Ukraine, 1918. Underground worker Sigismund Raevsky organizes a Komsomol cell and gathers young people to fight against the German invaders...
Fictionalized autobiography of a young Bolshevik fighter taking part in the Russian civil war.
The sacrifice of a young proletarian hero during the Civil War following the Bolshevik Revolution is told in flashback.
This literary adaptation was one of only two films made during World War II on the subject of the Civil War following the Bolshevik Revolution, as attention by filmmakers and viewers shifted away from past history and toward the current conflict.