Reminiscing the 1917 Russian October Revolution, a time when the films' director was 14 years old.

January 1917. The workers and peasants of Russia, hunted by the tsarist government in the trenches, forced to defend alien interests of the king, the landowners and exploiters-capitalists. Bolshevik worker Yakov Orel, selflessly performing party mission, said the soldiers the truth about war, about revolution, about what the overthrow of the autocracy does not mean the liberation of the workers from the yoke of landlords and capitalists exploitation. For example, one regiment of the film reflects the events that took place in the whole of the Russian army between February and October 1917.

Agronomist Valya Chernysheva fell in love with the new chief agronomist of the MTS Savitsky, a widower with two small daughters. During the illness of one of the daughters, whom Valya was nursing, he realized that she had become a close person for him. But the girl left to work in another distant collective farm.

The film covers the events of 1896-1905 - from the first revolutionary gatherings to the armed Moscow uprising of workers at Krasnaya Presnya, later called Bloody Sunday. St. Petersburg students Alexander Mikhailov and Yevgeny Svetlov and a peasant girl Varvara Postnikova arrive in Moscow and follow the complicated path of underground revolutionaries.

Young Soviet farm workers are treated to a weekend in Moscow visiting the Bolshoi theater, in gratitude for which they invite the artists who've befriended them to visit their farm and be entertained by performances of their own.

Russian filmmaker Vera Stroyeva specialized in cinematic adaptations of famous operas. One of the most successful of these was her 1955 film version of Mussorgsky and Pushkin's Boris Godunov. Stroyeva's adaptation deftly streamlines the story of a Russian czar whose life is placed in jeopardy by a pretender to his throne. A. Pirogov sings the title role, while G. Nellep provides vocal and visual menace as the "False Dmitri". The use of a color process known as Magicolor adds just the right touch of theatrical artificiality to the pomp-and-splendor proceedings.

穆索尔斯基经典歌剧的电影版。 歌剧将发生在俄国历史上的两次射击军叛乱合并在一起叙述。彼得大帝登基后，推行西化改革，成立了新式的变容近卫军团。而旧式的射击军对此感到不满，在彼得大帝的姐姐索菲亚公主的支持下，射击军领袖霍凡斯基父子、自由西化派戈利岑公爵和旧仪礼派精神领袖多西非率领三支意见完全相左的队伍，准备联合起来推翻彼得，但大贵族沙克洛维德伊却将他们的密谋告诉了彼得大帝。彼得大帝雷厉风行镇压叛乱，老霍凡斯基被杀，戈利岑公爵被流放，走投无路的旧仪礼派教徒最终选择在教堂中自焚殉教。