Cinematography: Aleksandr Knyazhinsky

Direction Andrei Tarkovsky

Cast Aleksandr Kaidanovsky · Anatoly Solonitsyn · Nikolai Grinko · Natalya Abramova

Plot The setting is an unnamed country in an unforeseen postapocalyptic future. A meteorite has landed, and its impact has created a mysterious phenomenon known as the Zone, within which resides...

Direction Alexander Zeldovich

Cast Ramaz Chkhikvadze · Viktor Gvozditsky · Zinovi Korogodsky · Marina Mayko

Direction Andrey Smirnov

Cast Natalya Rudnaya · Leonid Kulagin · Natalya Gundareva · Alexandr Fatiushin

Plot Two old lovers reunite to see if they were meant to be together; the effort teaches them plenty about the true nature of love.

Direction Aleksandr Knyazhinsky · Albert Mkrtchyan

Cast Aleksey Ablepikhin · Ivan Bortnik · Aleksandra Kolkunova · Vladimir Kukushkin

Plot A delinquent boy of about fifteen years is sent to a reformatory and there finds himself in more trouble than he was in the outside world.

Direction Nikolai Gubenko

Cast Aleksei Cherstvov · Juozas Budraitis · Zhanna Bolotova · Evgeni Evstigneev

Direction Larisa Shepitko

Cast Leonid Dyachkov · Yuri Vizbor · Alla Demidova · Natalya Bondarchuk