Denis Manokhin

11 septembre 2001. Du haut des montagnes afghanes, Vergos, journaliste français, apprend l'attaque des tours du World Trade Center par les terroristes d'Al-Quaida. Il se souvient...1984. Nikolaï, jeune musicien soviétique, débarque en Afghanistan comme des milliers d'autres conscrits pour livrer une guerre qui n'est pas la sienne. La peur au ventre à chaque instant, il se retrouve plongé dans un monde de violence et de mort. Un jour, lors d'une opération commandée, il est capturé par des Moudjahidin du Commandant Massoud qui l'emmènent au coeur des montagnes où se terrent les résistants afghans et Vergos, venu clandestinement en Afghanistan. Tandis que certains veulent sa mort, d'autres se prennent de compassion pour lui. Peu à peu, des liens d'amitié et de complicité se nouent entre le soldat soviétique, le journaliste français, et les Moudjahidin...

Fyodor a single artist suddenly discovers about his young brother who is living in a foster home.

A year later the men are still talking, but this time on the 31st of December and still about the women, football, children, and, of course, about the approaching New Year’s celebration. But what can they do, if their beloved wives and girls are waiting for them at Kamil’s, busy with New Year tree decoration and cooking, and the husbands are accidentally got stuck in the advertising agency office? Will they manage to get home in time to celebrate the New Year together?

The main characters of the film are residents of different places of this country, most common people, with whom most uncommon things, pure wonders, happen. Semyon and Lyuba, a family of fireguards, have a chance to fulfill a dream – to go to Moscow to take part in their favorite TV show “Field of Miracles” (“Pole Chudes”), where they should make a life choice “trophy or money?” An inexperienced officer of Patrol-Guard Service and at the same time an experienced loser Sanya will have to not only survive his first day of service but also to accept his wife’s labors and to reanimate his partner. Four newly acquainted fellows must by any means fly to Moscow in non-flying weather, and a couple of young lovers must reconcile their irreconcilable parents by some mysterious way. Valera has to decide on a dilemma: to save mankind from the Deluge or just to fly with his karaoke-alien-friends in their old UFO? All these things can happen only once a year – on December, 31!