Nikolai Dovzhenko

The film is set in the early XX century. Three friends of the working of the Ural village - Yegor, Petka and Stickleback - zaimeli enemies from across the street, which Verkhovod Senka Kozhin, a bold and desperate man, causing an obvious sympathy at first.

An American photographer, eagerly anticipating a sensational suicide on a New York skyscraper, was fortunate to receive a report about the hundredth suicide, but whom would be the hundredth and one?

A group of young people comes to a Siberian construction site. They form a brigade, one of their tasks being cutting of a track for a power line. Different reasons made these people go to taiga and become pathfinders. One of them, a former taxi-driver Leonid (A.Kuznetsov) went to earn lots of money, Rimma (A.Zavialova) from the undivided love, the yesterdays schoolboy Constantine to find romantic appeal and adventures, and Vladimir (N.Dovzhenko) attempting to escape his shadowy past. Far away from the city fuss, in severe labor conditions and unsettled way of life, relations of these absolutely unknown to each other people gradually resume the normal course. Here many of them experience revaluation of values, others even find their love.

Mai 1945. En périphérie des gens ordinaires Prague ont accueilli les soldats soviétiques libérateurs avec des larmes de joie dans ses yeux. Dans les premiers jours d'une personne calme se souvient tristement la vie avant la guerre; quelqu'un rencontre inopinément son amour; quelqu'un revient de les chambres de torture de l'ennemi, avec l'espoir de regarder vers l'avenir; et quelqu'un, réensemencement du réservoir dans le tramway tchèque, se souvient avec émotion son motorman artisanale ...

Story of two brothers, stayed in different parts of Korea. Elder one works on recovery of electric plant. Younger brother comes back to native town with sabotage task.

A Moscow group of Komsomol members arrives on the virgin lands, in the Kazakh steppes, and immediately faces bureaucracy and carelessness. Someone flees the state farm for more reliable earnings, and someone simply does not want to work. But a new energetic director appears — and real life begins...

A young boy from Prague is trying to find a Soviet soldier from the old 1945 picture.