Yevgeniy Morozov
Several years ago, a successful businessman Andrei learned that one of his three daughters was not from him. He divorced his wife and obtained full custody of the children, prohibiting his ex-wife from approaching them. Everything was going well, until one day Andrei was diagnosed with a terrible diagnosis: he has cancer, and he has a few months to live. He understands that girls need a mother, otherwise no one will take care of them after his death. Andrei proposes to his girlfriend, but then accidentally meets his ex-wife and understands that he still loves her.
The year is 1930. In a small Tartar village, a woman named Zuleikha watches as her husband is murdered by communists. Zuleikha herself is sent into exile, enduring a horrendous train journey to a remote spot on the Angara River in Siberia. Conditions in the camp are tough, and many of her group do not survive the first difficult winter. As she gradually settles into a routine, Zuleikha starts to get to know her companions. The eclectic group includes a rather dotty doctor, an artist who paints on the sly, and Ignatov, Zuleikha's husband's killer. A screen version of the best-selling novel by Guzel Yakhina.
Nikolay Morozov has been both a revolutionary and a terrorist in his long life. Sentenced to a lifetime of hard labour, he spent 30 years in a tsarist prison. His hair had long turned grey by the time the Second World War broke out, but when he realised his country needed him he volunteered for the army. Nikolay was 87 at the time.
