“…Based on a 19th Georgian century epic, the film tells the story of Arsen, son of a poor villager who starts to fight the tsarist representatives in Georgia. He lives in the mountains and helps the poor against the armed Cossacks as well as speculative merchants. …”

“…Driven by noble intentions to enlighten people in a Siberian mining village, the young woman spent her life in the countryside and witnessed the changes a Russian village underwent from pre-revolutionary tsarist times to the aftermath of WWII. Almost deprived of love (her lover/husband is almost always absent, either imprisoned for political crimes or fighting in the communist ranks), the woman devotes her life to her school. …”