A Soviet era ideological drama based on Nikolai Ostrovsky's famous novel "How Steel Was Tempered". A Soviet era ideological drama based on Nikolai Ostrovsky's famous novel "How Steel Was Tempered". A Soviet era ideological drama based on Nikolai Ostrovsky's famous novel "How Steel Was Tempered". A Soviet era ideological drama based on Nikolai Ostrovsky's famous novel "How Steel Was Tempered".