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Geological expedition is looking for a rare element in Pamir mountains.
Propaganda of child rearing in a nursery. Olga, a drummer in the Komsomol brigade, is going to become a mother and is thinking about raising a child... The film is considered lost.
Woven around the daily lives of two children, nine-year-old Nastenka and five-year-old Katia, this is a story of the 17 months' siege of Leningrad and of the people and families shattered by the war, their homes bombed and destroyed, their lives in a constant anticipation of the advancing German army and air raids.
Pyotr, backward lad from poor village, comes to town desperate for work. He's hired as replacement ("scab") worker at big metallurgical factory, which is in the throes of a strike organized by the Bolsheviks (communists). Deceitful industrialist's son involves naive young man in an attempt to murder Bolshevik leader.
About the struggle of the red Army and the revolutionary workers of Petrograd against the white guards in 1919....
