Schoolboy Vasya and his little sister Klasha live on the shore of a picturesque lake, in which trout are bred. With the help of their friends, the dogs of the Quiver and the horse Strelka, the guys detain the poachers.
There is a civil war in Central Asia. Bai-rapist kills the whole family of a Turkmen young man, the shepherd Chara Esenov. The surviving Chara, avenging the scolded honor of her young sister, single-handedly pursues Shamurad Khan, the head of the local Basmachi gang. Acquaintance with the Red Army soldier clarifies the meaning of the fight to the hero of the film, he adjoins the Red Guard, opposing the Basmachi, and, giving up personal revenge, once leads Shamurad into a detachment for a legal trial ...
La acción se ambienta en la costa este del mar Caspio, la actual Turkmenistán, donde el Fyodor Sukhov, soldado del Ejército Rojo, ha luchado durante la guerra civil durante muchos años. Tras ser hospitalizado y licenciado, durante el regreso a su hogar junto a esposa, se ve atrapado en el desierto en medio de una pelea entre una unidad de caballería del Ejército Rojo y rebeldes Basmachi. Sukhov termina custodiando el harem del caudillo Bashmachi, Abdullah, cuando sus camaradas del ejército lo persiguen. La tarea resulta ser peor de lo imaginado, y entre los ataques de los Basmachis y los ofrecimientos del harem, Sukhov debe lidiar con Vereshchagin, un borracho antiguo oficial imperial ruso que todavía cuida el puesto fronterizo comercian y el museo donde se cobijan...
Touching story about love of a young romantic man (Zhenia), who is a soldier of Guard Mortar Division (Division of "Katusha" Reactive Mortars) and a girl-telegraphist (Little Zhenia) at the last months of WW II.
The film is based on the eponymous book, written by two former street gangsters - Grigori Belykh and Leonid Panteleyev. Film is set in the 1920s St. Petersburg, Russia. Streets of the city are full of the homeless boys. They are caught to be raised and educated at the correction school named after Dostoevsky. The boys are street smart and difficult. But the faculty stands up to the challenge. The teaches are being devoted and caring, and gradually win the respect of the most difficult kids. The school director Vicknixor is a refined intellectual, who becomes a role model for the boys.
