바이올린을 배우는 부유층의 소년 샤샤와 노동자 세르게이는 우연히 친구가 되고, 둘은 같이 영화를 보기로 약속한다. 그러나 엄마의 방해로 약속을 지키지 못한 샤샤는 오선지에 편지를 써서 세르게이에게 날려 보낸다.
누구보다도 자신의 어린 시절을 투영시키기를 즐겨했던 안드레이 타르코프스키 감독이 러시아 국립영화학교 시절 만든 졸업 작품으로 타르코프스키 특유의 아름다운 자연 풍광과 순수한 상징들이 아련한 어린 시절을 떠올리게 한다.
Director Frederick Ermler’s last silent feature and the last of four collaborations with actor Fiodor Nikitin. Nikitin plays an officer who spends a decade after the Great War as a shell-shocked amnesiac, until a glimpse of a woman through a train window sparks the return of his memory. He makes his way back to St. Petersburg, now Leningrad, a man out of time who struggles to make sense of the new society brought about by the revolution.
In the short-lived Commune of Paris, a conscripted soldier falls in love with a Communard saleswoman. As the army cracks down on the revolutionaries, the soldier is forced to fight against the Commune, and the pair's love is put to the test.
The film tells about the Decembrists’ revolt in the south of Russia. Right before the Decembrist Revolt 1825 a chevalier of fortune decides that it's time for a game. But on whom to make a bet? He asks the cards. But he's not the only one who makes the choice.
볼세비키 혁명 시대의 소비에트를 배경으로 주택 문제가 만들어 내는 소시민들의 비애를 그리고 있다. 침대와 소파밖에 놓인 것이 없는 모스크바의 작고 남루한 아파트에 살고 있는 젊은 부부. 남편의 오랜 친구가 도시로 올라오지만 집을 구할 수 없어 세 사람은 한 집에서 이상한 동거를 시작하게 된다.
Typically of the heady days of early Soviet cinema, this is constructed according to the fast, sharp editing principles advocated by Eisenstein, complete with symbolic inserts; but in terms of subject matter, it's much less explicitly political than most movies emerging from Russia in the '20s. Chronicling a young sailor's descent into a murky, treacherous underworld of pimps and thieves, after having encountered a Louise Brooks lookalike at a fairground and missed his departing boat, it's a lively moral fable that delights in vivid visual effects and quirky characterisations. If the plot occasionally reveals gaping holes, and the tacked-on ending urging the clearance of the Leningrad slums seems to be rather gratuitous, there's enough going on to keep one attentive and amused.
