Silent feature film by Olga Preobrazhenskaya and Vladimir Gardin based on Pushkin’s story of the same name. Considered lost. Directorial debut of Olga Preobrazhenskaya.

A youth brigade at one of Kyiv's factories is competing for the title of Communist Labor Brigade. They are assisted by an old worker, Yakov Sereda. However, two people actively interfere with the Komsomol members: the rogue Yevgeny, who pretends to be a self-taught inventor, and the careerist engineer Kamensky...