At the heart of the picture is a common legend about the last days of Emperor Alexander the First Blessed.

On the night of June 22, 1941, a fire breaks out on a German passenger ship. The Soviet tanker "Caspian" comes to its aid - and navigator Nikolai Borshch rescues a German girl, being severely injured in the process. Later, however, the Germans capture the "Caspian" and force it to go to Hamburg...

A drama from the life of two generations of a big family from Leningrad. Loosely based on a novel by Yuriy Nagibin.

1992 film by Igor Talankin