Bobrik
The movie's opening sequence takes place in 1921, towards the end of Russia's civil war, as the Red Army are vanquishing the last Menshevik forces of the White Guard along the western frontier.
Savelich
An adaptation of Pushkin's historical novel about the Pugachev's Rebellion in 1773–1774.
During the good old days of the Russian aristocracy, that is to say, before the October Revolution, in the city of Moscow there was a fancy restaurant which catered to the appetites and egos of the rich. In one such establishment works a middle-aged waiter who is devoted to serving his bourgeoisie clients correctly. However, his life outside his job is very different: His son was killed during the Russian civil war and the waiter's wife died of grief as a result....
Ukrainian silent courtroom drama about the trial on charges of Menachem Mendel Beilis in the ritual murder of 12-year-old Andrey Yushchinsky. Menahem Mendel Beilis was a Russian Jew accused of ritual murder in Kyiv, in the then Russian Empire, in a notorious 1913 trial, known as the Beilis trial or Beilis affair.
El Tratado de Paz de Riga [1921] establece la frontera entre la Bielorrusia panpolaca y la soviética, frontera que pasa por la finca del conde polaco Wadecki. La mejor parte de la mansión y el palacio resultan estar en territorio soviético. Todos los amaneceres los gallos, cacareando a ambos lados de la frontera, le recuerdan al conde cómo una mañana temprano unos campesinos rebeldes irrumpieron en su palacio al son de los gallos, y él, su mujer y sus invitados estuvieron a punto de morir...
