Overview: An aged actor, after canceling his last performance, decides to die by applying Stanislavsky’s system and providing catharsis for a random fellow traveler.
Overview: Journalist Shurik arrives in the Caucasus in order to study local culture and folklore, the ancient customs and traditions of the people in this region. Per chance he meets and befriends a girl in a mountainous town, the beauty Nina, which the gouvernor, wealthy and powerful local Saakhov, is planning to marry — if not willingly then by force. Using the gullible journalist as a strawman, Saakhov and his henchmen (the "Coward", the "Fool", and the "Pro", a trio of comic antiheros) are able to kidnap Nina, all seems to work according to plan. But realizing that he had been deceived, Shurik, who fell for Nina, rushes to rescue his beloved one, for a happy ending.
Overview: Fate decides to test the strength of Ludmilla. Luda is left with the children homeless. Close people show their true colors: mother in law will not let her under her roof, and the girlfriend refuses to give her shelter. Can Lyudmila overcome her difficulties and start a new life?
