The first postwar years. The Director of a small breeding station Avdotya Pavlovna is not immediately convinced of the anti-science of the official Lysenkov direction in biology. But making sure leaving the farm as an ordinary agriculturist, where he works on breeding new wheat varieties on the basis of the persecuted Lysenkova chromosome theory of heredity.
Zinaida Dekhtyaryova
Avdotya Beloborodova
Valentina Vladimirova
School principal's wife
Izolda Izvitskaya
Nyura
Ivan Dmitriev
Shamray
Mykola Hrynko
school director
Zinoviy Gerdt
Gorbis
Semyon Likhogodenko
Сollective farm chairman
Eduard Bredun
Pasha
Galina Butovskaya
The first postwar years. The Director of a small breeding station Avdotya Pavlovna is not immediately convinced of the anti-science of the official Lysenkov direction in biology. But making sure leaving the farm as an ordinary agriculturist, where he works on breeding new wheat varieties on the basis of the persecuted Lysenkova chromosome theory of heredity.
The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.
Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes.
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.
While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
When lapsed Jew and former cardiologist Harry suddenly decides to spend his retirement as a pig farmer in Nazareth, Israel, the move deeply shocks his family and his new neighbours. Back in New York, Harry’s ex-wife Monica is trying to manage the lives of their adult children, Annabelle and David, as well as her own.
94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein tries to rebuild her life after the death of her best friend. As a result, she moves back to New York City after living in Florida for decades.
A Soviet woman is caught between her husband and son, who find themselves on opposing sides of the Russian Revolution.
Contemporary Russia. After he flubs a penalty kick, a humiliated national soccer player quits the game. He flees to a small town, where he decides to coach their local team.
Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.