A Russian engineer Petr Garin possesses a unique beam-shooting weapon that can destroy any target. His goal is to achieve world domination with the help of this weapon. Vasily Shelga is out to stop him and also to prevent others getting possession of this weapon.

Aleksandr Ginstburg's "The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin" is a black-and-white 1965 Soviet science fiction film based on Aleksey Tolstoy's novel (1927) of the same name.