Stas is a miner, not the most hardworking, but very charming. By chance, he ends up buried in a mine along with eco-activist Lena. Then he begins to hear a voice. Voice of the Earth. In her speeches, she speaks for the environment, and threatens that she will drown everyone if they don't listen to her. The problem is that only Stas hears her. And now he will have to very quickly convince the whole world that a) he is not a schizophrenic and b) he urgently needs to stop polluting the Earth, otherwise it will wash everyone away from its face.
Preserving the text of the play, the amazing dialogues, the brilliant characters, we have transposed the action into today’s Russian provinces and changed only one thing: the age of the heroes. In Anton Chekhov’s play the heroines are aged around 25; now they are 55. What does that do? The heroes’ retorts, stylistically inappropriate from today’s twenty-year-olds, are absolutely organic for the older generation, the ‘Soviet’ intelligentsia. The problems of Chekhov’s classical work concerning the search for a meaning in life, the loss of ideals, the fear before death without having achieved anything in the world, the desire to be useful to others – all these things are also a typical attribute of the Soviet intelligentsia.
The trouble with businesswomen is that they have “business” in the first place and only “wumen” in the second. The heroine of this story in business concerns does not notice how she loses the closest person - her beloved husband. But fortunately, there is New Year's Eve with its miracles and the ability to correct any mistakes, even mistakes of love ...
Sadyk’s grandson has disappeared in Russia as one of thousands of Uzbeks who travel there for work. The old man sets out for Moscow unaware of the contents of the package he is carrying for his benefactor.
This film tells the story of the early years of the famous Soviet commander, Grigoriy Kotovskiy, during the decline of tsarism in Russia. As a student at agricultural college in 1900, Kotovskiy meets a group of graduates who pledge eternal friendship and loyalty to one another even though their lives quickly take very different paths. While Oles becomes a politician, and Aleksey rises to the rank of Police Commander, Viktor turns to a life of crime together with his friend, Grigoriy Kotovskiy, who becomes leader of a gang of robbers. As a youth Kotovskiy is headstrong, romantic and impetuous. Robbing the rich to give to the poor, he becomes known as the Robin Hood of Bessarabia, held in awe by everyone throughout Southern Russia. With a price on his head, it is only a matter of time before he is captured and sent to prison. But he manages to escape and soon returns to his already legendary life of crime.
Aleksandr Pashutin (Александр Пашутин) is a Russian actor born in 1943 in Moscow.
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