The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution. TL;DW Version Beautiful scenery and set pieces gives way to an extremely abbridged summary of communism designed to portray it in a positive light while the story is hard to follow in the backdrop of this sloppy blowjob for Karl Marx's murderous ideology. It was a 'classic', but not because it was a good movie.