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- A soldier returns to Kyiv after surviving a train crash and encounters clashes between nationalists and collectivists.
- An old Ukrainian man protects and searches for a legendary treasure in the midst of political upheavals.
- The true murder of the Soviet diplomat Teodor Nette, which narrates the difficulties in returning the diplomatic bag of the murdered agent to Russia, by sea and before it is found by the British secret police.
- Bandits descend on a Jewish village and threaten to destroy it if they're not given five beauties in wedding dresses.
- Jimmy Higgings is an worker at a plant making weapons for Tsarist Russia and the German Empire. During World War I, Jimmy speaks at a spontaneous rally against the war. He is arrested. When released, he becomes unemployed. He is happy to hear the news about the revolution; he volunteers into the American expeditionary force thinking that having the weapons he can fight against Germans - the enemies of the Russian revolution. However, finding himself in Russia, Jimmy soon realise that the expeditionary force of American volunteers fights not against the Germans, but against the young Socialist Russia. Without any hesitation, he takes the path of revolutionary struggle, he spreads propaganda among the American soldiers and distributes Bolshevik leaflets. Captured by the American military police, Jimmy Higgings does not betray his friends. He is sentenced to twenty years in a military prison. Jimmy cannot stand it and loses his mind.
- During the 1917-1921 Civil War in Ukraine, a landlord and his family flee the Bolshevik troops, who are already on the outskirts of the city. The faithful doorman stays behind to guard the family's valuables, buried in the garden. During the chaotic escape to the station the landlord's son gets separated and returns to the estate, where Anton hides him in his tiny room in the attic. In the evening, the mansion is occupied by Bolsheviks led by Anton's son, Andrii. Anton doesn't share his son's political ideas and restrains himself for showing his love for him. Accidentally the young master witnesses Andrii finding the treasures hidden in the garden. When the White Army returns to the city the following day, the landlord's son gives Andrii away to counterintelligence, and Andrii is executed as a Bolshevik agent. In despair, Anton sets fire to the estate, along with the partying White Army generals.
- 1919 Odessa is occupied by Denikin's troops. The background of the picture is the era of the wild revelry of the White Guard, intervention in the south of Russia and attempts to enslave it economically by European capitalists.
- Vasya has been left to himself since childhood and is used to independence. In one day, Vasya manages to get a man out of the water, ride a strange car, expose a priest and catch the thief.
- The bourgeois wedding of Dekabryukhova is interrupted by the machine-gun fire of revolution. He flees abroad, leaving his wife. Oktyabryukhov stays and adapts to the new life. At the end of the picture there is an attempt at universal reconciliation and the poet's tormenting theme "three-way love". Dekabryuhov returns to his homeland. His wife is already married to Oktyabryukhov. Having learned about it, Dekabryukhov tries to leave, but the newlyweds force him to stay. The film was shot by director O. Iskander, but the main creator, of course, was Mayakovsky.
- On the struggle of artisanal peasants against the economic oppression by the kulaks.
- The seamy Jewish underworld of Odessa is the setting for Isaac Babel's story based on the life of gangster king Mishka Yaponchik "Mike the Jap" Vinnitsky. Murder is a way of life for Benya and his gang until he finds himself ensnared in a Bolshevik trap.
- The violinist Leva Ratkovich loved the poor girl Rachel, but her father did not allow her to marry a "beggar". Making sure that in tsarist Russia he could not achieve recognition, Leva decided to emigrate. After wandering, he falls into the hands of an impressionario, who made him a celebrity. On tour, Leva met his Rachel, who was also forced to emigrate. The Wandering Stars finally meet.
- On the participation of children in the fight against kulaks.
- Mothl's father dies, leaving him to survive on his own in a changing world while the tailor Shimen-Elye buys a she-goat which mysteriously changes gender each time its new owner stops at the inn between Kozodoyevka, where he purchased the creature, and Zlodyevke, where he lives.
- Set in Odessa at the end of the Civil War when the town is occupied by the Whites. The night coachman, fifty-year-old Gordi Yaroshchuk, lives with his daughter Kate who gets involved with a Bolshevik and revolutionary.
- Propaganda Soviet film, which aims to establish the image of Petliura and Ukrainians as anti-Semites and murderers.
- Kulaks kill local reporter in revenge for a revealing article.
- The action takes place in the coal mines of Donbas in the pre-revolutionary days of 1917. About the brutal exploitation of workers, which caused an armed uprising.
- Exposing the customs of provincial philistinism in the years of NEP. Small town. Mitya, going to the party of his bride Shurochka, finds a dying woman with infants. When he comes to visit the child, everyone decides that he was the father - and kicks him out. Mitya decides to drown himself. Unknown saves him and helps to stage his own funeral. During the mourning ceremony, Mitya rise from the grave, thanks the inhabitants petrified by horror, and leaves the city forever.
- About the first worker strikes of in Austrian Galicia. The action takes place in the 1870s in the vicinity of the city of Borislav, known for its rich deposits of earth wax (oil product).
- The serf Ostap Mandryka, who caused arrogant anger with his behavior, flees from inevitable reprisal in Bulgaria, where he is injured when crossing the border. Together with other fugitives, he wanders around a foreign land and eventually returns to Russia.
- The neighbors, wanting to vacate the room she lives in, are trying to slander Vera, who dearly loves Alexei. He believes their gossip. Hooligan Sashka wounds the girl. Alexey realizes that he is wrong.
- About the struggle of Soviet people against spies and saboteurs. - At the construction of a new power plant, a former White Guard, Poloz, appears on the site under the guise of a hunter. His goal is to blow up the power plant. And he will not stop at stealing the little son of his ex-wife Katya .
- Ukraine, 1920. Suffering from cruel attacks of Makhno's and Vrangel's forces in bloody storm of civil war, Ukrainian peasant Stepan Kovalchuk, his wife Marya and his father-in-law Maksim Fedko make their historical choice.
- About the peasant uprising at the end of the 18th century under the leadership of Maxim Zheleznyak and Ivan Gonta.
- A peasant visits the DneproGES construction.
- After eating too much, the glutton-millionaire realizes that he has ruined his stomach. The hired scientist, Professor Fuchs, proposes a new surgical treatment that would separate the processes of satiety and digestion. To do this, you need to find a healthy person who agreed to provide the stomach. He is found, and soon the millionaire showed fantastic food absorption abilities. The painful sensations of an overloaded stomach were experienced not by the glutton, but by the unemployed driver, Emil.
- During the troubles of the Civil War, Galya lost her husband Sergey at the station. For a long time she was faithful to him. Galya loves Pavel Kovalchuk. But Galya hopes to meet her husband. Suddenly she meets Sergei, but he is married to another.
- Kavaleridze's silent revolutionary epic Perekop depicts the Perekop-Chongar operation (1920) during the Russian Civil War, in which the Red Army, led by Nestor Makhno's troops, defeated Wrangel, took Crimea, and, according to the axiom of Soviet historiography, ended the civil war. However, according to Kavaleridze, he is not only talking about this: "my film is dedicated to the three Perekop - the military, the destruction of the kulak and the implementation of the five-year plan."
- Comic misunderstandings related to the suspicion of the American authorities. The baggage of a Soviet engineer on a business trip to the USA says "Khimugol" (the name of the trust where he serves). There are oranges in the box, and the authorities decides that there is a new explosive. In parallel, the theme of the engineer's hobby is developing not just as an American, but as a movie star.
- About the struggle of Pomory fishermen in the first years of NEP with a private trader - a buyer of cheap fish.
- About the struggle of the Ukrainian poor against the Polish gentry and local feudal lords in the XVIII century.
- On the fight against kulaks in the village.
- Based on L. Desbury's novel "Immortal" about the struggle of American workers against capitalists and pro-fascist organizations.