The Burdened Grain

Directed by Volodymyr Denysenko

With Laimonas Noreika, Nataliia Naum, Ada Rohovtseva, Halyna Dovhozvyaha and Nikolai Kozlenko

The protagonists of the film meet at the Republican Agricultural Exhibition of Advanced Practices in Kyiv. Among them is Pavel Zarechny, a talented plant breeder, passionately devoted to his work, and Timofey Khizhnyak, the director of a scientific testing station, for whom personal gain is the ultimate goal in life. Also present are Dasha, Zarechny’s lab assistant, who becomes his love, and Dyachenko, a fellow scientist whose envy of Pavel’s success leads him to forget about decency and honor...