A Soviet woman is caught between her husband and son, who find themselves on opposing sides of the Russian Revolution.

In 1918 a young and simple Mongol herdsman and trapper is cheated out of a valuable fox fur by a European capitalist fur trader. Ostracized from the trading post, he…

With an international chess tournament in progress, a young man becomes completely obsessed with the game. His fiancée has no interest in it, and becomes frustrated and depressed by his…

Shortly before the outbreak of WWI, a peasant from rural Russia arrives in St. Petersburg to find work.