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- BBC production of 'Sergei Prokofiev (I)''s opera "War and Peace" performed by the Kirov Opera under the baton of Valery Gergiev in St. Petersburg, Russia. The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov, is intertwined with the "Great Patriotic War" of 1812 against the invading Napoleon's Armies. People of Russia from all classes of society stand up united against the enemy. Both sides suffer tremendous losses during the war, and Russian society is left irrevocably changed.
- TV adaptation based on the eponymous book by Boris Vasilyev. Set in the Soviet Union in 1941, during the Second World War, Sergeant Vaskov of the Red Army is stationed at a remote artillery post. Vaskov is in charge of five young women recruited for military training. One day they are surrounded by a group of German paratroopers who were dropped into Soviet territory behind the front lines. Now Vaskov and his trainees must stop the enemy in an unequal fight.
- In Leningrad, on the white nights, a young and childishly naive Nina meets a young journalist Valery. A girl falls in love with her new friend with that sincere first love that happens only at the age of 19, not even suspecting that for such an ambitious aesthete as Valery, this is just another episode in an endless celebration of life. The leitmotif of the film, which became a cult for several generations of Leningraders, was the natural scenery of the beautiful city on the Neva River in the late 1960s.
- V pote litsa (1982) (TV) (aka...By the sweat of brow) is about hard working people who were doing the best job possible under the rough conditions of the soviet system.
- Librarian Yolochkina has nothing unusual in her. Not really tall, slender ordinary woman in her fourties. She had a lot in her life: hard labor, thousands of chores, failed love. Her face looks tired and washed out. Brittle, slightly cracked voice adds up to this impression. There is something childishly naive and open-hearted to the point of defenselessness in her. Yet, deeply within, she keeps invisible source of energy, that tough spirit which help staying true to herself. Not even once went Yolochkina against her conscience. She often felt devastated because of that stubbornness and scolded herself mercilessly, but next day continued behaving the same way.
- In Paris, in a back alley near Boulevard Saint-Martin, a dead man was found - Louis Tours. Inspector Maigret undertakes the investigation. Immediately it turns out strange circumstances - the killed red tie and yellow shoes, which, according to his wife, he never wore. In the wallet - no one knows where a decent amount of money came from and a very old photograph of a little girl. Obviously, the deceased led a second life, which was hidden from the eyes of his family.
- As befits any detective story, its beginning is very intriguing. The host introduces the audience to the course: Parisians, of course, remember the killer whom the newspapers called "Monsieur Sunday" - eight murders and all on Sundays and holidays. We will try step by step to restore the events of that Christmas night when his last crime was committed.
- Drama of Mr. Ordyntsev is caused by his sinful past. He is formally not guilty. But his past betrayals are coming to the light and causing problems with his family.
- Based on biography of the Russian surgeon Nikolai Ivanovich Pirogov (1810 - 1881). Pirogov lost his father at age 14. He vigorously studied medicine and was qualified as physician in 1828, still only 17 years old. Pirogov continued his studies in Europe and received a chair of surgery at the German University of Dorpat. From 1840 he practiced general surgery in St. Petersburg, Russia. In 1851 he invented the full-plaster cast after seeing a working sculptor. During the Crimean War (1854 - 1856) doctor Pirogov was a surgeon in Sevastopol. There he introduced the mass use of anesthetic. His innovative surgical techniques saved many lives. Pirogov promoted equal rights and access to education for women.
- TV adaptation of Arkadiy Strugatskiy's and Boris Strugatskiy's novel "Monday Begins on Saturday".
- Features clips of concert tours by Alla Pugacheva.