Most researchers consider Andrei Platonov's novel "Chevengur" a great dystopia, but there are people who are sure that there was a settlement with the same or a similar name, for example, Kuchugury, and with the same fate. And in general, there is a view of Platonov as a brilliant documentary filmmaker who did not compose anything, but only wrote down how it really was.

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.

Georgia, Kutaisi. The war had just ended, there were few joys. Everyone's nerves were on edge, the homeless went in flocks. I lived as a partisan in my hometown, and the only island where I felt good was Library No. 6, this is how the amazing childhood story of the artist, writer and director Rezo Gabriadze begins, in which real facts are mixed with the fantasies and dreams of a 10-year-old boy. In simple words of a little boy, Rezo Gabriadze talks about love, respect, repentance, forgiveness, growing up, interspersing funny and sad in equal proportions. He tells charming and touching stories about how to pass the test of humanity, comprehend compassion and find beauty in the little things in life. A feature-length animated film based on the stories and drawings of Rezo himself is a warm and touching declaration of love to the artist from the people closest to him.

What is real life? This is when even death you can turn a part of life. That is exactly what Igor Alekseev, a doctor and writer from Saratov, did. In the face of imminent death from cancer, he began to keep an online diary and share with readers the experience of struggling and dying.

Sasha Sokolov is a man of mystery. Even more is known about his father, a deeply classified GRU agent, than about his son, a famous Russian writer. Sasha Sokolov's main novel "School for Fools" was called the Russian "The Catcher in the Rye", and Sasha himself was exalted to the "Russian Joyce". In 1975, Sokolov disappeared from the Soviet Union, published three novels, and either disappeared or closed himself off from the world. Many of his fans are sure that he has long been dead. The authors of the film did not just find out that the great Russian writer is alive, they found out that he (like his father) has been leading an interesting double life all these years. They searched for it in different countries and found it. And the writer Sasha Sokolov agreed to speak for the first time. The conversation went on for ten days. The writer spoke about life, simultaneously revealing the secrets of his secret biography, his and his family.

The film, consisting of eight parts, is fragments of Andrei Bely's biography scattered over time.

TV presenter Fekla Tolstaya in the author's cycle talks about her famous ancestors, the Tolstoy family. The story of one of the representatives of a famous family, made up of simple "ingredients" of life, including love, separation, passion, jealousy, suffering, adventure, adventure, war, betrayal, betrayal and death.

Artistic reconstruction of the life of one person, the Poet. Although Marina Tsvetaeva is known not only for her work, but also for her difficult fate, the painting "Passion for Marina" deserves the interest of even those who believe that they will not tell him anything new about Tsvetaeva. The film uses memoir prose, letters and notebooks, diaries, memoirs and letters of contemporaries; fragments of films from the collection of the State Film Fund of Russia and the Russian State Archive of Film and Photo Documents.

A film about the satirical project of Andrei Vasiliev, Mikhail Efremov and Dmitry Bykov "Citizen Poet", which has become not only the most striking cultural initiative in our country in recent years, but a truly all-Russian cultural phenomenon.

About the tragic fate of the German teenager Hubert Loste, who, by the will of circumstances, ended up in the USSR in the era of "great construction projects" and "great terror".

The famous English science fiction writer Herbert Wells visited our country three times. The first time was 100 years ago, in 1914. Then in 1920 and 1934. And each time another Russia opened before him, completely different from the one he had seen during his previous trip.

The hero of the film, Vasily Sigarev, tells stories from his life, which, slightly transformed, become the stories of his plays. For the inhabitants of his native Upper Salda, this is everyday life. For metropolitan theaters, this is an unprecedented reality of provincial life. For the audience, this is both laughter and horror. For a playwright, these are numerous awards and endless pain.

A film about the life and work of the outstanding Russian literary critic, writer, screenwriter, leader of the Russian formal school Viktor Shklovsky. Tracing the brightest moments of this life, tightly intertwined with the life of the twentieth century, is the main task of the film. And, of course, the creators of the documentary could not ignore the writer's love interests, which he wrote about in the famous "letters not about love."

Engelina Borisovna Tareeva is one of the most famous Russian bloggers, the oldest “thousander” of LiveJournal. She is 84 years old. She was born in Kyiv, at the age of 16 she was a tractor driver in a Kazakh steppe village in evacuation, she studied at the philological faculty of Moscow State University, worked in the journal Voprosy Literatury, knew well-known sixties and even a sixties woman herself. Most of Tareeva's nearly five thousand readers are young people. Paradox?

Ion Degen. The legendary Soviet tanker, an outstanding doctor, the author of one of the most famous poems about the war, written by him at the age of 19 at the front. Yes, he had to destroy enemies, but he was a soldier. One of the best warriors in that terrible war who defended their homeland. Listening to this man, you begin to understand that our generation and his generation speak different languages.

Russian Poet Boris Ryzhy was handsome, talented and famous. So why did he end his own life at the age of 26? A quest to find the answer takes the filmmaker to the notorious neighbourhood in the cold industrial city of Yekaterinenburg where Boris grew up...

The second film about the life of Olga Bergholz begins on June 22, 1941 and ends with the days of the Great Victory. Suffering, struggle combined in the personal fate and work of the poet in the conditions of besieged Leningrad. The greatest tension of all forces and "brain muscles" became the main test in her life. The third part of the film tells about the post-war period of the life of the poetess. About new trials and about the country that has changed after the war. On documentary footage, Olga's diary entries and memoirs of contemporaries sound.

A portrait of the artist Oscar Rabin against the backdrop of three decades of Soviet history, a story about confronting an authoritarian regime with paint and a brush, about the limits of compromise, about freedom in an unfree country.

Gennady Shpalikov. He was 25 when he offered Georgy Danelia the script for the future film "I WALK IN MOSCOW." At this time, Shpalikov was already finishing the script for Ilyich's Outpost for Marlen Khutsiev! Both of these films will be called the manifesto of the generation of the sixties, symbols of the era called the "thaw".

A cycle of 10 films.