The film is a tribute to the most prominent figures in the world of documentary. For a long time, the famous documentary filmmaker Marina Goldovskaya has been interviewing her fellow filmmakers, the pioneers of American documentary filmmaking. Her interlocutors were Richard Leacock, Albert Meisles, Robert and Ann Drew, Chris Hegedus, Jonas Mekas, Allan King, D.A. Pennbaker, Michael Rubbo and others. All of them tell about the making of films that today are considered classics in documentary film history. We also have the opportunity to attend workshops by people whose experience is a source of inspiration for many.

Anna Politkovskaya was killed for doing her job. Her job was to say what she thought. Marina Goldovskaya filmed dialogues with Anna for twenty years. This is not a film about politics. This is a film about a brave, honest and beautiful woman whose voice was too loud for a country that did not want to hear the truth.

A descendant of the princes Meshchersky, publisher Evgeny Meshchersky returns with his family to a family nest in the Moscow region, hoping to at least partially restore the once magnificent, but now completely collapsed, dilapidated estate and create a museum exposition there.

Ivan Kuzmich Novikov is the director of the school where Maya Turovskaya studied in the 1930s. The parents of many students were declared enemies of the people, but Novikov, contrary to common practice, did not answer "son for his father", and the children were not humiliated.

The film is a personal journey that began in the shaking world of Moscow during the uprising against Yeltsin and continued in Los Angeles during and after the devastating earthquake of 1994. It takes us deep into the lives of citizens who represent a cross section of Southern California's melting pot.

House in the center of Moscow, on the Arbat. Luxury on the outside, pain on the inside. Its walls hide personal and state secrets. Memoirs of former neighbors in compacted Soviet living space.

Please note that in this copy of the film there are fragments of voice-over text in English without translation into Russian. "

Video diaries about the confusion and hopes of the early nineties. People were left without a livelihood in large numbers. In the center of Moscow, giant flea markets were officially allowed, where sellers stood and sold whatever they had. Goldovskaya met with many of her friends and acquaintances and asked them how they live, what they feel. Since Marina's interlocutors are her good friends, the stories turned out to be trusting and sincere.

Film-monologue of writer Anastasia Ivanovna Tsvetaeva, sister of Marina Tsvetaeva. Anastasia Ivanovna recalls her childhood: “we knew three languages, Russian, French, German”, about the Christmas tree, about an amazing mother, about her father, the famous professor Ivan Vladimirovich Tsvetaev, about the opening of a museum of fine arts in Moscow, about her sister, Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva, about the house in which they lived before the revolution and which has survived to this day, and she lives in a nursing home; about the terrible hungry year of 1921; about the death of his sister and the search for her grave; about the years spent in the camps. Her friends Tatyana Ivanovna Leshchenko-Sukhomlina and Evgenia Filippovna Kunina take part in the film.

This film is about the Solovetsky Special Purpose Camp (SLON), one of the many Gulag zones scattered around the country. Used documents and film materials of the 1920-30s. The film features former prisoners of Soviet camps: Dmitry Likhachev, Efim Lagutin, Oleg Volkov, Zoya Marchenko, Olga Adamova-Sliozberg, Anatoly Gorelov and others.

By the sixtieth birthday of Oleg Efremov, it was planned to make a documentary film about the work of the actor and director. But as a result, Goldovskaya and her colleagues witnessed the split of the Moscow Art Theater. The film crew in February 1987 worked at the Moscow Art Theater. Famous actors Oleg Borisov, Alexander Kalyagin, Igor Kvasha express their point of view on the events in the theater. In April 1987 there were two Moscow Art Theater.