Language: Russian. Subtitles: English. Director: Victor Tregubovich. Starring: Arkady Trusov, Pyotr Shelokhonov, Vera Kuznetsova, Vitaly Solomin, Vassily Shukshin, Yefim Kopelyan, Mikhail Kokshenov, Yuri Solomin, Victor Pavlov, Svetlana Golovina, Boris Arakelov, Fyodor Odinokov, Lyubov Malinovskaya, Yuri Nazarov.This is a chronicle of life in a small village in the Baikal region of Siberia at the beginning of World War I and during the October Revolution. Age-old foundations are crumbling, the process of social stratification is underway and, as a result, some people go to defend the revolution, and others go to fight against it. The main character is the young Cossack Roman Ulybin. At first, this carefree daredevil is preoccupied only with one problem: whether his sweetheart, Dashutka, will mary him. Roman is killing time fist-fighting with his rival. But little by little, the young man realizes that the world around him has changed, that people are fighting for equality and social justice, and, being a real Cossack, he can
