Military doctor General Klenski is arrested in Stalin's Russia in 1953 during an anti-Semitic political campaign accused of being a participant in so-called "doctors' plot".

　　Coming as it does from the depths of the Stalinist regime, the Russian Road to Life is a remarkably optimistic film. A host of nonprofessional children are cast as Moscow street kids, left homeless by the Bolshevik revolution. They get into all sorts of melodramatic scrapes until they're rounded up by kindly, altruistic Soviet functionaries. The children are reformed (in the nicest possible way) and made useful members of society. Road to Life is simplistic in its solutions to society's problems, albeit no more so than the usual Hollywood product from the same period.

　　这是一部以斯大林格勒保卫战为题材的故事片。该片获1946年戛纳国际电影节特别大奖，获1946年苏联国家奖金。它的特点是战斗场面很少，绝大部分戏是在指挥部的狭小房间内展开的，主人公是红军高级司令员，因此有关辩论说，这部影片创造一种“新的心理影片”类型。