The film tells about the Soviet theater repertoire policy of the seventies and early eighties.
Excerpts from the play "The Dawns Here Are Quiet" Taganka Theater, "Marriage" Theater on Malaya Bronnaya, "Man with a Gun" and "The Thirteenth chairman" Theater Vakhtangov, "The Power of Darkness" Maly Theater, "Steelworkers" and "The Seagull" Moscow Art Theater, "Philistines" and "Optimistic Tragedy" Bolshoi Drama Theater, "Wild Angel" Kyiv Ivan Franko Theatre, "Brand" Riga Theater Janis Rainis, "Thinking about it" Leningrad Youth Theater, "The Life of Klim Samgin" Mayakovsky Theater, the "Caucasian purple circle" Shota Rustaveli Theatre (synchronously) .
Interview with Soviet theater directors: USSR People's Artist Tovstonogov, O. Efremov, AA Goncharov, I. Vladimirov, IA Il'inskii, MI Tsarev, People's Artist of the USSR SV Danchenko, People's Artist of the RSFSR Z.Ya.
Korogodskii, People's Artist of the Georgian SSR R. Sturua and other (synchronous).
Key words
Theatre.