Lyudmila Khmelnitskaya

Follows the love between journalist Anna Knyazeva and Nikolai Malyshev, a surgeon at one of the city hospitals.

This late 60s Russian films is set in 1920, just 3 years after the October revolution. Folks had the choice between red and white, revolution and contra revolution. In that torn-apart-time, one man, the comedian Volodya, tries to mediate, not between different ideologies, but social life and art. While others just want to wash away their gloom, he reflects on the everyday sorrows and the role of art in that time of changes.

Peace and prosperity reign in the family of engineer Sergei Shubin. But meeting with Marina changes everything. It seems to Sergei that true love has come to him, and he decides to start a new family. Time passes, but neither Sergei nor Marina feel happy...