For Ian Golovin, the death of his father is the chance at a new life outside his native country. As he prepares to leave and bid farewell to his sister, he is forced to face his decision — why he is always blindly moving forward and what he is leaving behind.
A man comes back from war to his home village with a burnt face. What awaits him at his home which he hadn't seen for so long? Will he be able to get back his old life?
FALLING is a story about the post-revolutionary generation of young Ukrainian people looking for their place in a modern Ukraine. It follows two bewildered people who meet at a crucial moment of their existence and experience few days of happiness together.
Lyudmila Pavlichenko es una joven estudiante rusa que, durante la guerra, se vio obligada a alistarse en el ejército en el año 1941. La chica resultó ser una francotirador nata; su impresionante habilidad y destreza la hacen destacar entre hombres y mujeres por igual. Al ver en Pavlichenko una amenaza tangible, el alto mando alemán da ordenes de eliminar a la muchacha a cualquier precio.
Despite himself, a doctor has to go with his young patient in the mountains. He will never forget this trip. Through a "mise en abyme" of the filmic process by an original method that reveals what the protagonist is filming, we are constantly rocked between the freshness of the film and the drama being played.
In the early eighteenth century, foreign rule means dark times for the Hutsuls of the Carpathians. The two Dovbush brothers become opryshkos - mountain outlaws. But the two brothers become enemies - one cares only about money, the other - Oleksa - fights for his people. The Carpathians are convulsed with a wave of uprisings. The aristocracy uses its military might to try to kill Dovbush and destroy his legend. But Dovbush outwits them. The desperate lords devise a devious plan and attack the invincible outlaw's Achilles heel - his love for his childhood sweetheart, Marichka. Who will be the assassin to attack the Opryshko whose immense strength and bravery inspired folk tales? Will the lords' treacherous plan destroy the hero before he can lead his people to freedom?
