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A dramatization of the 1919 defense of Petrograd, focusing on Bolshevik leadership and the defeat of White Army forces during the Russian Civil War.
A miners in Donbass embrace new technologies with enthusiasm.
Surrounded by a few party officials, Alexei Ivanov, a stakhanovist smelter, is decorated by Stalin. The "Little Father of the Peoples" takes this opportunity to invoke threats of war.... One day, war indeed breaks out. Bombs fall on the field where Alexei finds himself in the company of the schoolmistress Natacha, his fiancée. Alexei joins the Red Army and soon becomes a sergeant. Fighting rages and German troops advance. Natacha is arrested and deported. But the tide turns decisively with the German defeat at Stalingrad. Now the major offensive against Hitler can begin.
Bakhva Pulava, a merchant from Poti fells in love with a poor tailor woman named Esma and marries her. At the same time, enchanted by her beauty, another man named Jeremiah Tsarba decides to kidnap her. When Esma refuses to share bed with him Jeremiah mercilessly kills her and when faced by accusations avoids punishment with the help of Valida, an influential nobleman’s daughter. Bakhva Pulava makes a decision to take justice into to his hands.
When the communists decide to renovate the city and try to demolish a badly positioned church, the religious citizens decide to fight for what is holy to them.
Blinded by the desire of wealth, mother of Siko makes him leave behind his wife and child and go to America.
Two brothers, Turiko and Mgelia fall in love with the same girl and become each other's merciless enemies. The brothers decide to draw lots, the winner must kill the loser and marry the woman.
Propaganda film enhancing the role of I.V. Stalin in the defense of the city of Tsaritsyn (subsequently Stalingrad, at present Volgograd) by the red army during the Russian civil war.
Based on A. Shirvanzade’s story “Madwoman.” It's a tragic story of an epileptic girl, who is the victim of the prejudices of her husband's family. A powerful village drama with a horribly tragic ending, visually striking, lots of Armenian customs.
The enemy of the collective farm movement, Kirile, with his advice, confuses the chairman of the collective farm “Orange Valley”, Tedo, who believes in his support. He tries to turn Tedo and Giorgi, who has recently returned from the civil service into enemies.
A dead hen becomes a problem between two neighbor families in Ajara (west Georgia). That leads to drama; a young guy is killed in the next quarrel.
The film mocks the stereotypical image of Caucasians and Georgians. False representations of the Caucasus are satirized: Kakhuri wine flows like a spring on a narrow street of Tbilisi, which is drunk with wine glasses; Barbers shave their clients with a dagger, and if something offends them, they cut them with the same dagger; And A dancing Georgian woman dancing is observing all these without any emotion.
Two young workmen's teams are finishing a newly completed oil pipeline. A defect is discovered, which is blamed on one of the team members, Lado, and he is taken to the blacksmith shop. There is another socialist competition between the teams. A machine tool part suddenly goes missing from the first team, which will disrupt the entire work. The head of the second team is accused of stealing the part, but it soon turns out that he stole it from Lado in order to take revenge. At the general meeting, they demand Lado's dismissal, but the young worker's foreman intervenes and, at his request, Lado remains in the factory. The teams involved in the competition complete the plan ahead of schedule, their pictures are posted on the red board.