Cabbages, beetroots and pumpkins – these are both food and a connecting element for people.
Estonia, 1872. The uncompromising new owner of Robber’s Rise must battle with hard work, his spiteful neighbor and with his own family and beliefs to transform the poor land into a flourishing farm of his dreams – to bring truth and justice to a god forsaken place.
"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." Lao-Zi.
The film, banned for ideological reasons during the Soviet era, depicts the situation in an Estonian collective farm village.
Study film commissioned by the Ministry of Education of the Estonian SSR about the activities in the field of agriculture and Agrotööstuskoondis (agricultural industry cooperative).
The drama directed by Aleksandr Mandrõkin tells the story about the struggle of a young indecisive chairman in order to save the degraded collective farm.