Nikolai Palnikov

A Soviet film about construction workers.

A Black American worker travels to the USSR and experiences the racial solidarity of Soviet life.

The end of the 1920s. Lumbermen of small American village begin a strike. The strike committee included communists, the Smith brothers and the black lumberjack Murray. The fascist Dan dismisses rumors about a affair between Murray and a white girl, Gladys, the sister of the Smith brothers…

In October 1917, Warrant Officer Shakhov sided with the revolution.Shakhov is disturbed by the thought that once, during the imperialist war, he was arrested for participating in a revolutionary circle and, during interrogation, while in a semi-conscious state, revealed the name of his comrade and teacher, the revolutionary Rayevsky. This offense of Shakhov's was exposed. The Revolutionary Tribunal sentences Shakhov to death. At the last moment, he is saved by Raevsky, who by then had become a significant party figure named Turbin, who tells the court about Shakhov and the circumstances in which he unknowingly became a traitor. The tribunal acquits Shakhov. Based on the novel “Nine Tenths of Fate“ by Veniamin Kaverin.

Tram conductor Nadya Savitskaya went to study for tram driver courses. Her boss believes that women are not capable of such work and will only delay traffic. However, on her very first flight, Nadya Savitskaya prevents an accident and saves lives. The film was shot as part of a program to encourage women to study male professions, because in Soviet Union the rights of women and men were equalized: now they could do the same work and receive the same salary for it.

Propaganda film on the participation of Komsomol members in the restoration of the coal industry of Donbas.