Pavel Yesikovsky

An aging drilling foreman recounts the brutal suppression of an oil workers’ strike in pre-revolutionary Baku.

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In a capitalist country, "Jacob's Trading House" makes money by smuggling cocaine. To hide its shady business, the firm buys up land at cheap prices and leases it to the city's unemployed. But even here, the businessmen create a situation of slavery for the settlers. The manager of the firm marries the girl he seduced to one of the colonists, a former vagrant. The girl suffers greatly from this farce and tries to return home. Her old father fights Jacob. Jacob knocks the old man down. The colonists' patience runs out and they march against the businessmen.

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After demobilization from the Red Army, the former “red devils” decide to settle in Baku. They go to work in the chemical laboratory of one of the oil industry enterprises. Here, young heroes come to grips with the fraudster Usseinov - and soon, as hostages, find themselves on the uninhabited island of Illan Dilly...

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Engineer McLean, the prince's wife Shirvanskaya and his lover Rumanescu, who came to the Soviet Union, pretend to be circus actors and act to the detriment of the country. Arranged as a worker in the oil industry, Rumanescu steals blueprints of a military invention from the chemist Petrov. Tom Jackson discovers that the circus performer and the saboteur John are one and the same person. Saboteurs, who will be chased by "red devils" and militia workers. They will try to escape abroad, but they will die in an avalanche near the Turkish border.

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Princess Shirvanskaya is from Baku. She lives in Paris and wants to get back her father’s property who before the revolution owned big oil fields.

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At a military demonstration Red Imps: Misha, Duniasha and Tom Jackson bring a captured enemy, dangerous Makhno.

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During the Civil War, a long time friends Ilya, Tanya and Tevdore decide to find the treasure, which is hidden by the counter revolutionists. After many precarious efforts the disguised friends manage somehow to penetrate the enemy’s camp and attend their leadership’s party. Tanya enchants the enemy Commander Kleshchuk and gets hold of the key of his apartment. The friends steal the treasure, baffle Kleshchuk’s pursuit and return the treasure to the government.

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Nunu and Iago are in love with each other. The married guard Girgola wants to get hold of the woman. Girgola gets Iago arrested and makes Nunu marry his retarded brother. On one occasion he finds the woman alone and rapes her. Nunu jumps in the river to commit suicide but gets saved by Iago’s friends. Iago escapes from jail, but Girgola attacks his hideout and haves him killed together with his friends. Girgola also kills Nunu’s old father and accuses Nunu of the murder. Nunu is tied to a pole and dies in the exile.

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Adventures of three Red Army soldiers. Misha, Duniasha and Tom Jackson, an afro-American boy, are fighting against enemies.

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Following an order of the landowner, the bride of Arsena’s fellow villager gets kidnapped and the bride’s father is relentlessly flogged. Arsena tries to rescue the woman but fails and goes to the mountains with his newly married wife. Above all, Arsena learns that his wife is impregnated by the landowner and burns down his house. Arsena gets arrested, but manages to escape and joins the rebel peasants. Arsena feels that with the passage of time the rebels turn into criminals and continues to fight with the oppressors alone.

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