A movie about the life and activities of the civil war hero Sergey Lazo (1894-1920),
a poet, a publicist, a war strategist, a party activist, a diplomat fluent in several
languages, a direct descendant of a noble Moldavian family, the son of a land-owner,
a former student of the Moscow University and an officer of the tsarist army who
determinately crossed over to the revolutionaries and headed the partisan movement
during the struggle against the Japanese intervention in the Far East. At the age of
26 Lazo literally burnt in the revolutionary fire. The enemies threw him into the boiler
of a steam locomotive and burnt him alive.
* Diploma of the Jury, Prize of the newspaper «Za Rodinu» of the Baltic military
command, Prize for the Best Male Part at the Film Festival of the Baltic States,
Byelorussia and Moldavia in Riga (1968)
Source : www.mkfivanovo.ru