Yakov Yavno

Old, rich Jew Mendel Krik falls in love with the beautiful Marusya. But their sons Levka and Bena don't share their dreams... Revolution has come.

A young Jewish-American female singer is trapped in the USSR behind the enemy lines during the WWII...

The film tells the story of the difficult fate of the Jewish people in modern history, analyzing events from the point of view of the greatest Jewish writer of the 19th century, Sholem Aleichem.