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On New Year's Eve, in the forest palace of culture, the animals staged a beauty contest, in which the winner was determined by a computer. Meanwhile, the computer-savvy mother crow wants to make sure her daughter wins. She succeeds, and the beautiful Fox leaves the palace upset. The kind-hearted winner gives her the crown, realizing that she received it undeservedly. When Foxy won the competition and became Miss New Year, little Crow became Miss Honesty.
Old scientist Bashkirtsev is very surprised to discover the possible contacts with other world...
The self-taught inventor Kostylin, convinced of the expediency of his latest work, this time decided to seek recognition to the end.
Lida Karyakina is 15 years old. At school, she has constant conflicts, not everything is alright at home. The girl decides to leave school and go to work. Having worked in different places, Lida understands that her vocation is to raise children...
Before leaving for the USSR, a West German journalist meets his father, who was in Russia in 1922, where he met, fell in love with and lost forever a Russian translator. Sixty years later, the son follows his father's route...
A good guy from a prosperous family Gena Rusanov studies at the institute, loves a girl and is ready to get married. The bride is happy and is also looking forward to the wedding. And suddenly something happens to Gena. He starts drinking vodka and very quickly sinks to the bottom. But he is watched by good and sensitive people. They will not let Gena finally perish and will help him to return to an honest and healthy life.
The life of Pavla Brus, a middle-aged, modest but principled woman, suddenly changes with a crush on a drilling foreman. Unable to restrain her feelings, she decides to cheat on her husband, divorce and leave the family. But her youngest son Kuzma, a teenager with an intelligent and piercing look at the world around him, stops her from a rash act, which is shaped by observation of Siberian nature. A philosophical attitude towards banal life processes allows the mother to reconsider her feelings for her husband Tikhon and the failed lover Nikolai.
Scientist Derevushkin is going to make a parachute jump on his 60th birthday. Having learned about this, his family is concerned: if Derevushkin dies, then who will get the inheritance.
The lack of spirituality and the limitations of the “respectable” bourgeois turn the values of art into a means of profit, into an object of vanity.
