Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov lived under six rulers of the Soviet state. With five of them, Beria (read Stalin), Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Andropov and Gorbachev, he met personally and hoped that in one way or another he would be able to influence their decisions. But he had a real impact on the society of his country. He was born under Lenin and died under Gorbachev, a year and a half before the day when the state collapsed, the strengthening of which he contributed to in the first half of his life and which he fought in the second. This "turn", as he himself called it, is the most interesting thing in Sakharov's history.

This is a film about a true ascetic, Moses Beregovsky, a man who collected Jewish folklore in Ukraine all his life, and the fate of his unique archive, which was considered lost. Moses Beregovsky began to collect the archive in the twenties of the twentieth century, continued to work in the liberated territories in the difficult post-war period. Almost all the people whose voices and works he recorded in the pre-war years on the wax cylinders of the phonograph perished in the flames of the Holocaust. The film will also feature songs by former prisoners of concentration camps and ghettos, which Beregovsky managed to record in 1944-1945. The film was created with the support of Roman Abramovich.

Dmitri Shostakovich called her the "Queen of Russian Poetry". She remained a queen in the memory of those who knew her, a queen who survived great glory and the bitterness of humiliation, trampled down by the authorities and retaining her dignity. She lived a long life. The star of the Silver Age, she died on March 5, 1966 by a whim of fate on the day of Stalin's death.

The film is dedicated to the centenary of Alexander Galich. One of the great trinity of bards Galich - Okudzhava - Vysotsky, who for decades determined the social and intellectual climate of the country. The authors of the film tried to understand how it happened that he, a recognized playwright and screenwriter, challenged the authorities and chose the fate of a disgraced bard, an idol of informal culture, went his way from well-being to rejection, to unofficial glory? He was forced to leave the USSR, three years later he died tragically in Paris, and his songs keep coming back and coming back to us.

This film is about the life and fate of one of the most significant writers of the twentieth century. Grossman's novel "Life and Fate" was arrested on February 14, 1961, three years after the massacre of Pasternak's "Doctor Zhivago" and a year and a half before the publication of "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" by Solzhenitsyn in Novy Mir. Grossman died shortly after Roman's arrest. His fate was taken from him, but "the manuscript did not burn." Although it could. The film shows for the first time documents from the "Special Folder" by Vasily Grossman, kept all these years under the heading "Top Secret".

The series is dedicated to the Spanish Civil War, its very special role in the intellectual and cultural history of the 20th century.