Episode 1
First Love
1971-10-01 • 25 min
Vladimir, the teenage son of a local rich man, falls madly in love with his new neighbor's daughter Zina competing for her affections along with a host of her other suitors.
TV season
1971-10-01
Episode 1
1971-10-01 • 25 min
Vladimir, the teenage son of a local rich man, falls madly in love with his new neighbor's daughter Zina competing for her affections along with a host of her other suitors.
Episode 2
1971-10-08 • 25 min
A stranger comes to town with a bag full of gold and a test for everyone.
Episode 3
1971-10-15 • 25 min
A man is about to be executed by the Inquisition. Is hope enough to save him?
Episode 4
1971-10-22 • 25 min
A young Corsican boy defies local customs and dishonors his family when he turns in a bandit to police.
Episode 5
1971-10-29 • 25 min
Intertwines multiple stories, including a framing device about a young man named Runevsky, and explores themes of obsession, the supernatural, and the line between reality and imagination.
Episode 6
1971-11-05 • 25 min
A psychological character study revolving around Luchkov, an aggressive, manipulative former military officer who lives for duels and social domination.
Episode 7
1971-11-12 • 25 min
A failed actress wants to go back to her husband, who has fallen into alcoholism.
Episode 8
1971-11-19 • 25 min
A narrator visits a French mental asylum where the 'soothing system' of patient-led care has been overthrown by a new, more severe method, only for the narrator to discover the 'doctors' are actually the patients, and the 'keepers' are those locked away, tarred and feathered.
Episode 9
1971-11-26 • 25 min
Follows the journey of a cursed, valuable diamond as it passes through the hands of various characters, revealing their greed, folly, and the dark allure of wealth. The narrative links these tales through the diamond's movement from London to Paris, exploring themes of crime, deception, and morality.
Episode 10
1971-12-03 • 25 min
A government official's nose leaves his face and develops a life of its own.
Episode 11
1971-12-10 • 25 min
A nameless man insists on his sanity while confessing to murdering an old man because of his 'vulture-like' eye.
Episode 12
1971-12-17 • 25 min
A man murders an antique dealer on Christmas Day to steal from him, only to be tormented by his own conscience, personified by a mysterious visitor who may be the Devil, forcing him to confront his evil and ultimately choose confession over further sin.
Episode 13
1971-12-24 • 25 min
Reclusive, cultured lawyer Mr Tomasz's solitary life is transformed by a blind orphan girl who moves in next door and her barrel organ, which he initially despises but comes to cherish as a source of joy and connection, ultimately leading him to help her.
Episode 14
1971-12-31 • 25 min
A young American couple inherits an English castle, only to find that it is haunted by the spirit of a disgraced ancestor, doomed to stay on the estate because of his cowardice. The only way he can escape is if one of his descendants performs an heroic act, something he intends to get the husband to do.
Episode 15
1972-01-07 • 25 min
From Giovanni Boccaccio's 'The Decameron No. 40.'
Episode 16
1972-01-14 • 25 min
From Ambrose Bierce's 'A Matter of Conscience.'
Episode 17
1972-01-21 • 25 min
From Fyodor Dostoevsky's 'Another Man's Wife and a Husband Under the Bed.'
Episode 18
1972-01-28 • 25 min
From Stefan Zeromski's 'Pavoncello.'
Episode 19
1972-02-04 • 25 min
From Ivan Turgenev's 'The Song of Triumphant Love.'
Episode 20
1972-02-11 • 25 min
From Alexander Pushkin's 'The Postmaster.'
Episode 21
1972-02-18 • 25 min
From William Wilkie Collins' 'A Terribly Strange Bed.'
Episode 22
1972-02-25 • 25 min
From Mikhail Lermontov's 'The Fatalist.'
Episode 23
1972-03-03 • 25 min
From Alexandre Dumas 'The Resurrection of the Offland.'
Episode 24
1972-03-10 • 25 min
From Ambrose Bierce's 'The Boarded Window.'