

Overview
Two village boys - brothers Semyon and Pavel - serve a Moscow merchant-shopkeeper. They face harsh exploitation and hard forced labor. The brothers' life paths diverge. Unable to withstand the merchant's bullying, Pavel goes to the factory, becomes a worker, and later a professional revolutionary. Semyon remains in service. In the post-revolutionary period, Semyon, having been to the front and returning to the village, joined the kulaks, brutally dealt with representatives of the Soviet government, becoming the head of a gang of “badgers” hiding in the forests. A Red Army detachment led by Pavel is sent to fight the bandits...
Year 1968
Studio Central Television USSR
Director Viktor Ryzhkov, Lidiya Ishimbaeva
Crew Leonid Leonov (Writer), Yuri Chichkov (Music), Viktor Ryzhkov (Director), Lidiya Ishimbaeva (Director), Viktor Chelyshev (Production Design)
Popularity 0
Language Pусский