A backwater prison house is expecting a high-profile international inspection. The delegation members will review living conditions and inmates’ «customer experience». Both conditions and inmates’ sentiments are far from perfect. But positive review from the inspection panel is a must! So General Hobotov, who is in charge of the prison house, thinks out of the box. He orders to replace real inmates with actors, who, for a hefty fee, will act as the most satisfied and happy crooks in the world. But things get complicated: some real inmates are left behind, and prison’s guards are desperately trying to hide the secret diamond mining business they handle together with the convicts.
A refrigerator truck with naked bodies of four females is found on the border of Finland. Each of the girls share the same neck tattoo that resembles a house. The identities of the the girls are yet to be found. Three years later, the police arrest Valeria Mazyane, an orphaned girl and a recent Islam convert who lives in Moscow in a Kyrgyz immigrant community. The police believe she killed her husband’s brother. It turns out that Valeria is not an orphan after all, and her past is as mysterious as the man’s murder. And under her wedding hijab, there’s a familiar house tattoo.
Denis Dubov is a professional cleaner: he cleans crime scenes and gets rid of traces of murders, so he knows too much. But even taking refuge in a small southern town, he continues to attract trouble. So on his doorstep there is a thunderstorm of local crime, a harsh but fair investigator Diana and her not the smartest, but persistent assistant Hajdukov. And to prove his innocence, the cleaner will have to challenge the entire criminal district.
Zhenya Zhuravleva is a freelance police officer. She helps solve crimes thanks to an incredible ability: she has visionary dreams in places where someone has died. Captain Makarov, who attracted her to work in the police, believes that this is a great gift. Zhenya herself considers her ability to be a curse. Zhuravleva only has to figure out if this is true, and at the same time figure out herself, comprehend the reason for the appearance of this ability and understand that her whole life is not what it seems.
Captain Emelin, nicknamed Emelya, Captain Vasin and Dolbunov are investigating the most complicated crimes, and criminologist Masha Likhacheva helps them in this. Emelya's reputation is so-so, the head of the department, Colonel Khitruk, dislikes him for his independent character, but has to put up with him because Emelya has a good disclosure.
Lavrenty Semenovich Timoshin, or simply Lavrik, is a young, promising, but very anxious candidate of sciences, who heads the biochemistry laboratory of a serious research institute and has been developing a cure for fear for several years. Mostly from his own. Lavrik is afraid of everything — scientific achievements, his mother's anger, love and reforms at the National Research University. The latter are not long in coming. The rector of the Bogomolov Institute, who has held this position for a long time, wants to give up his post to the younger generation, and Lavrik is the best candidate. But will this position be a boon for Lavrik and will it still allow him to complete his research, especially when such drastic changes go far beyond career growth?
Tomsk in 2021, 2025 and 2030. The characters actively use social networks and literally can't imagine how to live without them. Having the opportunity to communicate with the whole world, people feel more lonely.
The documentary series tells about the history of the new Russian cinema in the context of events that changed Russia forever. The narrative is built in chronological order: from 1992, when the first film was released, where "Russia" was listed in the output data instead of "USSR", to the present. Directors, actors and producers will share their memories of the path in Russian cinema. Among them are Fyodor Bondarchuk, Gosha Kutsenko, Evgeny Tsyganov, Zhora Gooseberry, Pyotr Buslov, Elena Lyadova, Vladimir Khotinenko, Valeria Guy Germanika, Sergey Selyanov, Egor Konchalovsky and many others.
The parents send the student Stepa to the village for summer holidays to his grandmother — as punishment. Here he is forced to abandon modern technological benefits and live by the rules of the village. Running away from local teenagers once again, Stepa tries to hide in a well, but falls into it. When he gets out, he realizes that he has found himself in a real Cossack village of the 17th century. At the most important historical moment of our country. By the will of fate, Stepa will learn a lot from her distant ancestors, find real friends and learn in practice the history lesson that was filled up at school.
The long weeks of coronavirus quarantine are finally over! The characters, with all their thirst for a free life, return to everyday reality, all the charms of which we so acutely realized only after losing them during the pandemic. Including our work, which is so lazy to get up in the morning, where the boss gets annoyed, they pay little, and the vacation was canceled again. But this time it is at the workplaces of the heroes that serious love passions will unfold.
Budding metropolitan investigator Oleg Khlebnikov kills a criminal during detention. Oleg is sure that the villains should be punished not only by the court. The deceased turns out to be a media person, and in order to hush up the scandal, his death is called an accident, and Khlebnikov is sent to the taiga city to sit out the watch, and soon return to Moscow. It won't work on a quiet business trip.
Most recently, Sanya paid off the mortgage on the apartment and became a typical positive person. But in his youth, he lived in a completely different way: fights at local discos, showdowns on the streets. All this in the company of Pasha's authoritative older brother, whose fists have not healed since childhood. Pavel has not changed over the years, and at the age of 30 he plans to participate in bare-knuckle fighting. Having met after a long separation, the brothers drank too much and got into an accident: several new cars in the car dealership were broken through their fault. At one point, Sanya got a huge debt, lost his job and wife, and Pasha broke his arm. Now the younger brother is forced to act instead of the elder in fights without rules in order to pay off and return the family.
Artyom is in quarantine at home. At first, he even likes that he is left to himself — the family is in the country, the boss, although he appears with ridiculous initiatives, but only by phone. And everything would be fine, but soon Artyom begins to notice strange things: half of the scrambled eggs disappears before his eyes, a glass of whiskey moves into the bathroom itself, and an obscene drawing of magnets appears on the refrigerator. Trying to figure it out, Artyom realizes that it's all Barabashka's fault, who needs to be limed at all costs.
Denis Sazonov, a former driver of the KAMAZ-master racing team, wants to return to his native team after a 12-year break and collapse on all fronts of life. But it turns out to be difficult: once, having become the youngest world champion in the history of rally raids, he was fired from KAMAZ-master for violating team ethics. Denis wants to regain his sense of self-respect and involvement in the "big deal" and win the rally raid again. But no one is waiting for him in the team. Eremin, the deputy director of the team, does not want to give him a chance, because he believes that Denis violated the team rules. Sazonov gets a job as a cleaner in the team, going all the way "to the wheel" from the very beginning. But even here an unpleasant surprise awaits him: he meets his ex-wife Zhenya, who plans to take the place of navigator and become the first female pilot in the men's team.
The young and zealous opera Titov unwittingly disrupts the operation of the department for combating drug trafficking. By chance, he wounds one of the employees of the "outdoor" Lookout, and brings his partner to dismissal. As punishment for the failure of the operation, Titov is transferred to the OPU — the operational search department, the "outdoor", and appointed a partner of the Lookout. He is a professional in his field and does everything according to the textbook, which cannot be said about Titov. By chance, typical antagonists by nature and lifestyle are forced to be side by side almost 24 hours a day. Therefore, each surveillance of the partners turns into a cavalcade of events, as a result of which the crime is solved.