The film tells the story of the founder of the revolutionary movement in Switzerland, the international workers' movement activist Fritz Platten.
Part 1 - The town of Volsk. Monument. Meeting of Fritz Platten's son Georg with Swiss communists in Moscow. J. Lichleiter speaks. E. I. Druzhinina tells L. Christie about Platten. Photographs by F. Platten. Chronicle: May Day demonstration in Zurich. Part 2 - Chronicle: Streets of old Riga, Pyotr Stuchka, unveiling of the monument to Alexander III in Riga, etc. Chronicle: World War I. Goberman speaks. Chronicle: Petrograd in winter.




Chronicle: F. Platten rides a train. L. Christie talks to pioneers.
Photo by F. Platten.
Volsk, monument to the sailors of the Volsk Red Military Flotilla.
Members of the film crew with pioneers. F. Platten's son - Georg at an evening dedicated to his father. F. Platten with his son (photo). F. Platten with a student E. Druzhinina. E. Druzhinina about Platten (synchronously). (photo).
Photo by F. Platten.
Pioneers sing one of Platten's favorite songs in German. L. Christie in F. Platten's school museum.
The grave of F. Platten's father (photo).
Chronicle of 1921: famine in the Volga region.
Photo by V. Lenin.
The Swiss commune in Novaya Lava (photo). P. Platten - F. Platten's father (photo).
Chronicle: Swiss village.
Construction in the commune "Solidarity". P.Platten - mother of F.Platten.
Chronicle: Peasants' festival in Switzerland, demonstration of international solidarity.
Library building in Zurich (photo). D.Garibaldi (photo). F.Platten (photo).
proletariat, Revolutionary figures
Druzhinina E.I. - historian, specialist in the history of Russian diplomacy in the 18th century, history of the Northern Black Sea region. Doctor of Historical Sciences, Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences in the Department of History. Since 1946 - employee of the Institute of History of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
1921
Saratov region, Moscow
Volsk




Photo by F. Platten. P. Stuchka (photo).
Chronicle: rally in Riga, R. Eikhe speaking at the rally.
Bust of D. Gariboldi (photo).
Chronicle: arrival of Emperor Nicholas II in Riga.
Photographs by F. Platten from the criminal case.
Swiss village (photos).
Strike in Zurich (photo).
Chronicle of the First World War.
Photo by V. Lenin.
Lenin's room in Zurich. M. Guberman (photo). M. Guberman about F. Platten (synchronously).
Monument to Lenin in front of the Finnish Station in Leningrad.
Chronicle: rally in Petrograd near the Winter Palace.
Photo by V. Lenin and F. Platten.
1914-1918
Leningrad