Igor Donskoy

En Russie, durant l’été 1400. Trois moines peintres d'icônes, Kyrill, Daniil et Roublev, désireux de travailler à la décoration de l’église de l’Annonciation de Moscou, se rendent chez le célèbre peintre Théophane le Grec dans l’espoir d'obtenir sa recommandation. Seule la candidature de Roublev est retenue. Au cours de son voyage, l’homme, qui n’avait illustré jusque-là que la beauté spirituelle, découvre la terrible condition des hommes et s’interroge sur le sens qu’il doit donner à son travail. Huit ans plus tard, Roublev exécute avec Daniil les peintures murales de la cathédrale de la Dormition de Vladimir…

UN's The Committee of 19 sends six scientists to investigate a biological outbreak in Africa.

...1949. Baulin, a school principal in a small Moldovan town, is summoned at night to the district party committee. He is tasked with leading a group that is carrying out an action in the area to evict so-called fascist collaborators. We will see only a day in the life of the main character. He walks around the huts, sees people included in the “black lists”, understands that they could not possibly be traitors.

The film is set during the last summer before the Great Patriotic War. Three sisters are coming to stay with their grandmother in the village. They imagine the world as a vast and charming "Garden of desires" and all members of the household are waiting for Asya's birthday. Asya has a sense of foreboding regarding the impending grief. Guests come to visit but none of them are her parents. She still does not know that her father was declared an enemy of the people, that tomorrow she will not see her mother and that the war is approaching.