The year is 1930. In a small Tartar village, a woman named Zuleikha watches as her husband is murdered by communists. Zuleikha herself is sent into exile, enduring a horrendous train journey to a remote spot on the Angara River in Siberia. Conditions in the camp are tough, and many of her group do not survive the first difficult winter. As she gradually settles into a routine, Zuleikha starts to get to know her companions. The eclectic group includes a rather dotty doctor, an artist who paints on the sly, and Ignatov, Zuleikha's husband's killer. A screen version of the best-selling novel by Guzel Yakhina.
The beauty of a simple country girl Katerina Panova conquered the world. She became the face of Soviet fashion of the 60s and the first fashion model recognized in the West. Paris and Prague applauded the Russian beauty, the press called it "the national treasure of the USSR", and at home Soviet reality, envy, intrigue, jealousy and tragic love awaited her.
Vasilisa Kremneva (Maria Kozhevnikova)-senior employee of the press center of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. She has just been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, but Vasilisa has long dreamed of doing real work. After all, instead of catching criminals, she is forced to work as a "talking head" - to tell the audience about the achievements of law enforcement agencies. However, despite all her requests, the authorities (Emmanuel Vitorgan) refuse to transfer the beauty, who has long become the" face " of the Committee, to operational work. Radically change the life of a girl helps the case.
The year is 1982. Katya Koroleva, an athlete and a beauty, flees from the investigation to her sister in Moscow. Her sister gets her a job as a saleswoman at the Porcelain House store. Here Katya meets a KGB general, not knowing that her sister is cooperating with him. On the eve of Brezhnev's death, a real confrontation begins between two structures - the Interior Ministry and the KGB. Katya finds herself drawn into both this confrontation and a love triangle. And she is also overtaken by a criminal history, from which she escaped from Belgorod at one time.
The parody series "Sancho from the Ranch" was part of the St. Petersburg television program "Chameleon", curated by the famous director Yuri Mamin. The idea of this parody was that the supposedly Mexican TV series "Sancho from the Ranch" was seen by viewers in two guises at once: on the screen and behind the screen. On the screen there are heartbreaking incidents in sunny Mexico, and off the screen an ordinary Russian family is watching them with excitement – grandmother and grandfather, father and mother, daughter and son. The trick is that they also appear in exotic Mexican roles, and seem to be watching themselves.
A young Cossack woman, Marina, works as a chief technologist at a local chocolate factory and is waiting for news from her husband, who left for work in Moscow after the wedding.
Dina's ordinary life comes crashing down around her after her fiance's betrayal and her father's death. In her despair, she agrees to give up her unborn baby but when she realizes her mistake, it is too late. Desperate, she escapes and accidentally shoots at a woman passing by, killing her instantly. On the run, hiding from the law and full of self loathing at the killer she has become, Dina cannot give herself up as she doesn't want her baby to be born in prison and to grow up in an orphanage Fate sends her on many adventures both good and bad until destiny intervenes, bringing some normality back into her life and with it, the man of her dreams.
The story is set in a relatively comfortable Stalin-era prison in the town of Marfino where a community of prisoners with highly technical skills do research for the state. Based on the novel by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
Marta, 30, works as a psychologist at a prestigious college. Marta's life is settled: a successful career, a good-looking boyfriend Timur, an aspiring writer, and dreams of a family. Suddenly, her student Yulia tells Marta about her pregnancy and a decision to have an abortion. Yulia is 17 years old, her mother died a couple of years ago. And Marta, having mistakes of her youth in mind, decides to tell everything to Ivan, Yulia’s father, a wealthy businessman.
Ivan turned out to be Marta's first and greatest love, Marta herself was pregnant by him 12 years ago, but terminated her pregnancy (and contacts with him) having found out that Ivan was married...
It seems that fate gives Marta and Ivan a second chance to gain love and trust, but can they forgive each other and forget the mistakes of the past? What will be the fate of the 17-year-old Yulia?