Boris Kamorzin

Poignant stories about men and women who have linked their lives — some for years, some for an hour, some for five minutes. Life stories that sound at home in the kitchen, in a compartment with strangers, in a taxi, or left in a notebook as a memory, because if the feelings are real, sincere, then it's forever. Moments of strange encounters and bitter breakups, in which you can see something familiar.

Moscow, 1980s. The film studio is filming the feature film "Nora" based on Henrik Ibsen's play "A Doll's House". An actress from Leningrad is invited to play the main role.

During an excursion to a research center, 17-year-old first-year student Zhenya accidentally gets into a test sample of a new model of the robot "Apostle" (A.P.O100L), which has its own will and mind. Having received a random pilot, the machine takes control and decides to escape from the laboratory. Now, in order to return home, Zhenya will have to find a common language with artificial intelligence.

A boy from a remote Ural village, who grew up without a father in a large family, managed not only to survive the hardships of a wartime childhood and post-war devastation, but also to become at the origins of the creation of the Group A anti-terrorist unit, which would later become known as the Alpha Group.

Government official Victor Letayev oversees road construction in the Perm region. He is a cynical kind, accustomed to always getting things done, and getting them done his way. He loves his job, he is good at it, and he has zero interest in anything else. His motto is, “I used to chop firewood for a living. Everyone needs firewood; you can’t heat a home with art or culture.” Victor’s attitude changes when art and culture become areas of priority for his region’s development. Now, in order to keep his job, Victor has to study Perm region’s cultural heritage. Hoping to make things easier for himself, he takes lessons from art historian Marina. Will she succeed in imposing cultural awareness on a pragmatic government functionary?

Dimonstr saves Sasha Chyornyy and four runaway orphanage children from the police and bandits. Dimonstr is now just Dmitriy, the manager of a car dealership, his son Dima has grown up. Family life is not conducive to pranks, the Dimonstr remained in the fairy tales that the father tells his son at night. But the monastery is again restless. Four children from the orphanage end up there - two sisters and two brothers. Dasha, the eldest, is not the first time organizing a family's escape from an orphanage. And once again they are caught. But this time they went for robbery, and the police cannot leave this without punishment. Realizing that this will break the boys, the investigator, on his own responsibility, decides to send them to the monastery to Father Anatoliy for re-education. But the small, daring group will prove to be a much tougher nut to crack than Dimonstr and Sasha Chyornyy once were.

The people's favorite, the country's best football player Fyodor Cherenkov, is not going through the best period in his life. The only thing that keeps him from despair is his dream of playing at the World Cup. But the head coach of the national team removes him from the team at the last moment. Fyodor is seriously thinking about retiring, but for the sake of his family and fans, he returns to lead his club to the championship and become the best again.

Yurka is a self—contained twelve-year-old schoolboy who is grieving the loss of his father. The ordinary course of his life changes when new students appear in the classroom — a brother and a sister. Together they will have to grow up and find out what true friendship is worth.

Eight-year-old Nikolai suffers from a congenital illness that leaves him unable to walk or speak. His doctors and even his own mother, Tatyana, have given up hope of treating his ailment. When Tatyana’s new friend Yuri tries using his own physiotherapy techniques to treat Nikolai, he discovers that Nikolai has a gift for music and teaches him to play the piano. With every note he learns and every melody he masters, Nikolai’s condition improves. He not only gains mobility, he also becomes an outstanding musician. Nikolai and Yuri travel to China together to take part in a piano competition, with a view to taking the grand prize. This is a humor-packed story about the healing power of music and fatherly love.

Grisha, an official from the committee for the protection of cultural heritage sites, has an ideal plan — to carefully kidnap the boss on New Year's Eve in order to make a deal with another shopping center in the city center himself. Grisha has provided for everything, and it's hard to imagine what could go wrong.