Overview: ASSA is set in Crimea during the winter in the mid eighties. A young musician (Bananan) falls for mobster's (Krymov) young mistress (Alika). The parallel story line involves an 18th century assassination plot.
Overview: A negligent student of the Academy of Fine Arts is late for a drawing lesson and instead of an analytical drawing of a plaster Venus, he hastily "paints" a red square, after which he is subjected to a demonstrative flogging by the professor.
Overview: Peasant Nikifor Bubnov goes to the mining regions of Donbass to earn money for a horse. People working nearby become his friends - with them he supports and develops the Stakhanov movement.
