Durante la Seconda guerra mondiale, nella Bielorussia occupata dai nazisti, due partigiani sovietici vengono incaricati di trovare provviste per il loro gruppo. Dopo uno scontro con i soldati tedeschi, i due uomini vengono catturati e costretti ad affrontare una dura prova fisica e morale, mettendo in discussione coraggio, fede e senso del sacrificio.
A locker room janitor at the train station notices that a suitcase was put in a locker by a man, but pulled out by another man. This suitcase appeared to be stuffed with money. This incident allows a police detective to uncover a huge criminal organization responsible for theft, smuggling and murder.
The story of a small village Zeleny Dol, lost in the taiga wilderness, became a reflection of the fate of a huge country. A wide panorama of people's life unfolds before the viewer: from the defeat of Kolchak's White gangs to the first tractor furrow on the collective farm meadow, from the first elections to the Supreme Soviet to the send-off of Zelenodol residents to the fronts of the WW2, from the labor feat of women's hands in the rear to Victory Day, to the first post-war bread.
In May 1941, a young instructor of the Komsomol Regional Committee of Belovezhskaya Pushcha Andrei Dyomushkin was invited to the graduation party of the Moscow Theatre School to create a professional theatre in the city. The war has crossed out all plans. Now he, along with the course of graduates, will have to go through the war and be the commander of the front acting fraternity in the current army "A Special Unit"...
Uno Zar sposa la più giovane di tre sorelle, la quale gli dà un figlio. Le altre due, invidiose, fanno gettare madre e figlio in mare. Il Principe e la Zarina vengono trasportati su un'isolo dove un cigno magico concede al giovane dei desideri.