Bilgi :An epic about the traditional life of Cossacks and its transformations in the Siberian province of Dauria. Focused on a Cossack village that is living like one big family under the guidance of a strong leader - Ataman (Kopelyan). Young Cossack Roman Ulybin (V. Solomin) is in love with beautiful Dashutka (Golovina). Roman is asking his father Severian Ulybin (Shelokhonov) to send a Matchmaker before it s too late. But a wealthy crook has already hired the Matchmaker, and his son gets married at the lavish traditional wedding with singing, dancing and drinking in the Russian style. All the village is there, except for the Ulybin family. Ulybins are under suspicion, because of their first son Vasilis association with revolutionaries. Now frustrated Roman Ulybin is leaving his fathers home to follow his big brother Vasili. After the revolution the villagers are suffering a cascade of troubles. The wealthy crook is blacklisting everyone and using the brief invasion of the White Army to settle the old grudges. Even the strong leader Ataman gets humiliated and beaten to tears, and father Severian Ulybin is wrongfully executed. Roman comes back to rejoice with the villagers around his dead father.