Acting
A young farmer Ivan and his lazy father Stepan try to help with the construction of the Dniprohes, but he learns that strength is not enough for a worker and joins the Communist party.
After a pacifist artwork incurs the displeasure of totalitarian state authorities, its creator is accused of the murder of a state official.
On the 'class struggle' in rural areas in 1929, when the first collective farms were being established.
About the struggle of serfs and soldiers of the Right-Bank Ukraine, led by the folk hero Karmelyuk (Ustim Karmalyuk, 1787-1835), against the haidukas of Podillya and the Pan's yoke.
The film tells about the heroic struggle of Ukrainian farmers-partisans with nazi invaders during the Great Patriotic war.