Mikhail is fascinated by the ideas of the Decembrists about a Russia free from the tyranny of the Tsar. After graduating from military school, he goes abroad. Upon returning to Russia, a tragic life awaits him.
A journalism student Kostik is travelling, by river steamer, to the place of his internship in the village of Lower Lazureny, but by mistake he goes ashore at Upper Lazureny. While Kostika is trying to get out of the village and get to his destination, wonderful adventures happen.
Immediately after the war, veteran Vasile Karuntu came to the machine-building plant where Ion worked, who soon became a foreman. They both fell in love with Maria, but she married Vasile. With Maria, he created a family, raised four children, three of whom are adopted orphans. And now, many years...
A difficult historical period in the life of the Moldovan people, who fought in the 1930s against the yoke of royal Romania and for reunification with the Soviet Union.
Bessarabia on the eve of World War II... Soldier Ștefan Brebu is being taken to trial in a prison car as a witness. The escorts were ordered to shoot him on the way "at attempt to escape." A soldier can give testimony in court that is undesirable for the authorities: it was not communists who were...
Four short stories tell about the inhabitants of the Moldovan village of Redu Mare. Stefan, a former front-line cowman, returned from the army and found unpleasant changes for himself. His beloved girlfriend got married... Originally from Redu Mare, the hero of the second novel is the power...
A Moldovan village in the late forties. Andrei Brume, a Komsomol member, university student and MGB lieutenant, is on a mission to fight a criminal gang. The situation is extremely dramatic. On the one hand, there are night raids by Stratan's gang, on the other - endless official extortion,...
About the romantic youth of the legendary commander, hero of the Civil War G.I.Kotovsky (1881-1925). An inexperienced fighter against landlord arbitrariness becomes a professional revolutionary under the influence of revolutionary events in Russia.
The film reproduces the events of the summer of 1921, when Kotovsky, at the head of a separate cavalry brigade, completed the defeat of the Antonov counterrevolutionary rebellion in the Tambov region, destroying Matyukhin's gang.
Summer of 1940. The architect returns from Bucharest to his native Bessarabia with a firm desire to live outside politics. However, life forces him to make a choice.
Fascinated by the idea of creating an industrial inter-collective farm garden, scientist Andrei Barbu interrupts his work at the institute and moves to the district...
The plot is based on the creation of an illegal Marxist printing house in Chisinau in 1901, which reprinted the newspaper Iskra and other underground literature.
One can achieve a free life only in an irreconcilable struggle against the class enemy. With this slogan, after being wounded, Mikhail returns from the civil war to one of the Moldovan villages, creates a Council of the Poor and makes the first decision — to plow the landlords' lands... The film...
