Sergey Barabanshchikov

Having abandoned his family many years ago, a father meets his grown-up son...

Agricultural technical school graduate Valya Didenko, having become a production leader and then a people's deputy, fell in love with her patron - the chairman of the collective farm. However, happiness was not destined to happen. Having deliberately violated long-outdated instructions, the chairman was accused of fraud and brought to trial.

The difficult fate of a man who went through the war, the horror of Hitler’s and Stalin’s camps, but retained fortitude, decency and purity.

Moscow outskirts, spring 1956. In memory and soul of the sixteen-year-old hero of the movie, the son of the political prisoner, this time will remain forever. He meets and loses his first love, encounters with blunt brutality of the criminal world, to bid farewell to childhood, to regain his father...

Feature film based on a Russian fairy tale. A smart but lazy farm boy is sent to fetch water by his mother. He catches a magical fish that promises to grant his every wish if he gives him his life.