Ivan Tokarev

Romance, in Russian language

An ordinary working class boy, like all his peers, he played football day and night and dreamed of being a striker. But no matter which team he played for - in the yard, at the factory, or in the army - he was inevitably put in goal.

A Pacific liner, a beauty contest and gorgeous ladies in bikinis. Champagne and the blue ocean around... But suddenly a dream becomes a nightmare when an ex-TV star and three finalists find themselves on an uninhabited island. Feeling afraid of the girls' anger, the hero pretends that this was planned ahead making the girls believe that microphones and cameras are hidden in coconuts around the island. While the contestants are competing, the hero is looking for a way to escape from the island...

Tolya Sidorov is a simple worker of early retirement age from some remote place in Russia. Unexpectedly he discovers his artistic talent and becomes a sensation in the world of modern art. And all this because the creation of his masterpieces happens at a very intimate moment... The fame of the unusual artist spreads across the Internet, and even experts from Moscow come to visit an exhibition of Anatoly’s urinary painting. And like in the Russian fairy tale, the hero is miraculously showered with recognition and money. But Tolya prefers to stay incognito, trying to understand whether his work is real art. And the men from the factory would laugh at him if they found out.

Romance, in Russian language

They say that russian robotics is hopelessly behind the world. It’s a lie! We will look at the Izhevsk Dynamics plant, where robots are made, we will visit Izhevsk and Ussuriysk and listen to the enemy of robotisation Vitaly Nalivkin.

Victor Gromov, once a legend of Moscow’s criminal underworld known under the nickname “Butcher”, has since retired and now spends his days enjoying life on his farm. One day, Victor’s former “colleagues” show up and tell him that he must store the mafia’s common fund in his offshore bank account. Victor has no choice but to help them. Several months later, on the day when he is supposed to give the money back, Victor gets hit on the head by a falling billboard. As a result, he forgets the password to his bank account. Fleeing for his life from his former cronies, Victor decides to hide in a freight train’s boxcar but ends up getting locked inside. The train departs, and several days later he finds himself thousands of kilometers away from Moscow, in a small northern town called Polyarny, which, as it turns out, is not so easy to get out of...