Colonel Levchenko's family is in trouble: his son is a revolutionary. After witnessing his father humiliate the lower ranks, the son turns to the socialists. "I consider your entire government enemies," the father declares, unhesitatingly turning his son over to the gendarmes. Soon, the Civil War breaks out...
Cheslav Sabinsky began his career in film as an artist, gradually moving on to directing. His film adaptations of folk songs and romances made him a name before the Revolution. In the early 1920s, he made a couple of propaganda films and concluded that "one-sided, deliberate propaganda misses the mark." Sabinsky wrote that in "Enemies," he "identified, in the interests of realism, the minor mistakes and some weaknesses of the freedom fighters, as well as the human virtues of the opposing side." However, the film's most striking scene is the officers' orgy, during which vodka is even poured onto a polar bear's skin.
