Dauria

Russian Cinema Council Collection.

A chronicle of life in a small village in the Baikal Region on the eve of World War I and at the time of the October Revolution. The age-old foundations are crumbling, the process of social stratification is underway and, as a result, some people go to defend the revolution, and others to fight against it. The main hero is the young Cossack Roman Ulybin. At first this carefree daredevil is preoccupied only with one problem: whether his sweetheart, Dashutka, is to marry him or the merchant's son, Alyoshka. Roman is killing time fist fighting with his rival. But little by little, the young man realizes that the world around him has changed, that people are fighting for equality and social justice and, being a real Cossack, he can't remain on the sidelines....