Emil Braginskiy

A group of old friends have a tradition of going to a public bathing house on New Years eve. Occasionally too much vodka and beer makes two of them unconscious. The problem is that one of them (Sasha) has to go to Leningrad but another one (Zhenya) goes... (imdb)

Platon Ryabinin, a pianist, is traveling by train to a distant town of Griboedov to visit his father. He meets Vera, a waitress, after he refuses to pay her for the disgusting food he doesn't even touch and misses his train due to police investigation of the incident. During the few days that Platon has to spend in Zastupinsk he and Vera develop feelings for each other... (imdb)

The hero of the film is an insurance agent who is also a car thief. He steals cars only from various crooks and never from the good people. Then he sells those stolen cars and gives all the money to charity. His best friend is a cop who is working on this case. (imdb)

Anatoli Yefremovich Novoseltsev works in a statistics institution, whose director is an unattractive and bossy woman. An old friend of his, Yuri Grigorievich Samokhvalov, who gets appointed assistant director of the institution, wants to make Novoseltsev the head of the department but encounters objections from Ludmila Prokopievna Kalugina, the director. Samokhvalov then advises Novoseltsev to lightly hit on the boss. Ironically, Novoseltsev and Kalugina fall in love with each other... (imdb)

Zhenya's son, who never drinks, has too much vodka on New Years eve. His friends help him catch his plane and he goes home to Leningrad and to his apartment, but not in that part of Russia. In apartment, comes to lives a daughter of his father's first love. The history repeats itself.

A photo studio worker unexpectedly wins 10000 rubles. His co-workers decide that he must share winnings with them.

An old detective does not want to retire. The only way out is to prove to his boss that he still can catch criminals. The problem is that there were no crimes recently to work on. Together with his retired friend he decides to commit a perfect crime himself and then quickly solve it. Real problems start when a real criminal steals money he has stolen. Written by Konstantin Dlutskii (imdb)

An extremely rich old lady confesses to her niece Olga that she has hidden all her wealth under a 'lion' in her native city, Leningrad. The conversation is heard by other people and this generates a hunt for the old lady's hidden treasure. (bfi)

The members of a Soviet cooperative have pooled their money to have a parking garage built. But it turns out that the garage will have four fewer spaces than planned. In brutal Soviet style, the 4 least-well connected members are evicted from the cooperative in a mock vote, losing their entire investment. But one member does the unthinkable. As if taking on the entire corrupt Soviet system, she quixotically locks down the meeting room and throws away the key... (imdb)

Grateful pupils give the singing teacher a red dog Ting, whom he brings to his cramped apartment, where he lives with his wife and children. (imdb)

A romance blossoms between a young telephone line repair man and his neighbour, who continually calls the telephone company to report a fault.

The romantic comedy is a tale of two people who believe in love, but seem to never be able to find its true meaning. In a wild twist of events, fate puts each in the other's path on a stormy New Year's Eve and comedy and chaos ensue. (imdb)