Montage film, chronicle of the three days of the August 1991 putsch in Moscow: On August 19, 1991 at 6:30 a.m. local time, a group of putschists, led by Yanaev, attempted to seize power in the USSR. Facing them were the brand new president Boris Yeltsin, his prime minister Ivan Silaev and a large number of Muscovites who took refuge in parliament.
