Anna Nikolayeva

Russian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin's Great Purge. Ivan Lapshin, the head of the local police, does what he has to do. And he does it well.

The former policeman dismissed from the criminal investigation Department for abuse of authority, entrusted to engage in the search for gunner burglary and for conspiracy, in the interests of the investigation, it is prescribed by the district. So again, in fact, from scratch, Stas begins his career…

Genka Sakhnenko, a seventeen-year-old boy, has been passionate about pigeon breeding since childhood. But he begins to make a living, falls in love with the girl Tanya and realizes that it is time to leave his childhood hobbies.

Zoya dreams of a wealthy life, but a trip to Siberia changes her plans.

One day in the lives of tenth-grade students unfolds in different ways: some quarrel for the first time, some try to donate skin to people who have been burned, and some rethink their attitude toward an annoying neighbor who plays the piano when they discover that she is blind.

A story about a few days during the defense of Kiev at the beginning of WWII.

Conscript Andrey Vorobey dreams of serving in the army. However, to his disappointment, the medical commission declares Andrey unfit for military service. Nevertheless, he is determined to test himself in challenging conditions and goes to a southern state farm, where he volunteers for the hardest jobs...

A young archaeologist arrives in a seaside town in order to find the famous statue of Aphrodite with an apple. Failure follows one another, and Levashov is ready to admit defeat. But suddenly love and new hope come.

The plant director gathers all the young people in one shop, entrusting them with both work and management. The experiment is unsuccessful, as the youth workshop did not become a collective. Young engineer Sergey, who heads the shop, realizes that only by uniting the youth, he will be able to work fruitfully and fight against marriage and indiscipline. Tsybulkin, who was chosen as a Komsorog, helps to realize the plan conceived by Sergey,. Two schools come to internship. One of them - Lisa Gromova, the daughter of the director of the plant. The shop staff and Sergei undertake to re-educate the maiden spoiled by her mother. Director Gromov himself helps them.

A detective investigating the robbery also tries to help young man to avoid criminal future.

The dramatic story of the merchant's daughter, who became a brave fighter of the cavalry squadron of the red Army, later could not find herself in a peaceful life

In the first days of the war, the mother lost her little daughter. Mikhailina found her and took her in, no doubt that she could become her real mother. All subsequent years she lived for the sake of the girl. But as time went on, the real mother continued to look for her child...

The love story of the beautiful Danko and the forester Anton, their struggle for their love and for the old grove – the beauty and pride of the Carpathian village, where the sound of axes is heard more and more often.

Deti solntsa is a version of Children of the Sun by Russian writer Maxim Gorky, written in early 1905 and premiered on October 25 of the same year at Petersburg's Kommissarshevskaya Theater.