The film is dedicated to the history of cinematography, tells about the actors, directors and screenwriters working on this topic. Memoirs of M. I. Romm, Y. A. Raizman, E. I. Gabrilovich, S. I. Yutkevich, N. Nemolyaev, actors Y. Kayurov, K. Lavrov, M. Ulyanov (sinhr.). The film uses fragments of films: "October", "The Man with a Gun", "Lenin in October", "Lenin in 1918", "Light over Russia", "Communist", "Tales of Lenin", "Lenin in Poland" , "Lenin in Paris", "Mother's Heart" (in the role of V. Ulyanov - R. Nakhapetov), "Lenin in the Spill", "The Sixth of July", "On the Way to Lenin", "Strokes for a Portrait of Lenin". Working moments of filming.