Born and raised in Riga, Vera Mukhina was happy to leave behind her upper-class heritage. She studied with Emil-Antoine Bourdelle, a pupil of Rodin, in Paris, travelled to Italy to study the work of Michelangelo, worked as a nurse in a military hospital during World War I – and sided with the Soviet Union after 1917. Vera Mukhina believed in the "new human", and like no other she knew how to depict the same: At the 1937 world exhibition in Paris she created a colossal iron sculpture: "Worker and Kokhoz Woman", 34 metres high and weighing 75 tonnes. The heroic couple was the work of an utterly unheroic woman. The impressive black and white film that Ilone Bruver has made about Vera Mukhina is based on her personal diaries and shows an artist at work with the subjects of the times. The private, re-enacted passages augment the documentary material extremely well. "Version Vera" is not just a biographical study, but the documentation of an epoch.