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".

On the night of August 13, 2012, the hotel Rus, which stands on the outskirts of Biysk, was especially noisy. The company of four guests, two guys and two girls, was very noisy, they constantly walked up and down the stairs, laughing loudly and talking loudly. The administrator made a remark to them, the guests calmed down and went to their rooms. Ten minutes passed. And then the door of one of the rooms opened with a bang, and from there, holding his stomach, a barefoot guy in shorts ran out and rushed down the stairs to the street. The hotel guard met the runner in the yard and saw that a deep wound was gaping on his stomach. “She cut me with a knife,” the wounded man said with difficulty. A day later, he died in the hospital. An investigation has begun. The victim's name was Sergei Cherkaikin. The girl who stabbed him is Tatyana Andreeva. The story soon became widely known. It included social networks, newspapers and magazines, all major TV channels and the most rated programs. The whole country seemed to want to know who is the villain in this case, and who is the victim? Everyone wanted to understand the Andreeva Case. And the filmmaker too.

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.

Alexander Sysoev was a successful businessman in the dashing 90s. In 1999, he decided to overthrow the current government, first in Vyshny Volochek, and then in the country. In order to take possession of the weapon, Alexander wanted to seize the local police department. On the night of April 9-10, 1999, the eve of the Orthodox Easter, Sysoev fired at the police department of the city of Vyshny Volochek. As a result of this attack, three police officers were killed. Sysoev was detained, and after an investigation in 2000, the court declared him insane and sent him to compulsory psychiatric treatment. 15 years later, in 2015, Sysoev was released. Sergei Erzhenkov found Alexander and went with him to Vyshny Volochek.

At the end of the 80s of the last century, Alexey Yuryevich German created a film school based on the studio of the First and Experimental Film. Sergey Karandashov, a graduate of the workshop, talks about the process of recruiting students, their training, interaction with the master and teachers, their first steps in the profession.

Author's version of the film.

Who is Sergey Muratov, many people know. One of the three legendary inventors of KVN, professor of Moscow State University, adored by students. Learned many stars of domestic television journalism. The largest theorist and authority, he wrote a mountain of books about television. But few people know that in fact Professor Muratov is an ordinary alien who visited Earth in transit.

“In order to be martyred and die for the faith, a person must feel the reality of the existence of God and the reality of the other world,” say the descendants of those who were martyred for the Orthodox faith in the middle of the 20th century. The Church has already canonized some of these murdered as New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia. Their children and grandchildren are trying to figure out how their holy relatives related to the main issues of life: the relationship between a man and a woman, the sacrament of marriage, the upbringing of children, death, suffering, sacrifice. And how much all this was passed on to them, the descendants of modern saints.

In the spring of 2017, the Investigative Committee conducted the first searches as part of the criminal case, which everyone now knows as the Serebrennikov case, the Seventh Studio case, or the Platform case. Six people, including a world-famous director, are accused of stealing from the state more than one hundred million rubles allocated for staging performances. And they can go to jail for 10 years for that. Journalists Katerina Gordeeva and Roman Super tried to figure out what the essence of this case is. We talked to people who know what theater is, including in terms of money. We studied financial documents. Communicated with those with whom no one had ever been able to before. They figured out why the applause of the audience and the compliments of the Ministry of Culture turned into arrests. And of course, they went to all the court sessions.