Elena Girenok

The young and talented photographer Maxim Kaverin has a good life: an interesting work, the beautiful wife Olga. Suddenly he receives an order for a series of shots of one of the old houses of the city. The hero goes to take pictures and does not suspect what tragedy is going towards.

1942, dans la France occupée, Gilles est arrêté pour être déporté dans un camp en Allemagne. Juste avant de se faire fusiller, il échappe à la mort en jurant aux soldats qu'il n’est pas juif mais persan. Ce mensonge le sauve momentanément puisque l’un des chefs du camp souhaite apprendre le farsi pour ses projets d’après-guerre. Au risque de se faire prendre, Gilles invente une langue chaque nuit, pour l'enseigner au capitaine SS le lendemain. La relation particulière qui se crée entre les deux hommes ne tarde pas à éveiller la jalousie et les soupçons des autres...

A small mining village of Kamenny, the 90s. Everyone here knows the legend about the Mistress of the mountain — the green-eyed Princess Maria Tumanova, the former owner of the emerald mines, who received the nickname Basilisk. Tumanova hid her treasures in the village, and before her death cursed everyone who dared to take possession of them... For many years, the locals even pronounce the name of the princess with caution. And only 17-year-old beauty Alyonka Koshkina defiantly defies the witchcraft of the Basilisk. On the same day, the girl's father finds a jewelry box in the mine. This discovery brings nothing but misfortune to the inhabitants. Who can resist witchcraft and bring back happiness and love?