Movies: Vladimir Mishanin

War correspondent Lopatin takes a 20-day-leave from his hard work at the front in 1942. He travels to faraway Tashkent to meet the family of the killed soldier and visit the film set of the screen adaptation of his war-time stories. Lopatin also mana...

Boxer Gennady Stakhov comes to his fiancée - a tenth-grader Maya - to meet her parents. But there he meets Lida, Maya's older sister, with whom he once had an affair. And now the boxer's successes and failures are at the mercy of old love....

The main character is a talented, but timid writer of the Filippok experiencing with his country the difficult years of revolution, devastation and war. Adversity helps him overcome the unrequited and faithful love for the widow of Commissioner Zinoc...