Ljudmila Potapova

Succumbing to the persuasion of a friend, Natalia takes a private agent with the goal of obtaining compromising material at all costs, exposing the love affairs of her faithful husband Alexander, who is going on vacation to warm countries. But embarrassment happens: the client’s photo is lost, and the real Casanova appears in the agent’s field of vision.

В день Святого Валентина — праздник всех влюбленных, `примерный` муж, проводив жену в командировку, решает отдохнуть от семейной жизни в обществе длинноногой красавицы и приглашает ее к себе домой. Но в самый разгар любовной идиллии неожиданно возвращается жена…

The naive hero, having read clever books, marries a prostitute with the aim of re-educating her and collides with the famous Sergei Eisenstein, ending in the most unexpected and fatal way...

Follows the deportation of Karachays, which took place at the end of World War II. The film's director, himself a Karachay, tried to convey the experiences of people, life and culture, considering it important to make people realize what that did to him and his people.

"Let us part - while we‘re good," Bagrat says to the peasants who have sheltered him, bleeding, from his pursuers. Let's part before any of you betray me... Love and hatred, meanness and courage, betrayal and self-sacrifice - everything that a romantic, adventurous plot requires (and that is also found in everyday life!).