Oleg Shapko

Un juge, ayant récemment perdu sa femme, navigue entre dépit et irritation, obsédé par ses souvenirs. Pendant ce temps son fils, qui aspire à quitter la maison familiale, rencontre de nouveaux amis.

The girl cut off her braid and went wherever she looked - to look for the groom. She is joined by a strange old man dressed in a transparent raincoat. There is a scythe about three blades on Grandfather's shoulder. He persistently pulls the girl "to the church" - to baptize someone, and the "first comer" should be the godfather. "I can't go to church," the girl objects. - There's a young, funny father there. I will laugh at him..." So she follows the old man past a blooming meadow, along a fast, cold river... Weaves a wreath along the way, decorating it with colored ostrich feathers caught from the water. A lot of events will happen along the way - one is more incomprehensible than the other, and then there will be a wedding and girls in embroidered sundresses with songs will carry garlands of hay on their shoulders with ribbons, red plows will float down the river, and in the foreground is a girl with a groom.

Having learned that the empty monastery is facing a thorough reconstruction, the architect decides to capture it alone and prepare design documentation for the restoration of this monument of history and culture. But the monastery turns out to be far from empty. Besides him, a strange old woman also lives in the house.

Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Fliora, jeune garçon d'un village de Biélorussie occupé par les troupes nazies, s'engage, bien que trop jeune, chez les partisans. Il va découvrir l'amour, la fraternité, la souffrance, la guerre.

Monamour, hameau abandonné dans les étendues infinies de la Sibérie. En compagnie de son dévot grand-père et d'un chien pour seul ami, le jeune Lyochka attend le retour de son père. Mais les vivres viennent à manquer quand son oncle, venant régulièrement les ravitailler d'un lointain village, ne donne plus signe de vie. Affaiblis et de plus en plus isolés par la neige, le vieil homme et son petit fils doivent bientôt faire face aux pilleurs et aux chiens sauvages...