Set around the Volga river, the story begins around 1900, when Russian peasants are let free and allowed to own their farmlands. But soon they suffer from losses during the 1917 Russian Revolution and the following Civil War. Then, the major national catastrophe is started by Stalin: his communist government kills millions of farmers and steals all their food supplies, causing the longest and deadliest famine all over central Russia during the 1920s and 1930s.
Length 588 minutes
Nikolai Voloshin | Andrei Dudarenko | Sergey Nikonenko | Nina Ruslanova | Natalya Sayko | Aleksei Buldakov | Kirill Lavrov | Pyotr Shelokhonov | Jurij Votjakov | Vladlen Biryukov | Nikolai Mikheyev | Vladimir Bogdanov | Vladimir Aukstikalnis | Galina Gudova | Nikolai Kryukov | Natalya Lapina | Mariya Lavrova | Grigori G. Nikulin | Natasha Reshetnikova | Aleksey Zaytsev | Viktor Mikhaylov | Aleksandr Bashurov | Mikhail Brylkin