The main character of the film is Alexander Isaevich Solzhenitsyn. The film uses materials both previously known and unpublished so far, as well as interviews with Alexander Isaevich, in which he talks about the future of Russia and the world in the 21st century, about modern literature and his difficult life. In addition to him, people who knew him closely, Evgeny Mironov, Alexander Sokurov, Georges Niva, Boris Morozov and his most important close friend and wife Natalia Dmitrievna Solzhenitsyna, participate in the film.

A multi-part investigative film dedicated to the events that took place from February to October 1917, tries to answer questions about how the outstanding minds of Russia came up with the idea of destroying the Monarchy and removing the legitimate ruler Nicholas II from the throne, under which the development of democratic freedoms began and rapid growth took place. economy. How the military elite, against the backdrop of hostilities, decided to change their leader. How the church and the people so quickly abandoned the Anointed of God. How all oaths were forgotten, and how the gene of betrayal entered the blood of the people.

Euphoria and pain, fear and inspiration, the goal and temptations on the way to it, victory in the arena and in the fight with yourself. A large-scale and stunning film-event about the true possibilities and barriers of a person, about the elements that we challenge.

This film is the fourth part of a large-scale film observation of the fate of people whom the authors filmed at the age of seven, fourteen, twenty-one and now, when they are 28. They live in different countries and even on different continents. They have different upbringing, education, eye shape, different religious views. Or they don't exist at all. Who are the heroes of this documentary saga? Who became those people who have the stamp of the now non-existent empire of the USSR in their birth certificate?

Farewell movie. Farewell to the native land, the original banks of the river and the people who lived on the Angara for centuries. History repeats itself. And again, as it was 40 years ago at the Bratsk hydroelectric power station, the life and fate of entire generations will be under the water of yet another man-made sea. We see all this through the eyes of three protagonists, the writer Valentin Rasputin, the publisher Gennady Sapronov and the critic Valentin Kurbatov.

Alexander Isaevich Solzhenitsyn. Actor Yevgeny Mironov shares his memories of meetings with him. Solzhenitsyn's friend Nikita Struve tells how he published The Gulag Archipelago abroad. The widow, Natalya Dmitrievna Solzhenitsyna, tells about the last days of his life, thoughts, goals and plans of Alexander Isaevich. The authors of the film offer rare shots of foreign chronicles and exclusive interviews of Alexander Isaevich, which have not been published so far.

This film is a link in the chain of long-term film observations of children born in different republics of the Soviet Union. They were filmed at the age of 7 and 14, now they are 21 and they live in different countries: in Russia, the USA, Georgia, Israel, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, France. 20 children of different nationalities, different social and cultural levels were united by this project.

Zhzhenov's activities in the cinema began before the age of 22. Then there was an arrest with interrogations and prisons, then camps. The artist talks about his life in Russian prisons and those places where he was imprisoned, in Crosses, in Vladivostok, in Magadan. Excerpts from the films in which Georgy Zhzhenov starred surprisingly reveal his own life.

The film tells about the outstanding actor Georgy Zhzhenov, his life in Leningrad, the beginning of his film career, arrest, investigation, detention in Shpalerki and Kresty prisons. The protagonist, as it were, leads a tour of the historical places of his biography. The audience together with him visit the very cell where Zhzhenov spent two and a half years, his communal apartment. Georgy Stepanovich meets people with whom he once knew, long-forgotten names, surnames, lines of poetry come to mind.

The history of the complex relationship between mother and son, belonging to the highest circles of the Moscow elite.

20 years. More precisely, already teenagers. They were born in 1983, in the USSR, a now defunct country. In different families, different republics. In 1990, when they were 7 years old, they became the heroes of the first film from the "Born in the USSR" series. Now they are 14. What has changed in the lives of these guys and how do they see and perceive this life?