Two village boys - brothers Semyon and Pavel - serve a Moscow merchant-shopkeeper. They face harsh exploitation and hard forced labor. The brothers' life paths diverge. Unable to withstand the merchant's bullying, Pavel goes to the factory, becomes a worker, and later a professional revolutionary....
The Great Russian scientist, famous politician and poet M.Lomonosov is severely ill. Understanding that there is not much time left for him to live, he decides to visit his beloved small native town. Taking a coach, he heads for the motherland of his ancestors. A shaky road raises thoughts and...
1920s. The Krestyanskaya Pravda correspondent comes to the village where was an attempt on the young selkor. He learns about the gang of kulak members, led by the deputy chairman of the village council.
A recognized mathematician proves to the plant management that the new pipe rolling mill needs to be stopped and improved. The conflict ruins his daughter’s personal life when she is abandoned by her fiancé, the head of a pipe-rolling shop, a careerist and a coward. Yielding to the persuasion of...
Set in the Soviet Union in the 70's. The plot is based on real industrial conflicts in the life of the country's largest metallurgical plant, where there are many acute problems. Modernization of Soviet metallurgical industry causes a clash between old style Communist bosses and the new generation...
Mikhail Ulyanov is the Bergmanesque protagonist of the Russian Private Life. A government-appointed factory executive, Ulyanov is reduced to quivering confusion when he is dismissed. Recovering from this blow, he decides to review and realign his life. In so doing, he discovers that there's plenty...
Returning to an empty apartment after work, Kurochkin remembers that today is his birthday. Pyotr Ivanovich pours wine into glasses and remembers his youth, the friends with whom he fought, his wife who could not get along with him, his daughter.
