The protagonist Andrii Dovzhenko finds out a horrible truth, that has been hidden in USSR for years - most of those accused of «anti-Soviet propaganda» were never sent to prison, but to special psychiatric hospitals with a diagnosis of "slow progressive schizophrenia". Andrii finds himself in a real hell of punitive psychiatry and faces a difficult choice - to cooperate with the KGB and return to his family, or to reveal the truth about dissidents tortured in such psychiatric hospitals. The script was based on the memoirs of Soviet dissidents who faced the brutality of a totalitarian system that used so-called "punitive psychiatry" as a weapon against free thought.
Sasha manages a firm that installs tombstones at the local cemetery. His many customers have all experienced personal tragedies, but he is full of cynicism. One day, Sasha's 14-year-old daughter appears to bring him back into her life.
How many Yamil remembers himself, war has always been. He is very much waiting for it to end - after all, then the father will return, whom the boy knows only from photographs and letters. One day, Mom leaves for a distant city and brings the silent girl Oksana with her. Mum transmits the order of his father to take care of Oksana, as if he was a little sister ... A film adaptation of the story “The Joy of Our Home” by the classic of Soviet literature Mustay Karim.
This is a metaphorical story about the tragic and mysterious death of the most powerful poet of 1960s, human rights activist, hero of Ukraine Vasyl Stus and his struggle with the Soviet system. The events of the film unfold during the last attempt by the KGB to seduce the poet with a whimsical "freedom".
1917년 러시아 제국의 붕괴로 우크라이나는 독립 공화국을 설립한다. 하지만 이듬해인 1918년, 레닌이 이끄는 볼셰비키당의 붉은 군대는 우크라이나의 수도인 키예프를 차지하기 위해 전쟁을 선포한다. 이에 대항하기 위해 우크라이나는 학군단을 모집하고, 평범한 대학생이던 안드리, 발레리, 그레고리는 학도병에 자원한다. 고작 300여 명에 불과한 학도병들은 우크라이나의 자유와 독립을 지키기 위해 이들은 키예프에 있는 크루티 역에서 무라뵤프가 이끄는 4천 여명의 군사와 목숨을 걸고 맞서 싸운다.
