TV series

Actor Barkhanov is hired as a bodyguard for a very rich person in this criminal comedy from mid-nineties.

There is a seven-year war, Russian soldiers are forced to fight for the interests of France and Austria against Prussia. The midshipmen continue to selflessly serve the Motherland. One is on an expedition, the other is at court, and the third is sent to Venice to hand over a jewelry box. In fact, there is a message in the box, on which the future fate of Europe and Russia depends!

Grandfather and grandson live in one apartment. Grandson is a student, and grandfather is a former security officer who spent time in the camps. Out of love for his grandfather, the grandson preserves the situation of perpetual interrogation, inviting “clients” from time to time ...

The social ferment in late 19th century Russia which led to the 1917 Russian Revolution is movingly portrayed in this lengthy historical drama, which is very faithful to the 1907 novel The Mother by the celebrated Marxist writer Maxim Gorky (1868-1936). In the story, "the mother" (Inna Tchourikova) has no other recourse than to watch her decent, kindly husband turn into an animalistic, drunken brute as a result of working in the inhuman conditions of a steel mill in the town of Sormovo. When he begins to express his suppressed rage by beating her, she is defended by her teenaged son Pavel (depicted Viktor Rakov as an adult, Sacha Chichonok as a boy). After his father's death, Pavel is forced to go to work in the same factory. However, Pavel and his friends begin investigating Marxism and socialist thought, and work to organize their fellow workers.

这部云集俄罗斯最著名的影星，创下当时成本纪录的大制作影片早在1994年拍成，但一直未曾正式上映过抑或发行DVD版本，原因就在于导演同制片人之间关于影片剪辑的矛盾。直到今年4月7日，这部争议影片才重见天日