for three summer months in the countryside, but Denis's grandmother is convinced that fresh country air is extremely useful for all of them. Life in the village is in full swing. Denis's dad rides a bike, Denis's mom walks around the village in a white sundress, Denis's grandmother makes strawberry jam, which is a lot this year. Denis has fun in the village - he joins a local gang of boys, makes friends with a girl Lena, goes to the boat station and plays a lot of mischief. One day, the worst thing for every boy happens to Denis - he falls in love.

Ten years ago, Andrey Mityaev, a talented law school graduate, decided to follow in his father’s footsteps and become a police officer. During his very first shift, the young officer attempts to arrest an armed criminal. A fight breaks out, and a shot is fired... Shaken by the man’s death, Andrey leaves the police force, becomes a lawyer, and takes responsibility for the murdered man’s daughter, Nadezhda. He places the girl in an elite boarding school and provides her with a good education. Ten years later, Andrey meets the grown-up Nadya and falls in love with her. But the young woman considers the former police officer to be her father’s killer and seeks revenge against him. Soon, however, she realizes that her hatred has gradually turned into love...

A 1993 Russian comedy film directed by Valeri Bychenkov, based on Vadim Shefner's poetry.

The hero of the film, afraid of losing both his wife and his mistress, is ultimately left alone.

How can change your life if someone tells you that your husband is cheating on you?

New Year's musical about the love of the Zaporozhian Cossack Yevhen and the daughter of the headman of the Cossack village, Polina, who, despite various obstacles, will anyway be together. In order to settle his personal life, Yevhen, together with his friends Ostap and Batia, go to Moscow to buy "vodka with bubbles", which they have to bring to the girl's father for the New Year. Adventures await them on the way.

By order of the ministry, an experiment was launched at one of the large factories, during which young specialists took leadership positions...

A story about two sisters, in which one was married to a commissar, the other to a White Guard.

August 1980. The Soviet authorities are preparing Moscow for the Olympic Games and expelling unreliable citizens from the city. One such citizen is the talented cellist Arseny Chaika, who ends up in the village of Protasovo with his rabbit. Meanwhile, in Moscow, foreign journalist William Smith is looking for him for an interview.

During field work, drivers find a treasure of gold coins. They want to hand over the treasure to the state, but all officials do not want to take responsibility for its safety...

Autumn, 1968. Nadia, a young woman with strict views on life, a methodologist at the regional House of Culture, goes to the cinema with her friend Sasha. The premiere of the film "Three Poplars on Ivy" took place in their city. Suddenly it turns out that there are no tickets, and you can only buy one with your hands.

A young girl wants to rob her mother's bank in order to have her to leave work and come home for a New Year Eve.

A Georgian truck driver falls in love with Olga. The film follows their adventures and misadventures as they try to overcome the obstacles of distance, culture, and bureaucracy to be together.

Retirees Rud and Sem come into possession of a suitcase full of mob money... a comic adventure ensues.

Igor is an evening school student who is in love with his teacher Inna Vitalievna. She has a family that is on the verge of collapse. Igor, who has just returned from the army, forces Inna to take a fresh look at life...

Lyudmila Gurchenko's brilliant performance in a musical drama about a life of the struggling singer.

Three murders are committed in a sanatorium under the poetic name "Cherry Orchard". But the police inspector does not have to break his head for a long time in search of killers - he knows almost everything: who, when and how were killed, the killers - the only thing left to figure out are the reasons...

About how faith in a person makes them more courageous, determined, and talented.

Based on the famous novel by Ilya Il'f and Yevgeniy Petrov this two-part-TV-movie tells the story of the of Ostap Bender and Kisa Vorobyaninov who are searching for hidden jewelry, hidden in one of twelve chairs by Vorobyaninov's aristocratic mother-in-law, to hide it during the revolution. But their priest, Father Fyodor found out about it and starts searching for the same chairs. During the movie the story is commented by the authors themselves who are writing it during the process.

An animator named Luka lives with his grandmother in the center of St. Petersburg. He huddles in a tiny but cozy attic and tries not to lose heart, making ends meet with earnings from roles in crowd scenes and performances at children's parties. Luka dreams of acting in TV series or big movies, so he periodically goes to auditions, which are rarely successful. Alexey Molchanov is a rich entrepreneur who lives at a crazy pace. He finds no time for himself or his loved ones, moving from one business meeting to another. However, time stops when, on the eve of his birthday, Alexey learns of his fatal diagnosis. The lives of both men take a different turn after their meeting.

As Soviet Russia enters the era of the New Economic Policy, Semyon Podsekalnikov decides to stop looking for a job. However, the prospect of living at the expense of his wife and mother-in-law seems unbearable. Having reached the end of his tether, Semyon is resolved to take his own life. Based on Nikolai Erdman's controversial play.

After being demobilized from the army, journalist Pavel Tyurin returned to his hometown, where his beloved girlfriend was no longer waiting for him. In addition, his room was given to another tenant. Pasha joined the newspaper's editorial office, where he worked before the army, and began to actively fight for social justice...

The young and talented graduate of the Theatre Academy, Sergei Malanko, to the surprise of all his acquaintances and friends, signs a contract with the Youth Theatre in the small town of Tarukansk. The reason for such a sudden departure from St. Petersburg is a sharp conflict with the course master. Soon, Sergei realizes his mistake, but the theatre’s chief director, Krotov, does not let him go. Then he starts a romance with the theatre’s leading lady, actress Irina Barysheva, on whom the entire repertoire depends. Now the director himself is ready to get rid of the actor, but he is afraid of Irina’s move. But unexpectedly, to everyone, including Melanko himself, his relationship with Irina develops into a deep, strong feeling...

A man, a local hooligan and alcoholic, is killed in a gloomy St. Petersburg communal apartment. Each of the residents hated him in their own way, and each had their own motive for the crime. But everyone has an ironclad alibi. A local disabled person undertakes to help the investigator...

A woman living a difficult life suddenly finds love.

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In the new Russia, former middle class citizens find themselves out in the dumps. Literally. They build homes, elect their own government, work, beg, scavenge, date and fight all while living in a huge city dump. Some try to beat the odds and return to society, but it seems that there is only one place left for them to go...

Nicolas Bersen is a Frenchman with Russian roots. He lives in Paris and works as a toy seller. Neither the mother nor the French bride - the daughter of the Parisian confectionery "king" - disapprove of Nicolas's extravagance, because the Sorbonne education allows him to make an excellent career in business. Before Christmas, Nicolas travels to Russia to learn more about her background. Who could have imagined that this trip would change his life? In Russia, he is going to get the adventure, family treasures, and ... true love.

The Imp will tell two stories about the evil witch Grimella. The first one is about the cursed Princess Irene. And the second one is about her daughter, Catherine, 18 years after the events of the first part.

The story begins with an ordinary family celebrating New Year at their house. Having seen an announcement on TV about the intergalactic song contest "Cosmovision", Masha immediately decides to take part in it. Her family supports her and goes with her and the aliens to the contest. There, the earthlings meet the stars of intergalactic show business: the legendary singer Diva, the hero Zed, the talented artist Fortiano and the cunning pop singer Baron-Star, who is planning something terrible against the "Cosmovision" participant Masha.

The wounded officer Alexei Ageev was picked up in the forest by partisans and hidden in the priest’s house. The young townswoman Maria was also hiding there. A policeman who knew everyone who lived in the village, having met Ageev, did not hand him over to the Gestapo, but invited him to become an informant...

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