Rostislav Alimov

In a former mining town in North Ossetia, a young woman struggles to escape the stifling hold of the family she loves as much as she rejects.

In a former mining town in North Ossetia, a young woman struggles to escape the stifling hold of the family she loves as much as she rejects.

Tonya is a bus-driver in a village on the outskirts of Nalchik, a modest city in the republic of Kabardino-Balkaria. Together with her daughter, Tonya is eagerly awaiting the return of her only son, who is fighting for a Russian private military contractor in Syria. When Tonya is told that he has been killed in action, she refuses to believe it. She is sure that there was a mistake and her son is alive. She begins a grueling public battle with the contractor and the authorities, demanding the return of her son. When it becomes obvious that all efforts to silence Tonya are fruitless, a strange young man arrives on her doorstep...

Tonya is a bus-driver in a village on the outskirts of Nalchik, a modest city in the republic of Kabardino-Balkaria. Together with her daughter, Tonya is eagerly awaiting the return of her only son, who is fighting for a Russian private military contractor in Syria. When Tonya is told that he has been killed in action, she refuses to believe it. She is sure that there was a mistake and her son is alive. She begins a grueling public battle with the contractor and the authorities, demanding the return of her son. When it becomes obvious that all efforts to silence Tonya are fruitless, a strange young man arrives on her doorstep...

In the center of the plot children's writer Valentin Shubin, accustomed to live in seclusion. His books about the elephant Mishka, written in his youth, enjoyed great success both at home and abroad. A series of random events causes a new surge of interest in the personality and creativity of the writer-introvert. Adults and young readers waiting for new books, but Shubin them does not want to write.

Na Leningrado de 1945, Iya e Masha são duas jovens mulheres em busca de esperança e significado em meios aos destroços deixados na Rússia após a Segunda Guerra Mundial. O cerco de Leningrado, um dos mais brutais da história, chegou ao fim, mas reconstruir suas vidas permanece uma situação cercada de morte e trauma.

Kate Davis (Mira Sorvino), uma jovem jornalista inglesa, é enviada a trabalho para Leningrado. A Segunda Guerra Mundial está no seu auge, os nazistas já dominam metade da Europa e parte de Rússia, mas falham em Leningrado. Ao perceber que não conseguiria tomar a cidade à força, Hitler monta uma estratégia extremamente desumana. Cerca Leningrado, bloqueando o acesso de mantimentos, com o objetivo de matar de fome mais de três milhões de pessoas. Em meio a este cerco do horror, Kate e a população local, precisam tentar de todas as maneiras sobreviver e não sucumbir à fome e ao domínio do nazismo, na batalha mais cruel da Segunda Guerra Mundial.