The end of the 19th century. Ivan Khvatov is a former military man with a stern character who knows the value of human life. He works as a probation officer and is already thinking about leaving the service when his small town is shocked by the brutal murder of an entire Okhapkin family.

Moscow, 1902. The famous director Konstantin Stanislavsky, in search of inspiration for staging a new play, decides to get acquainted with the life of the city "bottom". He turns to Vladimir Gilyarovsky, a recognized expert on the Moscow slums, for help.

Director Lydia Bobrova pictures the bleak life in the Russian countryside by showing some events in the life of three brothers and their families. The three brothers are different in character, but all suffer from the dreariness of kolchoz life. The title is derived from a nostalgic Russian song. The wild geese have the possibility of moving on to milder climes, a possibility that Russian country people don’t have.

Yuri Bragin, after a year-long business trip, where he, as part of an investigation team, was investigating a high-profile case, returns to St. Petersburg. When he returns, he learns that the current head of the First Investigation Department of the First Directorate of the State Investigation Department, Vadim Maltsev, is retiring. With a high degree of probability, it is Bragin who will be offered his place. But Yuri is not a careerist and the position of the boss is not the goal of his life. A talented investigator likes to do "live work" more. And now he is again sent on a business trip. This time in one of the cities of the Leningrad region, where two girls were killed with a difference of a week. Here, in a small town, everyone knows each other, and this complicates the search for the criminal.

How to take the throne when you are the fourteenth child in the family? How to win access to the sea when there is no professional army and navy in the country? How in a few decades to bring a country to the world leaders that no one had considered before? These and many other questions are answered by Andrey Kravchuk's documentary-art blockbuster about the formation and reign of Emperor Peter the Great, whose figure still excites the minds of people all over the world.

2016 television programme

tv show aired in 2017

The movie is shot based on the biographic story of Sergey Dovlatov "Compromise", tells about an era in which created, despite bans, had sex which "wasn't", and fought for the right to be heard contrary to universal control. And waited for an era of which end were afraid - An era which, despite everything, remained fine.

Russian troops occupied Paris. Russia became the first power in the world. Now everything seems possible. Young winners, guards officers, are sure that equality and freedom will come - here and now. For this they are ready to sacrifice everything - position, wealth, love, life ... and the country itself.

2017 Russian film by Anton Megerdichev