Varlam Shalamov. Young experience

In 1994, on the initiative of Perm rock musician Oleg Novoselov, a charitable collection of rock music artists "Songs for Tani M" was created. Funds from its implementation were aimed at the construction of a children's cancer center in Perm. Tanya M., Tanya Modina, was among the children who were treated for a terrible illness. Then she was 7 years old, children were shot on an amateur camera, and Tanya became a "face from the cover" of the disc. In the anniversary of that charity event, the widow of Oleg Novoselov, Lena decides to find Tanya, who should be 22 today. And he finds ... in a female colony, where she fell for a robbery...

In 1916, 26-year-old Boris Pasternak came to visit the family of chemist Boris Zbarsky, at that time the manager of the Morozov factories. Impressions from the trip were included in Pasternak's lyrical poems and determined the writer's further creative path. Perm became the prototype of the city of Yuryatin in the novel "Doctor Zhivago".

In 1942, the Ural Volunteer Tank Corps entered the battle on the Oryol-Kursk Bulge. It is the only corps in the world created with money collected on a voluntary basis. Those who assembled these tanks fought in it. The competition for the right to fight in the corps was 14 people per seat. In the first battles at Oryol, every third soldier of almost 3,000 Perm soldiers died. Such was the bitter price of the victory. After the Kursk Bulge, Perm tankers took part in the liberation of Lvov, Poland, Berlin, Prague. Who are they, Perm participants of these battles? What did they look like, what did they think and what did they dream about?

The fate of the heroine of the film Olga Glazatova. The viewer gets to know her in the last weeks before her release from the general regime colony, where she gave birth to a daughter at the age of 18. The way of life, customs, customs of the women's zone, in which the painfully familiar features of our "free" life manifest themselves, where Olya is so eager, make up the background of the heroine's portrait. The warm, kind intonation of the film awakens what we all lack so much – sympathy.

When the ambitious dream of a guy from the province about an acting career collides with a cruel reality, most often there is a drama or tragedy. The plot of the film is based on the traditional conflict for the Russian provincial theater: everyone dreams of the role of Hamlet. But if a person is a comedian by nature? What kind of play will the dramaturgy of life push him into? In the credits, the film is designated as "a tragicomedy from the life of artists."