Fyodor Brest

Young boy dreams of himself as a version of Gulliver who has landed in Lilliput suffering under capitalist inequality and exploitation.

At the end of the 1920s, young lace factory workers' Komsomol cell faces a conflict between political activists and hooligans, while dealing with an inactive club and bureaucratic apathy.

A girl with an alcoholic father struggles to fit in.

The struggle of the Komsomol members against private speculators for the surrender of fish to the state.