Balda at the priest worked, served him well, performed all his duties, and even worked with interest - a miracle, not an employee!

And he took the payment - the smallest, and ate one porridge.

Why tried hard, worked hard? To the priest to teach and click to him to push for that stingy was pop and too fussy? Yes, no, the priest's daughter liked Balde, so he decided to marry! Such a worker is always welcome, taken into the house, a wedding was played.

And if anyone does not understand or Pushkin's words are already painful to the modern wit, then the Cat Scientist, Baba Yaga, Goblin and Koschey the Immortal will explain everything - even what no one could guess, they will add!

"Let the person be no more than the eye of an ant - but the personality is a person! So I think! "

The Horton elephant is an example of honesty and decency, from someone, and it's not a shame to learn from him! It does not matter which creature is big, small or very tiny, the elephant Horton treats everyone with the greatest respect. It is a person, even a tiny one. He will not let him exterminate the city, even if this city is the size of a fuzz!

And if an elephant had to sit out an egg, he would not abandon the chick for anything in the world. And cold and hunger are not terrible to him, because the main thing is not to let the egg freeze, from there the whole person will soon hatched! And it turned out that a slogan came out of the egg - after all, his elephant was hatching! Whatever you say, and this was a worthy retribution for his labors - the elephant Horton was happy when he saw the toddler!

How hard loneliness ... Especially in old age.

But there is a hope to meet love. Only for her sake it is worth living further.

The old Jew lives in America, on a land that never became his own. He is already more than eighty, nothing pleases him. The only grandson to him is indifferent.

He is attached to his friend, who is about to leave for Israel with his family. Then the old man will be all alone. It will be a whole day watching TV.

A chance meeting with a neighbor changed his life. This lonely emigrant can suddenly begin to dance or laugh. Such as she did not meet an old man!

She recently buried her husband and misses him very much. He often tells his neighbor how they lived together with him. Yes, she is a little strange, but she likes the old man. And she casts eloquent glances at him ...

The old man invites his neighbor to dinner. He will tell her about his childhood in Poland, about how difficult it was to make big money in the US. How warm and nice he is next to a sympathetic and pretty lady!

He is already starting to think about a possible marriage. Why wait? Life is so short!

But life is unpredictable.

Do you want to make God laugh? Tell him about your plans.

Her talent is to drive men mad.

Of course, not the only one. A great actress. A real diamond on the stage.

But will it also be able to brightly shine, faced with mean people?

How interesting to look at the people of the theater outside the scene! They take off their masks and show their faces. Or do they always play like on stage?

It's hard to figure out where the joy is, but where the mountain is, where the theatrical passions are, and where the real ones are.

Young, talented, but inexperienced actress hopes for a successful career in the theater.

It's not good enough to be an actress to play well on stage. The theatrical world dictates its rules - one must be more supportive of some members of society, a little more compliant, then there will be major roles. An actor, after all, is a public profession?

The girl did not see any other way than to go to the keepers. She left to conquer the capital. Well, she is not the first, not the last.

Talent can be profitable to sell.

Can a great actor become a powerful ruler?

The Crown Prince invited four famous Venetian comedians to visit his palace. Among them is the charming Colombina, the wise Pantheleone, the mischievous Harlequin and the solid Scapino.

They wear their usual masks. Talented actors are used to entertain aristocrats.

But the litsedeys did not even suspect that the snake was in the ball.

In the heat of the quarrel over Colombina Harlequin kills the son of the king.

Could he pretend to be a prince? Will his blind mother bless the prince? The mother's heart should not deceive her.

Harlequin craves power. But the country is governed by the King's uncle. He does not need a competitor, he is used to seeing on the throne a puppet.

As a former actor to cope with enemies?

Exquisite performance with magnificent costumes and decorations. The game of actors is above all praise.

"The king himself does not rule, but the power of his name reigns ..."

Political theater. Can such a phenomenon exist? Perhaps it is indispensable to exist.

Especially when the main "policy" is in the mutual relations of the heroes, in their views on the world, in their life position, which is formed into understanding, anticipation, insight.

For them, the world is a ship sailing from Mexico to Germany. Here they are safe, here they are not trapped by the horrors of the world with its new realities. Here you can just live, for a brief moment to find your happiness.

Different ages, nationalities, even political convictions - all this for them - is only an occasion for communication. The reason for the search for mutual understanding and ...

But this "and" does not happen. Maybe because the slightly blurred images of the characters create that unique atmosphere that is possible. When people, running away from something or being on their way to their "end", seem to be trying to get rid of sad thoughts, but .. it does not work.

And now, literally around them is the oppressive feeling of stickiness and inevitable death in a country where fascism has defeated.

But who is to blame for this, maybe they themselves? Perhaps, their passivity in relation to life brings them to this disastrous line?

It's up to you to decide, well, for now, the ship is on the road.

Hope dies last…

A terrible devilry can happen in the Russian outback. At first glance - an ordinary village, an ordinary inn. Few of the merchants did not stop here to rest and chat with the beautiful housewife.

Everyone is welcome to the Vakula Bessoudny Inn. Here you will be fed, here you will be given a drink, here you will be wrapped up to the last thread. This place is ... lively.

But the owner is not what he claims to be. Do not be deceived at the expense of his cordiality and hospitality.

The owner of the establishment is a real werewolf. In the afternoon - hospitable host, at night - a highwayman from a big road.

He does not lose his night hours and his wife, "a beautiful woman for thirty years". What does she have to lose with a sixty-year old? The husband at the door - she immediately takes in her young lover.

Handsome, boyar and landowner likes and the sister of a rogue-innkeeper. Seduced all with his magnificent mustache a retired cavalryman.

How to unravel this family-love ball of jealousy, jealousy and greed?

Acute psychology of family relations against the backdrop of criminal history.

Gudezh, robbery, gulb, firing.

What conscience? What pride? These words are forgotten in this lost place at the crossroads.

The play of Martin McDonagh is not easy to perceive: it has a lot of black humor and gloomy intonations. The second Tarantino, McDonagh introduces the viewer into a world where cruelty and style coexist with each other, creating a space in which the old philosophical problems sound new. Where to seek justice for someone who was once undeservedly offended? Is it worth pursuing what is lost in the distant past? How many evils come from the once perfect evil?

Carmichael was stripped of his hand in an extremely cruel manner: thrown under the train. For what? Just because. Many years have passed since then, but the bitterness of loss (what it's like to live a crippled life all my life!) And the desire to regain my hand at any cost is still alive in the hero. But it is impossible - to find a new hand in place of the old one! What does Carmichael hope?

Together - more fun! And the rain is afraid to be more cheerful, and the echoes to be called out, and the secret language to invent ...

And it's impossible to divide singly and singly into singles, it's absolutely necessary to have a comrade there!

In general, without a friend anywhere. Therefore, the kitten Gav and the puppy made friends. Now they go to visit each other and walk together.

Where it became more interesting to live! It is necessary, say, a puppy for a cutlet to hide. Then the kitten will help him: hide it in the stomach, and deal with the end. No one will find a cutlet anymore, no one will take it!

Love, debauchery, revenge and death - a contemporary of Shakespeare John Ford filled his tragedy with all possible kinds of intrigues, from shocking to melodramatic.

Soranzo married Anabella, but found that she was ... pregnant! Who is the father of the child?

The truth may be much more unexpected than one would expect ...

What will Soranzo do? He feels insulted, humiliated, crushed, but not the only one in this story who cherishes dreams of revenge.

Is Anabella ready for death? Does she care about death? ..

There are many questions, but the answers are sad and terrible ... "What a pity that she is a slut" - so named his tragedy John Ford. In the Theater of Novel Viktyuk the production was called "Wings from the ashes" - the name is more romantic and poetic, but also sad: on wings from the ashes you will not take off. "What a pity".

"O jealousy, how you dig into your heart!"

Alexander the Great fell in love with a beautiful hetaer named Thais. He considers her to be like Aphrodite, the goddess of love.

All men, including the philosopher Aristotle, the teacher of Alexander, are crazy about her.

Beauty lives in Athens, where the great commander rests after the victorious war.

As a wise strategist, Alexander prepares in advance for war with the Persian king Darius. The commander knows that it is inevitable, and seeks to delay its beginning.

He dreams a strange dream in which he is killed by an unknown girl.

Wise Thais thinks little about the fans. She used to dominate them. It is more important for her not to allow another war.

She decided to talk about this with Darius. He must heed her pleas. Who needs new battles, new victims?

But evil tongues told Alexander about the meeting between Thais and his enemy.

Alexander is beside himself with jealousy. For the sake of Thais, he left his wife!

He orders the assistant to find out if Thais has changed him. If he is deceived, she is in danger of dying.

Blood will flow again. Alexander and Darius are entering a new war.

"Women know how fragile life is, how death is close, and men dream of immortality and kill endlessly on every occasion."

"There is no one in the house, but all the seats are occupied!"

Maid Anna is in a panic. She promised to go to relatives, but stayed in the house of her masters. Money pity on the road.

My husband had to go on a business trip, but returned to the house with his mistress. Only this fat cow was not enough here! Such a respectable gentleman.

And the wife is still a thing! Not only that, with her hysterics, she got her husband, she also got dragged home with a young lover. But she promised to visit her parents!

What now Anna with them to do with all? And this is what they call a muddle! I'd look at myself ... It's not going to work out all right.

They can not be found! It requires a general's strategy and tactics of the marshal, so that these two pairs of doves accidentally do not bump into each other.

The humorously comical sitcom of the world-famous Mark Camoletti.

"It happens that servants of servants migrate to the king".