Nikolai Konovalov

A drab woman scientist, working on machine to harness solar energy, and a pert concert singer look-alike being courted to play her in a movie swap identities and find personal growth, professional success, love, and happiness.

A story based on a classic play by Alexander Ostrovsky,

Tanya Morozova, an illiterate but industrious textile factory worker, finds happiness through her education and the Stakhanovite movement. She becomes a shock labourer and ascends through the Party ranks, ultimately being elected as a member of the Supreme Soviet.

Talented cabbie with aspirations as a singer spends afterhours practicing with an amateur opera company, ignoring his sweetheart, the femme cab dispatcher.

D'après le vaudeville éponyme de A.P. Tchekhov. Les petits bourgeois Zhigalov, dont la belle-fille Dasha est en cours d'extradition, découvrent avec horreur que le fonctionnaire Aplombov, qui s'est occupé de Dasha tout l'été, a dîné tous les jours avec eux et s'est révélé être son futur époux, ne va pas se marier du tout.

August 1941. Residents of the Ural town escorted to the front of men. Left alone, women take on the most difficult cases, showing outstanding organizational skills and will. Together with the evacuated plant, refugees arrive in the town. The heroine of the Film Anna takes to her house a woman with children — her example is followed by the rest…

Anton Ivanovich Voronov is a highly respected professor at the Moscow Conservatoire, who places the music of Bach above everything else and regards it as the ultimate yardstick by which other musical accomplishments must be measured. His daughter, Serafima, is an aspiring singer with great potential, and her father’s anger is aroused when she begins singing in the operetta composed by Aleksei Mukhin, thus abandoning what he considers the higher calling of opera. Mukhin’s work, however, demands a high level of ability from his soloist, and Anton Ivanovich is persuaded of the legitimacy of operetta as a musical genre when, in a dream, he is visited by Johann Sebastian Bach himself, who tells him that ‘people need all kinds of music’.

Le film relate les débuts du mouvement stakhanoviste dans le Donbass. Le jeune mineur Stepan Koulaguine décide de changer les anciens calculs et normes d'extraction du charbon. La vieille génération de mineurs, y compris le directeur de la mine, est méfiante vis-à-vis de cette idée. Ils font diversion en provoquant une explosion dans la mine. Mais, malgré tout, le mouvement stakhanoviste gagne les travailleurs de tout le pays.

Arinka, a young girl who lives near the railroad, discovers a ring of spies who are preparing the terror act.