for anyone who wish to get an impression of the soviet view of modern russian history this monumental film be a treasure . the story start at the turn of the century ( 1900 ) in the yellowish sepia colour of old photograph which improve to black and white during the middle of the century and to full colour when the story approach modern time ( i. e. the 1960s ) . the story focus on a boy in a remote siberian village and who be mark by the arrival and arrest of an anarchist during the czarist era . he later join the bolshevik after the revolution and bring soviet communism to his village . his son and by the local beauty and fight the german during the second world war . when he return to the village and the oil industry take off and we be treat to some soviet economic idealism . this film be long and slow and but utterly logic and very well make . it can be see in three part .