Pyotr Kadochnikov

Silva Varescu, a self-sufficient and professionally successful cabaret performer from Budapest, is about to embark on a tour of America. Three of her aristocratic admirers, named Edwin, Feri and Boni, prefer her to stay. Edwin, unaware that his parents have already arranged a marriage for him back home in Vienna, orders a notary to prepare a promissory note of his expected marriage to Silva within ten weeks.

A train with a nuclear reactor should arrive at the junction railway station outside the schedule. To miss it means to disrupt the movement of other trains. The attendant assumes responsibility and decides to detain the unscheduled train. And now-during this night-he will defend his decision...

Siberia, 1930s. Ten-year-old Ilka runs away from home to escape his stepmother and joins a team of loggers rafting wood along the Mana River. Here, the young hero learns the dangerous trade and finds friends.

Two poor Spanish students set off in search of happiness in Madrid. Here they decide to make their fortune by marrying girls from noble families. But one of them, Marta, is promised by her father to a rich elderly nobleman.

People of different destinies were brought together by "Santa Esperanza" (Holy Hope), the name of an abandoned mining village turned into a concentration camp. They behaved differently and chose different methods of struggle. The film centers on the confrontation between a group of political prisoners and the management of one of the camps in Chile when the junta was in power.