The Falling (1993)

Village Khoroshee in the Siberian outback. Here the hero of the film lives and works as an ambulance driver. At the gate of his house is a small plane in which our hero once tries to take off ...

As a result of an accident that took place while he was orbiting Earth, astronaut Maxim Bortnikov finds himself alone in outer space. Anna, a crisis operator, gets in touch with Maxim and offers to get him to a ship that has a rescue capsule. Maxim will have to pass intense challenges which will be a test of his survival skills and knowledge of outer space. As a result, he will find out who Anna really is and why she helped him survive.

Surrounded by a few party officials, Alexei Ivanov, a stakhanovist smelter, is decorated by Stalin. The "Little Father of the Peoples" takes this opportunity to invoke threats of war.... One day, war indeed breaks out. Bombs fall on the field where Alexei finds himself in the company of the schoolmistress Natacha, his fiancée. Alexei joins the Red Army and soon becomes a sergeant. Fighting rages and German troops advance. Natacha is arrested and deported. But the tide turns decisively with the German defeat at Stalingrad. Now the major offensive against Hitler can begin.