A sex icon becomes a spy during one of the most important wars of the 20th century. To survive, Margaret becomes an exotic dancer after her husband leaves her. When the world stands on the edge of WWI, she becomes Mata Hari, a spy with unprecedented access to the European elite.
Vasilisa Kremneva (Maria Kozhevnikova)-senior employee of the press center of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. She has just been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, but Vasilisa has long dreamed of doing real work. After all, instead of catching criminals, she is forced to work as a "talking head" - to tell the audience about the achievements of law enforcement agencies. However, despite all her requests, the authorities (Emmanuel Vitorgan) refuse to transfer the beauty, who has long become the" face " of the Committee, to operational work. Radically change the life of a girl helps the case.
The year is 1982. Katya Koroleva, an athlete and a beauty, flees from the investigation to her sister in Moscow. Her sister gets her a job as a saleswoman at the Porcelain House store. Here Katya meets a KGB general, not knowing that her sister is cooperating with him. On the eve of Brezhnev's death, a real confrontation begins between two structures - the Interior Ministry and the KGB. Katya finds herself drawn into both this confrontation and a love triangle. And she is also overtaken by a criminal history, from which she escaped from Belgorod at one time.
Major Sarmatov, commander of a special-purpose unit, has been on assignments in almost all hot spot regions. Now he receives a particularly important assignment: to kidnap the American secret agent Matlow in the neighboring eastern state.
Former commander Kotov, unjustly convicted in the 30s as an enemy of the people, miraculously survived and was sent to war by an ordinary ordinary soldier of the penal battalion. He fought like everyone else: in mud, cold and hunger, without looking into the future for more than one day, and even that he had to be able to live. To live and survive in the hell that was the military front line. His faith saved him. Faith in his country, faith in God and the faith of his daughter Nadia that the father is alive…
In late-19th-century Russian high society, St. Petersburg aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the dashing Count Alexei Vronsky. An eight part adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina" from Vronsky's point of view.
The year is 1930. In a small Tartar village, a woman named Zuleikha watches as her husband is murdered by communists. Zuleikha herself is sent into exile, enduring a horrendous train journey to a remote spot on the Angara River in Siberia. Conditions in the camp are tough, and many of her group do not survive the first difficult winter. As she gradually settles into a routine, Zuleikha starts to get to know her companions. The eclectic group includes a rather dotty doctor, an artist who paints on the sly, and Ignatov, Zuleikha's husband's killer. A screen version of the best-selling novel by Guzel Yakhina.
The parody series "Sancho from the Ranch" was part of the St. Petersburg television program "Chameleon", curated by the famous director Yuri Mamin. The idea of this parody was that the supposedly Mexican TV series "Sancho from the Ranch" was seen by viewers in two guises at once: on the screen and behind the screen. On the screen there are heartbreaking incidents in sunny Mexico, and off the screen an ordinary Russian family is watching them with excitement – grandmother and grandfather, father and mother, daughter and son. The trick is that they also appear in exotic Mexican roles, and seem to be watching themselves.
1961. A small town Strunevo behind 101-st kilometer. In contrast to the neighboring cities and villages, the crimes here do not happen often, but - crime disclosing is one of the best in the USSR. But while investigating the death of a school teacher operative Rodion Stotskii discovers that Strunevo - is 'the house, where is no shit', and the hosts in this house are "trusties" and "thieves in law" who chose this small town after the amnesty. And the majority of robberies and armed assaults in the neighboring cities and villages - most likely is the handiwork of the peaceful Strunevo inhabitants.
The humorous show of Yuriy Stoyanov, in which the master of parodies and reincarnations will offer the viewer a whole gallery of funny characters. And a galaxy of wonderful artists will help him, many of which will appear in a completely new and unexpected role.
The story of Fyodor Chaliapin is a man who grew up in a peasant family, but was able to break into the brilliant world of theater and conquered heights that no one had ever reached before. Did he find the love of millions, could not achieve personal happiness on his own and make a choice between two beloved women? About how the strength of character and talent can lift a person to the stars and give them the opportunity to shine all over the world.