Mariia Mykolaichuk

The events of the film take place in the Soviet Union in the early 1980s. It is forbidden to listen to foreign radio stations, it is not safe to voice one’s opinions in front of strangers. Words of truth are spoken only in private kitchens behind the curtained windows. The KGB tap phones, survey the ‘unreliable’ and consistently step by step destroy all forms of decent. The protagonists challenge the inhumane state machine, putting on stake their very lives and proving that nothing and nobody can stop a person who is on his way to achieve a true freedom.

The Great Patriotic War. 1945 year. There are fights for the city on the Danube. The river is mined by the Germans, and this fetters the action of our troops. In addition, a city with a million people was left without food. And downstream are Soviet food barges. The command instructs the reconnaissance group a difficult and dangerous operation — to obtain from the enemy a map of the mined sections of the river, which requires penetrating into the city captured by the Germans.

Folk comedy that tells the adventures of Ukrainian cossacks Vasyl and Andriy as they set out on a long journey to deliver a letter from their leader to the Russian empress in St. Petersburg.

Alex, an experienced surgeon, makes a mistake in the diagnosis of his seven-year-old godson. The boy dies on the operating table. Stunned, the man tenders his resignation. One autumn morning he is sitting on the riverbank in a favourite place where he used to fish with his godson. Suddenly he notices the figure of a shapely semi-naked girl emerging from the fog. She is shivering with cold. Alex spontaneously offers his help, and thus becomes part of an incredible adventure story.

1939, en Bukovine. Liess, le sonneur, est trop pauvre pour élever ses nombreux enfants. Aussi , il va « vendre » au village ses quatre fils aînés pour subvenir aux besoins de la famille. Le pope achète le plus jeune, Gueorgui. Mais la guerre commence, et l'Armée rouge abat le poteau-frontière, signe de l'annexion de la région à l'Ukraine. Citoyens soviétiques, les frères sont devenus frères ennemis : Orest rejoint les « bandes noires » fascistes, Piotr choisit l'uniforme russe. Dana, la fille du pope, doit épouser un soldat soviétique, mais Orest l'enlève et s'enfuit dans les Carpates. Un incendie perpétré par les fascistes détruit l'isba de Liess. Les violences barbares se multiplient. Puis la paix revient, difficilement. Gueorgui revient, jeune médecin, et s'installe au village. Il est l'homme blanc sans aucune tache noire.