Mosfilm. Duration: 200 min. 1978. Parts 1 and 2: Directed by A. Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky. Starring: V. Samoilov, V. Solomin, S. Shakurov, N. Andreichenko, M. Kononov, E. Korenoev, P. Kadochnikov, E. Leonov-Gladyshev, L. Pleshakov and others. Parts 3 and 4: Directed by A. Mikhalkov-Konshalovsky. Starring: N. Mikhalkov, L. Gurchenko, I. Okhlupin, S. Shakurov, P. Kadochnikov, V. Larionov, E. Leonov-Gladyshev and others.The story about a very small, godforsaken village in Siberia tells the history of Russia from the beginning of the century up until the early 1980's. Three generations try to find happiness and share it with the people. One builds a road through the taiga to the star over the horizon, the second wants to 'build communism', and the third searches for oil. The oil is found but the destruction of an old cemetery and everything the people of the village cared for is the price the people paid for the 'black treasure' of Siberia.
