Nikolai Ostrovsky

Ukraine, 1918. Underground worker Sigismund Raevsky organizes a Komsomol cell and gathers young people to fight against the German invaders...

A Soviet era ideological drama based on Nikolai Ostrovsky's famous novel "How Steel Was Tempered".

This literary adaptation was one of only two films made during World War II on the subject of the Civil War following the Bolshevik Revolution, as attention by filmmakers and viewers shifted away from past history and toward the current conflict.