Vasili Yaroslavtsev

The commander of the cruiser Zarya, nobleman Bersenev, sympathizes with the Bolsheviks, encouraged in part by Artem Godun, chairman of the ship’s committee. His eldest daughter, Tatyana, follows in her father’s footsteps. Her husband, von Staube, is involved in a counter-revolutionary conspiracy.

A bold study on the dangers of prostitution in the Soviet Union in the 1920s. It's sort of dramatic fiction that tells the story of Lyuba, which after irremediable events, loses his honor, being obliged to exercise the oldest profession in the world to survive. She hopes for better days and a new opportunity. The film also shows us the story of two other women who also need hope.

In a small Tatar village during the traditional holiday of the beginning of plowing, monks appear accompanied by soldiers. Trying to convert the local population to Orthodoxy by force, the monks and soldiers meet a tough rebuff from the locals. The wife of the peasant Bulat dies, and his son Asfan is taken away in an unknown direction.

The end of the 1920s. Polish Diet a bill discusses the War Ministry to increase the production of weapons and oil for the needs of the army. Occur violent clashes between right-wing forces and the Communist faction, opposed the war with the USSR. The leader of the Social Democrats Staszewski asks to project that a heavy burden will fall on the budget for improvements to the commission. At this time, in oilfield Bohuslav strike, caused by hard labor working conditions, starvation wages and anti-Soviet policy of the government.

A machinist on a Navy ship has two sons, both bolcheviks. When the revolution comes the Tsarist police captures the machinist to put pressure on his sons.