Gennady Sayfulin

The basis of the picture is not only the storylines of the heroes, but also the principle of continuous action of actors with the audience. Each of the five different short stories leads to the fact that for the decision: to maintain relationships or destroy them? This choice has to be made by the viewer himself.

Alexander Dunaev was the chief director of the Malaya Bronnaya Theater from 1967 to 1984.

The film depicts the events of 1964 when Nikita Khrushchyov was forcibly replaced by Leonid Brezhnev as a head of USSR.

Шестнадцатилетняя Люська сбегает из дома, где отчим не дает ей прохода, и знакомится с карточным шулером по фамилии Бристоль. Друзья ласково называют, уже далеко немолодого Константина, Котей. И вот старик и почти еще ребенок сдружились и вместе начинают опасную авантюру.

The tragic story of the life of revolutionary and romantic Nikolai Bukharin and his failed attempt to refute the charges against him. In parallel with the trial of Nikolai Bukharin, the whole life of this amazing man, who was ready to die for his ideals, flies before us.

Sailor Andrew, going on vacation, witnesses the fraud of young people extorting money at train stations. He is attracted by the heroine of the "scam" - Svetlana. Andrew sympathizes with the girl, trying to help her break out of the vicious circle ... But it turns out that this is just a specially directed action, invented by an avant-garde director to revive "dying" theatrical forms. However, life turned out to be more inventive than any theater. No one could even guess how this "performance" would end...

A delinquent boy of about fifteen years is sent to a reformatory and there finds himself in more trouble than he was in the outside world. Can he endure the frequent bullying that occurs at his new home?

A former army officer is trying to find crime in his home town.

Three heavily drunk friends break into the Zoo and kill a few deer...

At the heart of the story is a rural schoolteacher who, in 1944, leaves his native Bessarabia as the Red Army advances with heavy fighting. The gentle, cultured Sebastian Radu has every reason to avoid meeting the so-called liberators. And not just because one of the new regime’s first measures will be a background check, and Radu will have to write “noble” in the “social origin” field. The point is, our protagonist already has some experience dealing with representatives of the “new world.”