The film tells about the most important discoveries made by the largest Soviet filmmakers Eisenstein, V. Pudovkin, D. Vertov, A. Dovzhenko, L. Kuleshov. The film uses fragments of films: "Battleship Potemkin", "In the heat of the NEP", "The extraordinary adventures of Mr. West in the country of the Bolsheviks", "Mother", "Three songs about Lenin"; fragments of the film magazine "Pathé-magazine", the magazine "Kino-week"; fragments of documentaries "Enthusiasm", "Katyusha"; fragments of films by A. Dovzhenko "Arsenal", "Earth"; fragments of the films "The Cranes Are Flying", "The Ballad of the Soldier". Doctor of Arts, Professor IV Vaysfeld, filmmakers G. Alexandrov, E. Gabrilovich, A. Golovnya, S. Rostotsky, A. Konchalovsky, M. Khutsiev, G. Chukhrai talk about Soviet cinema (synchronously).