Abbasov, one of the founders of Uzbek national cinematograph, brings out several issues and concerns, typical for the films of Soviet era – the effects of World War II on family life, life in Soviet orphanages and the ‘internationalism’ of Soviet life. Shot in 1963, it shows how children of different nationalities learn to live together as one family as it also brings out ‘Uzbe...
Soviet Russia, the Volga, in 1921. Do not have time otgremet battle of civil war, as a new calamity overtook a young Soviet republics. The drought dried up the land of the Volga. Cereal crop failure led to mass starvation. Soviet power was not in a position to help poor farmers.
To save his mother and younger brothers from hunger, peasant boy, Misha Dodonov, along with another ...