该影片改编自鲍里斯·瓦西里耶夫的同名小6080yy。1941年6月21日，年轻的中尉科利亚·普卢日尼科夫接到调往布列斯特永久服役的命令。拥挤的车站洋溢着欢欣的希望，这并未让年轻人感到不安。科利亚匆匆赶往他所在部队的驻地——布列斯特要塞。凌晨4点，炮声响起——战争爆发了。他虽未编入布列斯特要塞的军事人员序列，但仍参加了他人生中的第一场战斗，这场战斗持续了十个月。

Young Ivan Drago's newfound love of board games catapults him into the fantastical and competitive world of game invention, and pits him against the inventor Morodian, who has long desired to destroy the city of Zyl, founded by Ivan's grandfather. To save his family and defeat Morodian, Ivan must come to know what it is to be a true Games Maker.

This is a very bizarre fairy tale. It commences with a wedding and singing and dancing but nearly the whole village is wiped out by wolves. The bride gives birth to a daughter several months later and promises her to the boy who saved her.　　Ten years later there is another disruption when Some circus folk come by and the villagers trick them into staying. Tragedy ensues...　　This has a strange cast, dwarfs, giants, priests and occasional intrusions from the modern world in the form of the police and a wonderer who returns bringing to the village the good news of Nostradamus. It is a long film but it honestly does not drag. and if you get bored of the plot you can always look at the sumptuous Countryside.