年轻男子面临敬爱父亲的突然去世，伤心的他只能独自承担处理父亲后事的责任。

This bleak late soviet-era drama follows the career of Malyanov, a young medical school graduate who has been sent to work in Turkmenia. Here he runs into a hodge-podge of people of differing ethnicities, all of them victims of the government's earlier mania for relocating and eliminating whole ethnic groups and classes of people. These desperately unhappy people are unable to find any pleasure in this diverse companionship, but instead are antagonistic to it, and often resort to desperate measures in their doomed attempts to ease their pain.

A rich woman accidently comes across a conversation on the phone about people talking about a murder.

The action in this lavishly produced film takes place at an oddly ark-shaped mansion during World War I, and in spirit (although not in story) it reflects the play which inspired it, the ferociously antiwar Heartbreak House by George Bernard Shaw. A large group of family and friends have gathered at this country house to dance, drink, and converse. Their conversation, in particular, is adorned with erudite literary references and quotations. Despite their apparent refinement, their preoccupations are simple: sex and violence. Disquieting images break the tranquility of the vacationers' inappropriate idyll: some of these include documentary footage of starving African children, images (both real and re-enacted) of George Bernard Shaw going about his daily life, and a corpse coming to life on an autopsy table, only to cheapen that miracle by scolding a group of women. The music used in the film ironically points to its disturbing message and is uniformly anachronistic.

Set in the early 1920s after the end of the Russian Civil War, Red Army soldier Nikita returns to his hometown to see his partner Lyuba, both of whom are scarred by the trauma of the Russian Empire of yesteryear.

本片讲述了一对父子之间朦胧迷离的感情。阿列克谢（阿里克谢·尼穆斯霍夫 Aleksei Nejmyshev 饰）的父亲（安德烈·薛提宁 Andrei Shchetinin 饰）是一个退伍军人，父子二人相依为命，父亲离不开儿子，儿子也非常依赖父亲。因为父亲的关系，阿列克 谢也进入了军校，他的父亲经常到军校探视他。某日，阿列克谢的女朋友来到军校向他提出分手，原因似乎就是她难以接受他们父子俩过于亲密的关系。阿列克谢常常做噩梦，醒来后他问母亲在哪里，父亲却无言以对。父亲表示，外地有一份更加高薪的工作等着他，但是父子二人谁也离不开谁。

　　充满生命情趣的教师内田百闲毅然辞去大学教书职务，从事写作工作。六十一岁开始，学生每年都为他筹备生日大会，每年学生都开玩笑问道：「你准备好没有呀？」(Mahda-kai) 他一口气饮尽为他而设的大杯啤酒，之后总是说一句：「还没呀！」(Madadayo) …… 　　1943年，百闲先生从大学退职后呆在家中一心从事写作。这个家“小偷很容易进来”，是以房租便宜，聚集了高山、甘木、桐山、泽村等弟子。澡堂的门是半开的，立着“小偷入口”的牌子，还有“小偷通道”，“小偷休息室”里甚至摆放了烟灰盆。每一个小偷看到了都会大吃一惊。空袭中这座房子被毁，百闲先生和夫人搬进了一个只有三铺席大小的门房，终日与猫为伍，过着悠然自在的生活。战后，弟子们创立了“摩阿陀会”。“摩阿陀会”是“好了吗？还没有呐”的谐音。弟子们每年都为先生的生日召开大会，在第17届会上，头发花白的先生这样问弟子们：“人生中最重要的是什么？”那天晚上，先生做了一个梦，好些孩子们在朝他呼唤：“好了吗？”