Leonid Yeliseyev

1942, the German Wehrmacht is trying to capture the Baku oilfields at the Black sea. Their biggest obstacle are the Caucasian Mountains and few Russians soldiers to stop them. The story revolves around an important Mountain Pass, that is heavily contested by both sides.

The opera by M. Geller based on the story by M. Sholokhov "About Kolchak, nettles and others".