1973年的第四次中东战争中，一架携带着核武器的以色列战机在叙利亚被击毁，核弹随之便被时间和风沙掩埋。然而29年后，核弹却被一对平民夫妇掘起，并廉价变卖给军火商，最后兜售给了恐怖分子，而这些恐怖分子正在策划一场在美国繁华集会地点的核爆，并将其嫁祸给俄罗斯，意在挑起新一轮世界大战。年轻警觉的CIA情报分析师杰克·瑞恩（本·阿弗莱克 Ben Affleck 饰）在与俄罗斯新任总统会面时，隐约感到事有蹊跷，并通过眼线很快洞察了恐怖分子的惊天阴谋。然而瑞恩的判断却未能得到局里的重视，在一筹莫展之际，他得到了资深睿智的老分析顾问威廉·卡伯特（摩根·弗里曼 Morgan Freeman 饰）的信任与合作，然而仅凭他们二人之力，能否赶在恐怖分子下手前找到核弹，阻止这一毁灭性的悲剧发生呢？
本片改编自美国军事作家汤姆·克兰西的同名小说。

这是一部苏联新浪潮电影。它是理想主义和现实主义的独特融合，深受安东尼奥尼的影响，据我所知，在苏联电影界再也没有出现过或尝试过这样的作品。这部几乎没有情节的影片讲述了一对年轻未婚夫妇的交往和最终分手的故事，以一系列精细观察的情节来讲述，这些情节在一起几乎构成了一部关于那个时代和那个地方的百科全书。在其他方面，它是对一个不再存在的、有些梦幻般的城市的无价的描绘。

This is a collection of five satyrical short films, including little intermision talk:
1) "Kak Sozdavalsya Robinzon" (How Robinson was Created) - writer is comissioned to make soviet version of Robinson Cruzoe;
2) "Istoriya s Pirozhkami" (Incident with Pastries) - customer has problems paying for pastries, because he has eaten them before getting to the counter;
3) "Inostrantsy" (Foreigners) - about russian people who want to be more like western people;
4) "Priyatnogo Appetita" (Bon Appetit) - one episode for restaurant life;
5) "Pyos Baros i Neobchainy Kross" (Barbos the hound and Unusual Cross-country Race) - first appearance of later famous Morgunov/Nikulin/Vitsin trio in tale about fishing with dinamite instead of fishing rods

该片摄制于1989年，前苏联正处于新旧意识交替阶段，社会发展处于十字路口，尤其是个体合作社蓬勃兴起，影片多次展现街上各种各样，千姿态百态的“合作社”面貌，而影片主人公吉马正是在这种氛围下提出开办“私人侦探社”的申请，从市议员不批准到批准，我们似乎看到了“官僚”机构的塑影，如果说影片对这一场景的处理采用了漫画式的手法，那么当吉马侦探所挂牌，民警局上校到访，却充满着隐喻的色彩，他来无踪去无影，进门时连挂在门顶上的铃都不响，我们仿佛看到的是一个“幽灵”，这无疑象征着整个社会体制在社会发展变化中显得过时和不适应。其实从影片所构成的情节中我们则能明显地感到这一点。“民办”和“官办”的竞争较量，充满着鲜明的对比。那位上校是一个十足的“官僚”化身，在对绑架案的追查中只相信“专家说的不会错”而从不自己动脑筋，而吉马却冒着生命危险进行侦查。虽然，这种对比显得过于“标签”化，但这和整个影片所弥漫着的夸张、漫画、幽默、讽刺式的风格浑然一体，许多忍俊不禁的细节，如：“安适”厕所的服务、吉马几次和女记者邂逅相遇、议员们的表决等等都令我们感到一个变革的社会中人们骚动的心态以及社会变革的潜在基因……

新年前夕，住在莫斯科的外科医生热尼亚和他的朋友们按照传统，除夕之夜去公共浴池洗澡，为的是洗去晦气，干净地迎新年。朋友们一时兴起喝得酩酊大醉，最后把不该去列宁格勒的热尼亚，送上了飞往列宁格勒的飞机。走出机场，出租车司机把热尼亚送到同一街名同一门牌的大楼前，热尼亚用钥匙打开同一号住宅的房门，里面又是同样的家具。热尼亚在那里戏剧性地结识了美丽的娜佳，并爱上了她。

Six years after Michail Gorbachev set the Soviet Union on the path to democracy and economic reform, the nation is torn apart by a three day coup that changes the future of the Soviet Union forever. On the eve of these tumultuous events, Mikhail and Dalia arrive in Moscow to be married. She's Lithuanian. He's Russian, the son of Vladimir, a conservative army general. During the next three days, the lives of the young couple are profoundly affected by a war being fought on several fronts: at the Russian Parliament, where Mikhail must decide to take a stand and join Dalia at the barricades, and at home, where he must oppose his father who is too firmly entrenched in the Soviet system to accept either his son's marriage to a Lithuanian or the irreversible impact of glasnost on Russia. With the triumph of the pro-democracy forces and Mikhail's decision to make a stand with his generation, their confrontation is inevitable.

Former criminal investigator, Major Korenev, nicknamed Fox is released from prison. He has been detained there as a result of planted incriminating evidence of unlawful investigation techniques. Setting accounts with Shaman - a big criminal boss, who ordered the evidence planted and also with his former colleagues was not a part of Korenev's agenda. As he returns to Moscow he finds a new world ruled by underworld bosses, criminal clans fighting each other and utter chaos on the desperately keeping appearances streets of Russian capital. Facing death of his friends, Major Korenev decides to re-install law and order using some unorthodox methods that are only relevant in 21st century Russia.