Georgi Semyonov

Ukraine, 1918. Underground worker Sigismund Raevsky organizes a Komsomol cell and gathers young people to fight against the German invaders...

Poetic treatment of the early life of Ukrainian poet and painter Taras Shevchenko. A biopic made on the occasion of his 150th anniversary. It dwells on the first part of the Shevchenko's life leading up to the writing of his rebellious poem "A Dream" (A comedy).

The events of the film cover the story of the Kotsiubynsky family in the years 1912-1918, ending with the defeat of the Central Rada and the establishment of a Soviet republic in Ukraine in the spring of 1918.

Festive Kyiv meets victorious warriors. Among the noise and fun, Irina Gaeva feels especially lonely. No one is waiting for her, no one meets her at the station. All her family and friends died during the war. Confused, overwhelmed by grief, Irina decides to go to the village, in the battles for which her husband died.