Boris Bechet

The essence and moral of the Moldovian people living the rural life of the 90's. A film about people being materialstic, and losing it all in the end, Tarkovsky style.

A young man from Moldova is lured to work abroad in Moscow, expecting to be working in a hospital he faces a different reality and the choice between staying or leaving, what is good and what is not, what is moral and what is normal – is a choice always in front of him.

Căpălău, a peasant in a village near Brăila, tries to keep up with the turns of life. Based on "Ningea în Bărăgan” novel by Fănuș Neagu.

A Moldovan village in the late forties. Andrei Brume, a Komsomol member, university student and MGB lieutenant, is on a mission to fight a criminal gang. The situation is extremely dramatic. On the one hand, there are night raids by Stratan's gang, on the other - endless official extortion, respectfully referred to as a "state loan", when the chairman of the collective farm, Maria Josan, groping the trigger of a revolver, calls on hard workers to respond to the call of the Motherland...

The 1940s. Sandu, an open, honest and direct hairdresser, falls into the hands of repressive authorities. Memories of his love help the hero to survive all this horror.

The fates of two women: Ilinka, a member of the partisan movement, the mother of two adopted children; Varvara— the chairman of the collective farm, secretary of the district party committee...

Vlad Voiku, a police captain and investigator for particularly important cases of the republic's Interior Ministry, is single-handedly fighting the local mafia. Vlad believes in the power of the law. But over time, it becomes clear that corruption has penetrated into the highest echelons of power. And then Vlad commits a desperate act...

Panoramic life of a Moldovan village in the second half of the twentieth century.