La colegiala de Leningrado de ayer, Masha Yablochkina, después de un feroz bloqueo de invierno de 1941-1942, llega a las vías del tren con la esperanza de sobrevivir y ganar fuerza. Desde allí, la niña es enviada a la construcción de la carretera Shlisselburg, que conecta la ciudad con el continente y está a la vista de la artillería alemana. Entonces, la heroína ingresa a la columna de locomotoras 48 de la reserva especial NKPS, que, a costa del riesgo mortal, tendrá que entregar el 75% de toda la carga y el equipo militar a Leningrado.
Every day, they steal your strength, your emotions, your love. We call them the Shadow. Work like us - to deliver them back to the Dark World. Impending disaster, and humanity can be at the mercy of darkness ... And only we can keep the balance
The thirties, the heyday of Soviet film production.
The story of the famed couple's glory — a filmmaker and actress, behind the external well-being of which were hidden strange contradictory relationships and a sense of fear that they carried through their whole lives.
The prologue to this story is the 85th anniversary of Lidiya Polyakova, the formerly brightest star in Soviet cinema, who played the main role in all the films of her own husband, director Konstantin Dalmatov. Now in the courtyard there are other times, Dalmatov’s movies are called ideological agitation, and the director himself and his wife are hiding from the world in the country, trying not to let anyone in.
Before the audience, there is a story of a dizzying triumph of this cinematic couple and its behind-the-scenes drama — a story that began in the 30s of the XX century.
La Guerra Del Norte (1700- 1721). Luis XIV, Rey de Francia, destierra a dos duelistas: a uno de ellos lo envía con Carlos XII (1697-1718), rey de los suecos, y el otro marcha a Rusia con el Zar Pedro I (1689-1725). Ambos soldados serán testigos desde bandos opuestos de la gran batalla de Poltava (1709), en la que los suecos sufrieron una gran derrota. Gracias a esta guerra, Rusia logró el libre acceso al mar Báltico a través de San Petersburgo, ciudad fundada por Pedro I.
