The story of trust and its absence against the background of events unfolding in Eastern Ukraine in early 2014. The main topic is revealed through the prism of the Luhansk border base, whose fighters the separatists and Russian special services tried unsuccessfully force to betray their country.
O ano é 1241. A horda mongol liderada pelo cruel khan Batu se move para o oeste, destruindo tudo em seu caminho. Chegando às montanhas dos Cárpatos, as tropas acampam logo abaixo. No entanto, à noite, vários caçadores locais, os irmãos Berkut, entram secretamente no acampamento e libertam os reféns. Consumido de raiva, o cã decide se vingar e destruir os assentamentos dos Cárpatos. Um traidor entre os moradores diz aos mongóis sobre uma passagem secreta dentro das montanhas. No entanto, um pequeno grupo de caçadores de montanha liderados por Zakhar Berkut tem seu próprio plano para deter a horda inimiga de uma vez por todas..
1939 . A young Ukrainian-American man Yaro comes to the Carpathian Mountains, because his father left him a fortune under the condition that he would marry a Ukrainian girl. There Yaro meets a Hutsul girl Ksenya and has to rethink his plan.
This gorgeous movie—artfully composed in a muted sandy palette with exquisite attention to visual detail—takes place on the shores of the Black Sea in Crimea, where a group of neighbors seek tranquility and fulfillment fishing and striving to live lives of meaning, outside the bustle and cynicism of city life. This is a film about universal themes of human interaction and love and explores the full range of human desires and relationships. Such Beautiful People is a gentle story of gentle people striving to make their lives better, to find true happiness, and to better understand one another. (via cinema.indiana.edu)
