Documentary film about early years of Russian cinema: its first directors, cameramen, producers and actors. Includes rare fragments of pre-revolutionary feature films, newsreels and Starewicz's animation.

• Central Studio of Documentary Films
• Viktor Khokhryakov
• Leo Tolstoy
• Yevgeni Petrov-Krayevsky
• Aleksandra Goncharova
• Michael Chekhov
• Nikolai Vasilyev
• Pavel Knorr
• Ivan Poddubniy