Eduard Ioganson

The film depicts the life of Stepan Khalturin, a 19th-century Russian worker and revolutionary terrorist belonging to the Narodnaya Volya (People's Will) organization.

A young country girl who becomes an apple seller is seduced and abandoned. She finds a protector but when he is arrested for theft she finds honest work in a factory.

The film recreates episodes from the December Uprising of 1825. Against the backdrop of the uprising, a love story unfolds between the Decembrist Annenkov and Polina Gebl.

An adaptation of Olga Frosh's novel about the life of Mihail Beideman.