Vladimir Fogel

O filme acompanha uma cabeleireira que quer contratar uma empregada doméstica não sindicalizada e escolhe Parasha na aldeia.

The rich widow Madame Collie leaves the fortune to her lost niece Maria Ivanova. Two cousins of Maria go from Paris to Moscow in order to search her. They have to find a 17 year old girl with the birthmark on her right shoulder. The documents of the heiress are hidden in her doll.

A Socialist Realist distortion of Dr. Paul Kammerer's experiments in the inheritance of acquired character(istic)s -- the (not entirely anti-Darwinian) conjecture that certain changes the environment produces in an individual may spontaneously appear in the next generation. As recounted in Arthur Koestler's The Case of the Midwife Toad (1971), Kammerer (1880-1926) claimed that darkened footpads he had artificially induced in a toad had been passed on to its offspring. When it was discovered that his critical specimen had been injected with ink (though why and by whom is still unknown), his credibility was destroyed and he apparently suicided. Richard Goldschmidt's synopsis of the film in "Research and Politics," Nature (1949), mocks it as Soviet propaganda in support of the inheritance of acquired characters: The importance attached to the subject is revealed by the facts that none other than the then all-powerful [People's] Commissar for [Public] Education, the highly ...

Jacob, a farmer, returns from the war to his wife Marie and begs the landlord baron for a plot of land to rent. The Baron grants the request, but only for a barren, rocky, useless acreage. The pair struggle to make do on this land, but then the Baron demands that Maria leave her husband to serve as wet nurse to his married daughter Anya's new baby, on threat of eviction. While nursing the daughter's baby, Maria receives unwelcome attentions from the daughter's husband, and a scandal erupts, ruining Maria in her husband's eyes. When she escapes from her employers and seeks to return home, the police give her the yellow passport signifying a prostitute, further degrading her. She approaches home, unsure of the reception that awaits her.

Um camponês vai para São Petersburgo à procura de trabalho. Sem ter a intenção, ele acaba ajudando na prisão de um antigo amigo de seu vilarejo natal, que agora é líder sindical. Mais tarde, o camponês também é preso e enviado para lutar na Primeira Guerra Mundial. Quando retorna, três anos depois, ele está pronto para participar da revolução.

A encantadora Anna trabalha em uma loja de chapéus e divide seu pequeno apartamento com um estudante sem dinheiro. Um bilhete de loteria supostamente não premiado acaba sendo uma mina de ouro, levando a uma perseguição frenética pelo bilhete – e pelo amor dela.

Volodia vai pra cidade grande a procura de emprego. Lá consegue trabalho num jornal que o obriga a encontrar uma moradia fixa. Seu amigo Kolia o convida a morar com ele e sua esposa, Liuda, na condição de dormir no sofá. Quando Kolia sai em viagem de negócios, Volodia aproveita pra conquistar Liuda.

Three reporters and an office girl are trying to stop a bacteriological strike by some powerful western business leaders against the USSR.

History of theft and double crossing when two thieves fall out over the theft of the money of the proceeds of the sale of a house by a banker to a religious community.

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.

With an international chess tournament in progress, a young man becomes completely obsessed with the game. His fiancée has no interest in it, and becomes frustrated and depressed by his neglect of her, but wherever she goes she finds that she cannot escape chess. On the brink of giving up, she meets the world champion, Capablanca himself, with interesting results.

In a capitalist country, workers are heavily repressed but manage to get a "death ray" to fight back. (A part of the movie is lost.)

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.