They Conquer the Skies

The end of the 1940s. Test pilot Aleksei Kolchin was commissioned for the first time to fly the first Soviet jet fighter. The tests are successful, but it is necessary to improve the aircraft. When performing a test flight, Kolchin dies, his last words are recorded on tape. Having studied them, Kolchin's friend Sergei Sharov makes a new attempt and completes the test of the aircraft.

To Love

Four love stories connected by newsreels of the late 60s. Each short story begins with an epigraph taken from the Song of Songs of the Old Testament. The stories are interconnected by documentary shots and numerous interviews taken on the streets from passers-by who are asked the same question: “what does it mean to love?”.

Clean Ponds

A poetic biography of a generation of young pre-war and wartime people, based on the works of Yuri Nagibin. Four inseparable friends — Sergei, Nina, Oska and Zhenya — spent all their school childhood on the Clean Ponds, in Moscow. But the school is over, and in their beloved gazebo they dream of the future, swear fidelity to each other and do not yet know that tomorrow war will break out and they will become participants in terrible events …

Cigarette Girl

The cigarette saleswoman from the 1924 film of the same name ends up with her stall in Moscow in the 1960s. Moscow has changed. Mosselprom is long gone. Passers-by are not particularly interested in her product. The policeman asks her to leave the busy place and not disturb passers-by. The girl wanders around the city, looking for a place for herself. But the new city is alien and it only makes her head spin. There is only one choice left - to go back to the past. Course work of Sulambek Mamilov