2071 year. Galactic wars destroyed the moon and changed the climate on Earth. Moscow is in the rainforests, and New York is covered in ice. A huge alien ship rises above Moscow - it is a stadium where spectacular intergalactic spaceball competitions are held - a game that combines sports and gladiatorial fights. The matches are monitored by the whole galaxy. Only athletes can play spaceball. That is what they call those who are endowed with extraordinary abilities and can manage them. Cosmobol is loved by everyone except Anton, the most ordinary guy who just wants to find work to help his family. But once supernormal abilities are discovered in him, and they are accepted into the national team. Now he is a spaceball player. Anton still does not suspect what role is destined for him in this match, and that the final game will be a battle for Earth.
Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov plans to buy the titles to “dead souls” and use them as collateral to obtain a large loan. He comes to a small provincial town and begins to proposition the local landowners. These landowners are revealed to be so petty and avaricious that not even Chichikov’s amazing offer can be worked to his advantage on them. Some stall, some refuse for no obvious reasons, some promise and then renege, and others want “in on the deal.” In the end, Chichikov, having concluded that the landowners are a hopeless lot, leaves for other regions.
Dan'ka's and Ksanka's childhood in the village has been brutally ended when their father was killed by the White Guard officer in front of their eyes. Seeking revenge they join forces with an intellectual from the city Valerka and jipsy Yashka, but before they get close to their enemy they have to help their village and advancing Red Army.
Two parents put their child in his crib for the night and leave the room. The child starts crying, and the Cat comes into the room to keep him company. The child grabs her tail, and the Cat angrily reminds him that they agreed a thousand years ago that he would not do that. Upon seeing that the child doesn't remember, the Cat sighs and decides to tell him the story from the beginning. The story starts when the planet was young and life on Earth is starting with dinosaurs.
Ivan Mirosnikov, a cheeky young man in the Gorbachev era, is trying to figure out what to do with his life (he's not in college, and the 2-year mandatory military service is looming large ahead of him). Meanwhile, he lives with his divorced mother, and works as a courier at a Russian newspaper. Through his job, he meets patronizing Professor Kuznetzov and his rebellious daughter Katya. To annoy the professor, Ivan claims to have an affair with Katya. To his surprise, Katya backs his story up.
A rough factory worker of a distant, rural Russian town becomes a national celebrity when it is discovered that his mouth bears 33 teeth. He is brought to Moscow, where he discovers a new world for him. Suddenly it becomes known that he with his 33rd tooth can be a descendant of Martians and he is selected for a dangerous space mission.
This melodrama revolves around the post-war meeting reunion an intelligent front-line officer, now happily married, and a woman street vendor. This encounter reawakens in them submerged feelings of gratitude and tenderness as the officer recalls how they met during the war and what she used to mean to him. Now he learns that she is alone with a small daughter, the girl's father having been killed at the front.