COLLECTION · Series · 1968

Badgers

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Early 20th century, Moscow. Brothers Semyon and Pavel work as servants for a wealthy merchant, enduring harsh labor and exploitation. Their paths diverge: Pavel flees to a factory, becomes a worker, and eventually a revolutionary. Semyon stays in service. Post-revolution, Semyon, a war veteran, returns to the village, joins the kulaks, and leads a gang of "badgers" hiding in the forests, violently opposing Soviet representatives. A Red Army detachment, led by Pavel, is dispatched to combat the bandits.