خلاصه داستان : فیلم در سال‌های پایانی زندگی نویسنده روسی , لئو تولستوی , که منجر به مرگ او می‌شود , متمرکز است و در مورد ناامیدی او از سیستم و استثمار افراد عادی توسط طبقات ممتاز خبر می دهد.

The film consists of two parts: “Insomnia” and “Departure”. We shall meet Lev Tolstoy in the final years of his life at Yasnaya Polyana. We shall see him surrounded by his family, friends, acquaintances and absolute strangers who were coming to the great man and artist from all over the world. We shall hear “the voice of his thoughts”. In his sleepless nights, we shall follow his memory of the happy youthful years and the crucial, hard ones. We shall witness Tolstoy’s tragic departure from Yasnaya Polyana and his death at an obscure little station of Astapovo.

خلاصه داستان : داستانی حماسی از زندگی های درهم شکسته قزاق های دون در خلال هرج و مرج جنگ جهانی اول، انقلاب روسیه و جنگ داخلی بعدی.

Based on the novel of the same name by Mikhail Sholokhov, about the fate of people broken by the First World War, the October Revolution of 1917 and the Civil War in Russia (1917-1922), about the collapse of the foundations and ideals of the Don Cossacks of Russia at the beginning of the XX century, about the personal tragedy of the protagonist — Grigoriy Melekhov.