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- A soldier returns to Kyiv after surviving a train crash and encounters clashes between nationalists and collectivists.
- An old Ukrainian man protects and searches for a legendary treasure in the midst of political upheavals.
- During the 1917-1921 Civil War in Ukraine, a landlord and his family flee the Bolshevik troops, who are already on the outskirts of the city. The faithful doorman stays behind to guard the family's valuables, buried in the garden. During the chaotic escape to the station the landlord's son gets separated and returns to the estate, where Anton hides him in his tiny room in the attic. In the evening, the mansion is occupied by Bolsheviks led by Anton's son, Andrii. Anton doesn't share his son's political ideas and restrains himself for showing his love for him. Accidentally the young master witnesses Andrii finding the treasures hidden in the garden. When the White Army returns to the city the following day, the landlord's son gives Andrii away to counterintelligence, and Andrii is executed as a Bolshevik agent. In despair, Anton sets fire to the estate, along with the partying White Army generals.
- About the struggle of Soviet people against spies and saboteurs. - At the construction of a new power plant, a former White Guard, Poloz, appears on the site under the guise of a hunter. His goal is to blow up the power plant. And he will not stop at stealing the little son of his ex-wife Katya .
- Set in Odessa at the end of the Civil War when the town is occupied by the Whites. The night coachman, fifty-year-old Gordi Yaroshchuk, lives with his daughter Kate who gets involved with a Bolshevik and revolutionary.
- The violinist Leva Ratkovich loved the poor girl Rachel, but her father did not allow her to marry a "beggar". Making sure that in tsarist Russia he could not achieve recognition, Leva decided to emigrate. After wandering, he falls into the hands of an impressionario, who made him a celebrity. On tour, Leva met his Rachel, who was also forced to emigrate. The Wandering Stars finally meet.
- The seamy Jewish underworld of Odessa is the setting for Isaac Babel's story based on the life of gangster king Mishka Yaponchik "Mike the Jap" Vinnitsky. Murder is a way of life for Benya and his gang until he finds himself ensnared in a Bolshevik trap.
- About the struggle of the Ukrainian poor against the Polish gentry and local feudal lords in the XVIII century.
- Vasya has been left to himself since childhood and is used to independence. In one day, Vasya manages to get a man out of the water, ride a strange car, expose a priest and catch the thief.
- The neighbors, wanting to vacate the room she lives in, are trying to slander Vera, who dearly loves Alexei. He believes their gossip. Hooligan Sashka wounds the girl. Alexey realizes that he is wrong.
- Propaganda Soviet film, which aims to establish the image of Petliura and Ukrainians as anti-Semites and murderers.
- On the elimination of child homelessness in the years of NEP. In a small port city in the basement Vasya and Ganusya live with a drunken father. After the father's death in a drunken brawl, Ganusa finds himself in a children's colony, and Vasya adjoins the port street children.
- On the struggle of artisanal peasants against the economic oppression by the kulaks.
- The bourgeois wedding of Dekabryukhova is interrupted by the machine-gun fire of revolution. He flees abroad, leaving his wife. Oktyabryukhov stays and adapts to the new life. At the end of the picture there is an attempt at universal reconciliation and the poet's tormenting theme "three-way love". Dekabryuhov returns to his homeland. His wife is already married to Oktyabryukhov. Having learned about it, Dekabryukhov tries to leave, but the newlyweds force him to stay. The film was shot by director O. Iskander, but the main creator, of course, was Mayakovsky.
- Kavaleridze's silent revolutionary epic Perekop depicts the Perekop-Chongar operation (1920) during the Russian Civil War, in which the Red Army, led by Nestor Makhno's troops, defeated Wrangel, took Crimea, and, according to the axiom of Soviet historiography, ended the civil war. However, according to Kavaleridze, he is not only talking about this: "my film is dedicated to the three Perekop - the military, the destruction of the kulak and the implementation of the five-year plan."
- The true murder of the Soviet diplomat Teodor Nette, which narrates the difficulties in returning the diplomatic bag of the murdered agent to Russia, by sea and before it is found by the British secret police.
- Mothl's father dies, leaving him to survive on his own in a changing world while the tailor Shimen-Elye buys a she-goat which mysteriously changes gender each time its new owner stops at the inn between Kozodoyevka, where he purchased the creature, and Zlodyevke, where he lives.
- Comic misunderstandings related to the suspicion of the American authorities. The baggage of a Soviet engineer on a business trip to the USA says "Khimugol" (the name of the trust where he serves). There are oranges in the box, and the authorities decides that there is a new explosive. In parallel, the theme of the engineer's hobby is developing not just as an American, but as a movie star.
- 1919 Odessa is occupied by Denikin's troops. The background of the picture is the era of the wild revelry of the White Guard, intervention in the south of Russia and attempts to enslave it economically by European capitalists.
- About the peasant uprising at the end of the 18th century under the leadership of Maxim Zheleznyak and Ivan Gonta.
- 1919, Ukraine. On one side of the country - hetman detachments, on the other - in impassable thickets, one after another, guerrilla units of the Reds are formed. In the hut, in the center of one of these units, a forester lives with his granddaughter Olya. - Olena is a brave and courageous girl. Armed, she goes to reconnaissance, carries out the tasks of the partisans. Hetman track down the girl, find the forester's house, rob him. Using a blizzard, the commander of the partisan detachment Burmysh takes out a wounded forester and Olena from the forest. On the way they are stopped by a hetman guard squad, Burmysh and Olena are forced to flee. Olya manages to warn the partisans. - Partisans surround the Getman detachment, destroy it, making their way to join the advancing units of the Red Army.
- Kulaks kill local reporter in revenge for a revealing article.
- Bandits descend on a Jewish village and threaten to destroy it if they're not given five beauties in wedding dresses.
- Based on Boris Teneta's novel 'Nenavist' (Hatred) on the counter-revolutionary role of the kulaks during the civil war in Ukraine.
- Germany, 1923. Economic ruin, hunger and strikes. Workers called to fight by the communist Nils Unger seize an arsenal of weapons and turn each building into a fortress. The Social Democrat Busch does not fulfill Unger's order to blow up the bridge across the Elbe, and the Reichswehr troops enter the city. The massacre begins. Nils Unger is arrested. Busch, tied to the enemy's helper Dr. Mays, betrays the rebels under interrogation. The rebels face the trial. To avoid political publicity during the trial, Nils Unger is declared insane, but he manages to escape. And again one can hear his call "Keep the rifles!" on the streets of Hamburg.
- Based on L. Desbury's novel "Immortal" about the struggle of American workers against capitalists and pro-fascist organizations.
- Gleb Chumalov, a former factory worker, returns to a cement plant destroyed during the Civil War. The party entrusted him with a great job - to become the head of reconstruction work. Chumalov has to deal with the inertness of some demoralized unemployed, deserted workers, the bureaucracy of old and new officials of the Soviet apparatus, interruptions in obtaining the necessary money and materials for construction, and the vicious machinations of disguised enemies from among technical specialists. Gleb Chumalov, who gathers together a friendly team of party members and enthusiastic workers, manages to overcome all the obstacles - the cement plant become one of the operating enterprises of the young Soviet republic.
- The action takes place in the late 1920s Ukraine. Exposing the agent of counterrevolution penetrating the environment of Soviet scientists.
- The serf Ostap Mandryka, who caused arrogant anger with his behavior, flees from inevitable reprisal in Bulgaria, where he is injured when crossing the border. Together with other fugitives, he wanders around a foreign land and eventually returns to Russia.
- About the struggle of the Soviet school staff with the harmful effects of a backward family on a child. The guys are building a model of a locomotive for the exhibition. The schoolboy Senka, under the influence of his father, leaves the circle and wants to build a model himself. In the future, Senka leaves the house and again joins the work of the circle of young technicians.
- About the struggle of Pomory fishermen in the first years of NEP with a private trader - a buyer of cheap fish.