

Root of Life
1978-09-01 · 87 min · ★ 8.0
Fascinated by the idea of creating an industrial inter-collective farm garden, scientist Andrei Barbu interrupts his work at the institute and moves to the district...
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- Directors
- Nikolai Gibu
- Production companies
- Moldova-Film, ARTA
- Countries
- Soviet Union
- Status
- Released
Top Cast
Vladimir IvashovAndrei Barbu
Klara LuchkoAleksandra Tinke
Vyacheslav ShalevichIvan Zhosu
Mihai VolontirLukyan Batyr (Kolkhoz Chairman)
Natalya RychagovaNastya
Svetlana TomaGreta
Svetlana SvetlichnayaSabina
Yuri KuzmenkoSavva Vyblov
Boris MironyukFronya
Konstantin KonstantinovFilimon
Victor CiutacTurkan (Head of Construction Train at Bama)
Vladimir KoretskyKolkhoz Chairman
Afanasiy TrishkinIon Zakhariya
Antonina BushkovaKolkhoz WorkerTitle information and images are supplied by TMDb. Explore our discovery guide for advice on comparing metadata and legal viewing options.
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It depicts the establishment of kolkhoz (collective farming) in Bukhara. Poor dehkans are oppressed by bays and emir. One of them, unable to bear the slave labor, flees from his native land. A few years later, the fugitive returns and becomes an activist of the collective farm movement. Kulaks kill him and try to flood the collective farm fields with water. However, collective farmers stop the sabotage and reveal the secret of the murdered activist. The perpetrators are justifiably punished.