Matvey Pavlikov

A Soviet comedy about a charming womanizer.

The story of the Bolshevik revolution through the eyes of a peasant who, as a soldier, gets caught up in the proceedings under the tutelage of Lenin.

1773. The film tells the story of one of the most devastating events in the history of the Russian Empire—the Cossack uprising led by Emelyan Pugachev, which escalated into a civil war for the imperial throne, with Pugachev proclaiming himself Peter III.

During the Russian Civil War, orphan Fyodor (Fedka) Trofimov, whose father was killed by Whites, is adopted by a Red cavalry unit.