Yury Mokienko

During the Soviet-Afghan War, in the days when general secretary of the Communist Party Leonid Breznev, in a military hospital a young lieutenant wounded almost to death meets a young military nurse, tired almost to death. One meeting. One night. One candle. A short from Vladimir Koptsev, Alexander Sokurov’s pupil.

During the Soviet-Afghan War, in the days when general secretary of the Communist Party Leonid Breznev, in a military hospital a young lieutenant wounded almost to death meets a young military nurse, tired almost to death. One meeting. One night. One candle. A short from Vladimir Koptsev, Alexander Sokurov’s pupil.

Somewhere among the panel high-rise buildings the author met a strange boy – Mitya Elizarov. Why did they meet, what did it lead to, and was it for real?

The elder brother watches his younger sibling growing up.

Somewhere among the panel high-rise buildings the author met a strange boy – Mitya Elizarov. Why did they meet, what did it lead to, and was it for real?

A documentary comedy about a father, a son and a large family living in a Russian village in the middle of nowhere.

A documentary comedy about a father, a son and a large family living in a Russian village in the middle of nowhere.

The first Chechen war broke Russia in the mid-nineties. The war was lost, the country and the army was damaged. The recovery turned out to be incredibly difficult. Former soldiers - veterans of the famous "Wild Brigade" - cope with this trauma as best they can. For example, with their own hands and at their own expense, they decide to build a monument to fallen comrades at the gates of their long-abandoned military unit. Over and over again, they remind themselves of what they have experienced, not understanding how to break out of this vicious circle of war memories that still determine their whole life. A vicious circle in which not only a person can get lost, but the whole country can get lost by repeating the history and unleashing senseless wars.