Dmitry Yanyshevsky

The action of the film takes place in a small provincial town and is divided into four short stories connected with each other by storylines.

Contact between most towns on Earth has been severed. A small ring-like area in Eastern Europe still has electricity, and maybe even life is being reported from space. What military forces find outside the ring is shocking.

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The story of one day - August 12, 2012. The Earl's Court Exhibition Center in London is filled with fans. Millions of viewers around the world are waiting for the start of the broadcast of the final volleyball game among men's teams, which will determine the winner of the XXX Olympic Games. The Russian team that has never won gold. And the Brazilian national team, caressed by contracts, victories and loyal fans. Many people think that the outcome of the game is predetermined. But few people yet know what place this final occupies in the life of each of the Russian athletes.

Anya, a kind hardworking girl, lives with her mother Irina in the village of Opushkino. Irina has been working tirelessly all her life to ensure a happy future for her daughter, but the family is barely making ends meet.

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The year is 1953. Due to the mass amnesty, the criminal situation in the USSR is tense. At the same time, Ivan Astafyev, a former commander of a reconnaissance platoon, who was released from prison, returns to his hometown of Gorky. And immediately becomes a victim of an attack by bandits, and then a false accusation of beating the attackers. Ivan's pre—war acquaintance, Captain Shvedov, helps out of trouble, who gets him a job at the Dynamo sports society to train policemen in hand-to-hand combat.

When the German invaders come to the Don, the hero of the First World War, Semyon Neupokoev, gathers the Cossack hundred and stands up for the defense of his native land. The experience of fighting the Germans in 1914-1918, for which the fearless and savvy warrior was nicknamed the Charmed One, helps his hundred defeat German units in 1942, although the Germans now have tanks and cannons, and the Cossack still has the same saber, horse, and steppe all around. To break the resistance of the Conspirator and his loyal fighters, the enemy throws superior forces and equipment, led by an experienced commander, Colonel Ritter, who has had his own scores with Neupokoev since the First World War.