The film is dedicated to the life and creative activity of the writer Mikhail Sholokhov.
Soviet and foreign cultural figures talk about the importance of the creative heritage of the writer, among them: Lunacharsky, Maxim Gorky, Tolstoy, Nikolai Tikhonov, Fedin, A. Kalinin, Aitmatov, G. Markov, M. Larni Finnish writer, Ernest Hemingway, P. Neruda and others.
Military Personnel newsreels, old Moscow.
Photo by Mikhail Sholokhov and group shots of different years.
Footage from the film on the works of Mikhail Sholokhov.
Moments of filming.
Among the actors Shukshin.
Mikhail Sholokhov with S. Bondarchuk.
Presentation of M. Sholokhov Nobel and Lenin Prize.
Mikhail Sholokhov at the International Symposium "Sholokhov and we" in
Leipzig, during his stay in Japan, at a session of the Supreme Soviet of Deputies, the Writers' Congress, the 24th Congress of the CPSU.
Mikhail Sholokhov with his family, while receiving guests at Veshenskaia, at work, on vacation.
View from the house in Veshenskaia.
Landscapes.
Key words
Literature.
Cultural ties.
Scientific communications.
The highest authorities.
Communist Party.
Nature.
City.
The Great Patriotic War.
Cinema.
Rewarding.
East Germany.