1940s Arctic, a new boss arrives to build a port. They are waiting for him impatiently, they greet him with joy, but the one who arrives is not the one they were expecting. He begins his acquaintance sternly: "Less chatter, we must get down to business!" - proclaims the new government.
Investigating the murder of a resident of the suburbs Louis Touré, Maigret faces the indifference and cruelty of the people surrounding Louis in recent years. The diagnosis and the verdict — all guilty.
About the tragic days of the Chilean revolution, its unconquered fighters and those who, believing in abstract good, unwittingly served the goals of fascism.
An employee leaves the company, lured away by a “competing company”, but his boss doesn't want to let him go at all, not handing over the documents, instead of saying goodbye through the secretary, that he doesn’t want him to leave, and gives three months to say goodbye to them or not. Nevertheless, he leaves, while grossly violating party discipline. A new venture awaits him, there he will be a big boss, an “outsider.” They have high hopes for it, but they are in no hurry to immediately reveal all the features and hidden production problems.
Two village boys - brothers Semyon and Pavel - serve a Moscow merchant-shopkeeper. They face harsh exploitation and hard forced labor. The brothers' life paths diverge. Unable to withstand the merchant's bullying, Pavel goes to the factory, becomes a worker, and later a professional revolutionary. Semyon remains in service. In the post-revolutionary period, Semyon, having been to the front and returning to the village, joined the kulaks, brutally dealt with representatives of the Soviet government, becoming the head of a gang of “badgers” hiding in the forests. A Red Army detachment led by Pavel is sent to fight the bandits...
The hero saw among his colleagues a man whom he had met during the war in the dungeons of the Gestapo. This man reported that a thief from the same cell was trying to escape. The “thief” was shot, and later it turned out that he was the leader of the underground...
Four one-act plays by Viktor Rozov in two parts.
Episodes from the life of Molière with scenes from his play, revealing the tragic picture of the confrontation between the great playwright and the authorities.
Two friends, Harry and William, meet the respectable Mr. Sartorius and his lovely daughter Blanche on the trip. Harry falls in love with Blanche and proposes to her. But it suddenly turns out that Sartorius made his entire fortune through fraud. What should an honest young man do?
Peace and prosperity reign in the family of engineer Sergei Shubin. But meeting with Marina changes everything. It seems to Sergei that true love has come to him, and he decides to start a new family. Time passes, but neither Sergei nor Marina feel happy...
TV version of a play based on Ernest Hemingway's posthumous novel.
Molly Egan, an almshouse resident, takes part in picketing a laboratory developing nuclear weapons. Judge Henry Pulaski finds her guilty of “trespassing.” Not heeding his warning, Molly again participates in the picket, for which she goes to prison.
With the help of observation, the ability to think logically, and intuition, the main characters reveal the most complicated cases ...
In May 1808, the fortress, renamed Sveaborg, surrendered to Russian troops and, together with the fleet and fortifications, went to the Russian Empire.
In Closterham, Edwin Drood and Rose Button confront his uncle John Jasper, the church choir regent, and Edwin fights Neville Landles, who is in love with Rose, leading to his disappearance.
A man tries to follow his interpretations and behave accordingly, sacrificing his entire private property and living for the poor.
A prominent scientist Andrei Loginov comes to the city of his youth, just for one day, while passing through. Here he meets the woman he once loved. Memories of days long past, of the people who remained there, turn out to be not such a simple matter.
The action takes place during the Great Patriotic War in one of the divisions that defended Odessa.
