The film tells about the artist Gustave Courbet - the founder of French realistic painting of the 19th century. Arkai city. House where G. Courbet was born. Artist's painting "Sister's Portrait". Portrait of the Father - Regis Courbet. Self-portrait. The artist's signature on the painting. Drawing of the interior of the museum. Delacroix's paintings. Engravings: barricade, street fighting, national club, killed, arrested. Self-portrait with a pipe G. Courbet. Courbet landscape. Painting "Stone Crushers". Caricature of the painting "Atelier", "Stone Crushers". Pictures "Flowers", "Vase of flowers", "Landscape, sea wave". Courbet artist at work (photo). The painting "Killed Deer", "Hunters for Dogs". Courbet at his easel in the park (photo). Engraving "Train with shells", "Uprising". Several engravings of the insurgent Parisians. Photos of the Communards. Wall-monument to the winners in the streets of Paris (engraving). Paris Commune (engraving). The storming of Paris, barricades, street fighting, burning houses (engravings). Courbet in prison (picture). Courbet's drawings. Courtroom (photo). Museum building. Louvre. Courbet's paintings in the hall.