One of the most popular TV miniseries in its home country, The Meeting Place Can't Be Changed is a police procedural set in post-World War II Moscow. Vladimir Sharapov (Vladimir Konkin), recently discharged from the Red Army, joins the homicide bureau of the local police. Sharapov, who tends to do everything by the book, often clashes with seasoned police detective Gleb Zheglov (Vladimir Vysotsky). The latter is so convinced that "a thief's place is in prison" that he does not stop at planting evidence himself if necessary. The two men learn to work together during a murder investigation that leads them to a gang of criminals known as "the Black Cat."

Vertical - The Film The question posed is: Why do men risk their lives to climb a mountain they don't need to climb? To test oneself - as in war.
To see what psychological strength one has. It is the very interesting question, what will happen to oneself when enough pressure is exerted. This pressure could be social, emotional, financial, intellectual, or physical. Ultimately it is all about facing terror. The terror of a community turned against you, or the pain of self-acknowledged failure, or the terror of death.
In the mountains, they stand alone against whatever will happen. For the several days they live in nature, they can rely only on themselves and each other. Elsewhere, there is always a fallback - here one is without a safety. This in itself can bring some to terror - the terror of having to rely on yourself - your own judgment, wits and fortitude. This is also the most incredible feeling of strength and independence. Knowing there is no safety means having to be one's own safety.
A child fears the darkness, and in his mind convinces himself that his father would always save him if anything occurred. He grows into youth and finds the strength to face the dark on his own resources. If something should be lurking there, he tells himself, he will have to face it with his own mind and body.
The mountains are the darkness.
Being away from everyone. Faced with the immense - the eternal and the overpowering. Overcoming the immense - the perilous crags and sharp ridges - like ants crawling on a tree. Yet that gives us the sense that we can achieve anything. In times of war these men would be heroes. In times of peace - unable to find an outlet for their power, they turn to the mountains.
The mountains also provide a purer, simpler and more peaceful challenge than they could find in society.
There are tremendous unscaled summits in politics, in business, and in culture. However, in these matters most is decided by society - rather than brute nature.
In politics, academia, etc, often the best man does not attain the summit because of factions, gossip, etc.

故事发生在1948年左右。俄国一个偏远小镇上的英语老师娜兹达和她并不相爱的军官丈夫生活在一起。娜兹达在丈夫举办的家宴上邂逅了前同事、物理老师多米瑞，他是退伍军人，原来教物理，现在辞职搞发明，寄居村民家，甚至没有粮食定量卡。他醉心于发明一种铸造设备，可以浇铸更大、更长的管子；而娜兹达的丈夫拥护的是院士的方案，这一方案拟参评斯大林奖金，却被多米瑞指为落后，因此娜兹达的丈夫仇视多米瑞，并在家宴上出言嘲弄，多米瑞愤而离去。他孤身来到莫斯科寻求支持，但在部里组织的专家听证会上却因不是工程师而被嘲笑为外行、异想天开。

与会的老教授布斯科是一位谨小慎微的天才，不被当局信任。他把多米瑞接到家里同住，并共同进行研究。娜兹达为多米瑞吸引，卖掉了价值不菲的毛皮大衣，资助多米瑞。她与丈夫的关系急剧恶化，只身到莫斯科与多米瑞同居。项目一度得到部方的支持，给多米瑞安排了一个工作室及几名助手，娜兹达也加入项目，帮助翻译资料。

娜兹达已珠胎暗结。她的丈夫出于一贯的成见，以及夺妻之恨，设计陷害多米瑞。多米瑞被诬陷泄漏国家机密，入狱服刑，研究成果也付之一炬。娜兹达为多米瑞产下一子。她拿着仅存的一本记录了设备设计方案的笔记本，向当时曾表示支持多米瑞的某高官求助。

在高官的安排下，娜兹达带着儿子，与多米瑞隔着监狱的铁窗相望...... db

In the seventeenth century, Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked on a desert island and is the only survivor. He takes steps to get food and shelter, hoping one day to be rescued. One day a band of black men arrive by boat and are about to execute one of their number; Crusoe saves him and drives them off, and names the man Friday, and teaches him Crusoe's on language. They survive together, but will they ever be rescued?