Siberiade (1979) Plot Summary Explained

Release, runtime and language

1979 · 275 mins · Russian

Directed by

Andrei Konchalovsky

Starring

Nikita Mikhalkov, Natalya Andreychenko, Sergey Shakurov, Artyom Mikhalkov, Valentina Ananina, Alexander Adabashyan

Spanning the early 20th century to the early 1980s, the film follows three generations in a remote Siberian village. Each seeks a better future: the first builds a road through the taiga toward an imagined horizon, the second tries to create a communist utopia, and the third searches for oil, echoing Russia’s broader history.