The film is about the life and work of Grigory Ordzhonikidze Konstantinoviche an important personality in both the Communist Party and the Soviet state The film includes speeches by his bereaved friends who attended his funeral In 1937 after the unexpected death of Sergo Ordzhonikidze Vertov received an urgent order from the government to produce a film about the life of Ordzhonikidze He was ordered to work together with Yakov Bliohom and the director of the film Battleship Potemkin distributed by Goskino Soviet State Committee for Cinematography