In an unnamed English-speaking capitalist land, a young engineer invents inexhaustible giant robots to replace the fragile human workers on high-volume assembly-lines, and soon finds his invention co-opted by the military-industrial complex.
The Great Consoler is Lev Kuleshov’s most personal film reflecting both the facts of his life and his thoughts about the place of the artist in contemporary reality. It was the only film in the Soviet cinema of those years that raised the question of what role a creative person played in society.
Khokhlova, a girl-reporter on a Moscow newpaper, falls in love with factory manager Petrovsky. To her he's the epitome of manliness--virile, decisive, strong-minded. Conversely, she rejects the sensitive, diffident editor Vasilchikov, who's in love with her, as unmanly. Her infatuation affects her work, and she is fired.
Alguns homens em busca de ouro encontram em Klondike uma rica jazida. Porém, um acontecimento inesperado e terrível quebra o curso lento e monótono de seus trabalhos: um dos trabalhadores, o irlandês Michael Davin mata dois de seus companheiros.
O senhor West, presidente da Sociedade de Jovens Cristãos da América, e seu guarda-costas Jeddie decidem visitar a União Soviética dominada pelos bolcheviques. Lá, presenciam eventos estranhos.
