Bogdan Kozak

The prototype of the hero of the film - Soviet Ukrainian writer Yaroslav Galan, who devoted the last years of his life to exposing the Greek Catholic Church and the Ukrainian nationalists.

The Soviet propagnda film follows young people from Ukrainian Kamianets-Podilskyi during the revolutionary battles for Soviet power, spanning from pre-revolutionary times to the 1930s. It depicts their experiences in a gymnasium, labour school, cadet dormitory, and their involvement in conflicts against Petliura’s forces and German interventionists, highlighting divisions by social status and political views. It consists of three parts: "Commissar Sergushin" (episodes 1-3); "The Haunted House" (episodes 4-5); "The City by the Sea" (episodes 6-7).

A love story between two people whose youth unfolded during the turbulent early years of the century, when Europe and Russia were practically swelling with revolution.