[2] The film was based on literary works of Sholom Aleichem, Aleksandr Kuprin and Isaac Babel.

[3] Motya Rabinovich, in celebration of his good fortune, is preparing a feast for the entire village.

Alongside the troubling visions, scenes emerge of a truck, carrying pogromists under the Russian tricolor flag, ominously approaching the village to a mournful waltz.

In the final scene, Motya and his family are packing up to leave the village with all their belongings.

Making his debut in cinema, the young theater director from Leningrad Dmitry Astrakhan, along with his permanent co-author playwright Oleg Danilov, turned to the Jewish theme, which was as popular in the late 1980s as the Stalinist theme.