Boris Yurtsev

En 1912, dans l'Empire russe, les ouvriers d'une usine sont poussés à bout par des conditions de travail éreintantes, et des espions choisis parmi le lumpenprolétariat sont chargés de dénicher les meneurs syndicalistes. Un ouvrier est accusé à tort d'avoir volé un micromètre. Sous la pression, il se pend. Ses collègues décident de se mettre en grève, mais celle-ci sera réprimée de manière sanglante par l'armée tsariste.

In a small Tatar village during the traditional holiday of the beginning of plowing, monks appear accompanied by soldiers. Trying to convert the local population to Orthodoxy by force, the monks and soldiers meet a tough rebuff from the locals. The wife of the peasant Bulat dies, and his son Asfan is taken away in an unknown direction.

Fred, a young British sailor who accidentually finds himself in the USSR and after a number of comic adventures he, attracted by Soviet youth enthusiazm, goes to take part in Dneprostroy (building of Dnepr power station).

During the Russian Civil War, pilot Sergey Sedov engages in battle with the Black Cat enemy fighter, controlled by the famous pilot Baru. In the battle, Sedov wounded Baru, but Sedov's plane fell apart in the air. Sedov was only miraculously saved. A few years later, Sedov and Baru meet in international competitions in Tehran. Baru are to defend the honor of a French company, Sedov and his student Ivanov - the honor of their country. In the end, the defeated Baru can only express hope of a rematch during a new meeting with Sedov in a future war. The film has not survived.