In June 1941, the Extraordinary Defense Headquarters of Leningrad, under the leadership of Zhdanov and Voroshilov, decided to build the Luga defensive line. Heavy fighting west of Pskov forced units of the front to withdraw, and on July 9, Pskov was also abandoned. The battles in the Luga direction held back the enemy. The first attacks of the Germans, intending to cross the Luga line on the move, were repulsed with heavy losses for them.
The film takes place in Uzbekistan during the Great Patriotic War. Pulat and Bahor love each other, but the happiness of the heroes is prevented by a rich friend of the parents of a girl who sees her as her future wife.
Antonina Vasilyevna, as a member of the bureau of the district committee of the party, was instructed to save the Leningrad children, whom the war overtook in the suburban camps. She took them to the Kirov region. After twelve days of hard travel, the children arrived in the village of Supryadki...
Un niño llamado Volka descubre una antigua ánfora en el fondo de un río y se la lleva a casa. Cuando la abre, un genio emerge de ella. Se presenta como Hassan Abdurrahman ibn Khottab, aunque Volka le llamará Khottabych. Despues de mil años encerrado, el agradecido Khottabych está dispuesto a cumplir cualquiera de los deseos de Volka. Pero Volka descubrirá que mejor haría en usar los poderes del genio con cuidado, ya que pueden tener resultados desastrosos...
