His name was Lieutenant Alyosha, or Major Whirlwind, or Leo Dvorjak. All these are different images of one person, the legendary intelligence officer Alexei Botyan. Most of his operations are still kept secret. In an exclusive interview, Alexei Nikolaevich lifted the veil of secrecy over some of them.

In the USSR of the seventies, the glory of the ensemble and its leader Vladimir Mulyavin was simply phenomenal. Their songs were sung by the whole country. Working in Belarus, "Pesnyary" avoided the undue attention of the censors and did not participate in the clan struggle. All this helped Mulyavin to create a unique ensemble, where each performer was not only a professional, but also a bright personality.

A legendary director and an extraordinary person who equally easily made "festival" and "mass" films. He was a great father and a difficult husband, a true friend and an honest guy. Balabanov with his life, passions, losses, burning pain on the way to God in the memories of those closest to him, his mother, sons, wife and friends.

The film (2 episodes) was created jointly with the Press Bureau of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation and tells the story of one of the most successful Soviet intelligence officers, Kim Philby. The widow, Rufina Pukhova-Philby, who was inseparable from him for almost 20 years, tells about his fate.

The film is based on a unique, fundamentally new source of information about the Great Patriotic War. This is an interview with 17 thousand fighters, recorded right during the fighting. These sometimes incredible stories allow you to reveal the course of the entire war in a new way: to tell about the feelings and experiences of the fighters; about facts that contradict official history; about how war has suddenly become part of the daily lives of millions of people. The most unexpected, vivid and revealing stories from this unique archive will be voiced by popular artists. Also, the few veterans who have survived to this day will take part in the film, the protocols of conversations with which have been preserved in the archive.