A remote Ukrainian village. A poor peasant, Hryhorii Malynovskyi, wants to expose those who oppose the revolutionary changes in the village - the rich, led by Konstantin Popandopul, who have made their way into the village council and are ruling there. Since poor peasants enjoy certain privileges, the rich in the village council decide to exclude Grigory from the list of poor people. Outraged, Hryhorii goes to the city and writes a letter to the newspaper. Malynovskyi is murdered. The investigator uncovers the murder and the thieves are brought to justice. The film is based on the high-profile trial of the murder of the pro-Bolshevik rural journalist Hryhorii Malynovskyi in the village of Dymivka (later renamed Malynivka in honor of Malynovskyi in Odesa province, now Mykolaiv region), promoted by Pravda newspaper and mentioned by Stalin.
Pyotr Matveyenko
A. Olenich-Alekseyeva
V. Piddubnyi
Aleksandr Chuverov
Viktor Viktorov-Alekseyev
Arkadiy Malskiy
Aleksandr Sashin
I. Doroshenko
Matviy Lyarov
Osyp Merlatti
V. Rozanov
A. Belov
Anastasii Symonov
Teodor Brainin
Oksana Podlesnaya
Anton Klimenko
Vasyliy Vasylenko
Solomon Gorvits
Dmitri Fedorovskiy
Konstantin Garin
Vladimir Uralskiy
Konstantin Milyutin-Savich
Ivan Malikov-Elvorti