Based on Maxim Gorky's play of the same name, staged by the Kuibyshev Academic Drama Theatre named after Maxim Gorky.

Based on the novel by Evgeny Nosov, staged by the Kuibyshev Academic Drama Theatre named after Maxim Gorky. About the inhabitants of a Russian village who went to defend their homeland in the first days of the war.

The film is based on real events that took place in Samara - the counter-revolutionary conspiracy of 1921. The Samara GubChK brilliantly exposes the counter-revolutionary bandit conspiracy against the Soviet government. The main characters are real people. Levin, the chairman of the Cheka, was originally named Byrne and was later repressed in the 1930s.

Lenin shows concern, spiritual generosity, justice and humanity towards the old man, a retired tsarist colonel. If the old man hadn't accidentally met with Lenin, who helped him arrange a pension, then he, the former soldier's son, who had become poor after the revolution, would have died.