SIBERIAN SAGA Episodes 3 and 4 (drama, directed by Andrei Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky, 1977)

"Sibiriada" – four films about Siberia, its people, and the turbulent 20th century. Each film, through newsreels and novels, tells about certain historical periods and correlates them with the fates of the heroes acting in the films. At the beginning of the 20th century, an escaped political prisoner, Rodion Klimentov, arrives in the Siberian village of Elan. A brief meeting with him and his stories about the utopian dream of Tomaso Campanella – the City of the Sun – sink into the soul of a little boy, poor Kolka Ustyuzhanin. After the revolution, Nikolai Ustyuzhanin clashes with wealthy neighbors Solomin. He must leave the village, and his fiancée Nastya flees with him from the Solomin family. In the 1930s, the communist Nikolai Ustyuzhanin returns to his native village to explore Siberia’s natural resources. But the old man is still alive and dies at the hands of Spiridon Solomin. Nikolai, the witness of the murder, and his son Alyoshka escape from Elan. He dreams of avenging his father, but he goes to the front and returns only 20 years later as a foreman of the oil workers.