Trata sobre un abuelo y su nieto, perdidos en el fin del mundo de una Siberia deshumanizada, y rodeados de ladrones sin escrúpulos y perros salvajes, en mitad del crudo invierno ruso y prácticamente sin víveres para subsistir.
The girl cut off her braid and went wherever she looked - to look for the groom. She is joined by a strange old man dressed in a transparent raincoat. There is a scythe about three blades on Grandfather's shoulder. He persistently pulls the girl "to the church" - to baptize someone, and the "first comer" should be the godfather. "I can't go to church," the girl objects. - There's a young, funny father there. I will laugh at him..." So she follows the old man past a blooming meadow, along a fast, cold river... Weaves a wreath along the way, decorating it with colored ostrich feathers caught from the water. A lot of events will happen along the way - one is more incomprehensible than the other, and then there will be a wedding and girls in embroidered sundresses with songs will carry garlands of hay on their shoulders with ribbons, red plows will float down the river, and in the foreground is a girl with a groom.
Película de encargo para celebrar el 40 aniversario de la victoria aliada en la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Relata, a través de los ojos de un niño progresivamente endurecido por el sufrimiento, la matanza sistemática de los habitantes de las aldeas bielorrusas, más de 600, durante la guerra.
A judge is devastated after the death of his wife and is neglectful of his children. His son befriends the children of a street beggar who live in an abandoned, derelict church. After his experience with his new friends, the young boy begins to feel sorry for his father and sympathizes with his loneliness.
