Naidan Gendunova

Le film dépeint les réactions des habitants lors de l'organisation de l'évacuation du village de Matiora sur l'île du même nom qui doit être submergée par la mise en eau d'un barrage sur l'Angara.

Young scientist is going to taiga for his experiments but meets poachers on the way.

This film is based on the classic novel of the same name by writer Ivan Franko, one of the most famous figures of Ukrainian literature. It is set during the 1200s and the invasion of the medieval Ukrainian-Russian state of Rus' by Chengis Khan's Golden Horde. Due to its having been produced during the Soviet era, the story's aspect of class-conflict between the "heroic" peasantry and the "decadent" noble particularly emphasized here.

A group of people setting out to find a previously assumed land and upon reaching it, not knowing how to deal with the customs of the place, have to deal with all the consequences.