Veronika and Boris come together in Moscow shortly before World War II. Walking along the river, they watch cranes fly overhead, and promise to rendezvous before Boris leaves to fight. Boris misses the meeting and is off to the front lines, while Veronika waits patiently, sending letters faithfully. After her house is bombed, Veronika moves in with Boris' family, into the company of a cousin with his own intentions.

Four vignettes on the lives of the Cuban people in the pre-revolutionary era. In Havana, Maria is ashamed when a man she loves discovers how she makes a living. Pedro, an old farmer, discovers that the land he cultivates is being sold to an American company. A student sees his friends attacked by the police while they distribute leaflets supporting Fidel Castro. Finally, a peasant family is threatened by Batista's army.

Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A stalker guides two men into the Zone, specifically to an area in which deep-seated desires are granted.

A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death of a doctor and the mental problems of cosmonauts on the station. He soon discovers that the water on the planet is a type of brain which brings out repressed memories and obsessions.

According to Winnie-the-Pooh himself, bears love honey very much. That's why it always runs out very quickly. And you can't do without honey, so Winnie, along with Piglet, sets off for a tall tree with a beehive hanging from it. Winnie fearlessly climbs up to the beehive on a balloon, singing a song about a little cloud.

The day after his funeral, the corpse of Varlam Aravidze, the mayor of a small Georgian town, turns up in his son's garden. Although it is secretly reburied, the corpse keeps returning until the police capture the local woman who is responsible. This woman says that Varlam should never be laid to rest since his Stalin-like reign of terror led to the disappearance of her family and friends.

A farmer and his wife live in a rural part of Inner Mongolia with their three children. Chinese population control policies prevent them from having any more. The farmer sets out for the nearest town to obtain birth control. He comes upon a Russian truck driver who has ended up in a lake. The farmer takes the man back to his farm, and after initially being appalled, the Russian becomes enchanted with the peaceful life of the countryside and decides to stay. But his presence presages big changes for the peasants.

Vera is a troubled teenager fresh out of school feeling trapped in her provincial port town during the turbulent times of perestroika. Her days and nights are filled with drinking, sex, and family dysfunction.

Pioneer leader Serge, a sculptor, decides to work in a new plastic material, among creatively gifted children in a camp located in an old mansion. Pioneer Lopukhin is so in love with his classmate Ergolina that he does not notice how fascinated Sonya Zagremukhina is with him. Showing their emotions and moods helps their participation in the production of the play "Masquerade" by Lermontov, and the play itself imperceptibly turns into a drama with unexpected confessions, insults, jealousy, and outbursts. The teens are so busy with their feelings that they do not pay attention to the pedagogical ideas of Pioneer Serge, and by the end of the film, with no additional encouragement, they are ready for a commemoration of first love.

本片拍摄于1966年，完成后因片中真实地展现了苏联农村的贫困生活而遭到当时政府的禁映，直到20年后的1987年才得以解禁。影片获1988年意大利别扎洛国际电影节特别奖，1988年柏林电影节非竞赛单元国际影评联合会大奖。
60年代中期的苏联农村。集体农庄的女厨师阿霞是个貌不出众的跛 脚女人。她爱上了村里的司机斯捷潘并怀了他的孩子。斯捷潘蛮横傲慢，一身恶习，对阿霞怀孕的事情表现得非常冷淡，倒是村里的鳏夫齐尔库诺夫深爱着阿霞，并想娶她为妻，但是遭到了阿霞的拒绝。
低矮简陋的民居，一望无际的农田，夏季灼人的阳光和弯腰劳作的农民。贫困环境中的一个普通三角恋情故事，因为叙事的真切朴实脱颖而出。伊·萨维娜栩栩如生地刻画出女主人公善良、隐忍、坚贞和博爱的品格，而这些也正是俄罗斯民族的典型精神性特征。
导演阿·米哈尔科夫－康恰洛夫斯基的作品体裁多样，涉及题材广泛，他犹如一个在荒漠行走的诗人，永远向自己的极限挑战。他善于在作品中运用隐喻和象征手法。自然主义、现实主义、间离效果在他的影片中相互融合。本片的一大亮点是片中除了三个职业演员（严格的说是两个，因为扮演斯捷潘的亚·苏林其实是名导演）外，其余人物均由非职业演员出演。于是，他们把生活中真实的欢笑与痛苦载入胶片，赋予了影片难得的记录性。

Four former soldiers reunite 25 years after the war. Last time they saw each other on the Byelorussian railway station in the summer of 1945. Now they've come together to mourn the death of a friend.

A military explorer meets and befriends a Goldi man in Russia’s unmapped forests. A deep and abiding bond evolves between the two men, one civilized in the usual sense, the other at home in the glacial Siberian woods.

1977 film by Eldar Ryazanov

1979 film by Georgiy Daneliya