Космический корабль с юными астронавтами на борту приближается к планете Шедар созвездия Альфа Кассиопеи. Выясняется, что здесь власть захватили роботы-повелители, цель которых - осчастливить жителей планеты, лишив их всех чувств: любви, дружбы, совести... Ребятам предстоит преодолеть множество сложных проблем и проявить исключительную изобретательность, прежде чем обитатели планеты смогут снова стать настоящими людьми.

Four former soldiers reunite 25 years after the war. Last time they saw each other on the Byelorussian railway station in the summer of 1945. Now they've come together to mourn the death of a friend.

The movie is set in the 1930s in the Soviet Union at the construction site of the Magnitogorskiy metallurgical factory. The story is about one day in the process of building up the factory. After news arrived that workers in Kharkov have achieved higher results and set the record, the workers at Magnitogorskiy start to work their hardest in order to set new record and win the socialist competition. A journalist arrives from Moscow to look for the hero for his reportage on the construction project.

The story about a very small god-forgotten village in Siberia reflects the history of Russia from the beginning of the century till the early 1980s. Three generations try to find the land of happiness and to give it to the people. One builds the road through taiga to the star over horizon, the second 'build communism' and the third searches for oil.

Two middle-aged doctors and longtime friends reunite after a long separation and find themselves in a love triangle. Pyotr, Sasha, and Katya feel that life has passed them by. They seek spiritual salvation in a cruel modern world.