A classic detective story based on one of the best-loved Golden Age crime writers, Cyril Hare, novel "An English Murder" originally published in 1951. The setting of An English Murder seems, at first, to be a very conventional one. A group of family and friends come together for Christmas at a country house, Warbeck Hall. The house is owned by Lord Warbeck, a dying and impoverished peer who wants to be among loved ones for what he thinks will be his last Christmas. The holiday decorations are up and snow is falling fast outside. The guests range from the Lord's difficult son to a visiting Czech historian. There is, of course, a faithful butler and his ambitious daughter. But when the murders begin, there is nothing at all conventional about them - or the manner of their detection...

The main events unfold in the train. The acceptance committee from Moscow, revealing deficiencies in the constructed bakery, did not sign the act of its delivery. But the fate of not only many people associated with the construction, but also the life of the town as a whole depends on this. Lyonya Shindin — a conscientious and decent man — is trying by all means and by any means to change the decision of the commission...

A young Russian girl is in love with show business and wants to leave her small town for Moscow and make it big in the big city. She encounters her long missing, remarried father and gets a boy friend who uses her and then leaves her.

Katya, a plain-looking girl, works as a secretary at the company Zimaletto, a manufacturer of uniforms and wedding dresses. No man has paid attention to her yet, but she doesn't allow her looks to keep her from dreaming about love and happiness.

The story about an enamored singing dog who isn't thoroughbred - that's a minus, but honorable - that's a plus.

伊琳娜·穆拉维约娃同志在设计局绘图部门工作，为人本分、朴素得过分，因此人到中年但依旧孑然一身。某一天她在街上偶遇自己多年不见的中学女友塔吉扬娜·瓦西里耶娃，后者风姿倬约，令人过目难忘。塔吉扬娜得知伊琳娜至今未婚，唏嘘之余拍着胸脯担保：无论如何要拉好朋友一把，给伊琳娜找个如意郎君。 对于这个承诺，我们有足够的理由寄予期望，须知承诺者是一名出色的心理学家兼社会学家～
塔吉扬娜为伊琳娜精心设计的“钓鱼”方案一步步付诸实施，目标对象锁定单身帅哥阿布杜洛夫(剧照里穿坎肩下棋的那位)... 结果呢，部门里全体男士都被面貌焕然一新的伊琳娜迷住了，用一种前所未有的眼光来打量她... 最终上钩的“牺牲者”究竟是谁，观众在看完这部令人开怀并且相当聪明的影片之后自然会明白。
在我看来，这部影片最值得称许之处在于设计局绘图部全体同仁的“群像”、日常生活的点点滴滴以及人们之间的相互关系——几乎像是梁赞诺夫《办公室的故事》里的统计局。（译者注：这是俄国影迷的话）

1979 film by Vladimir Menshov