Vasili Bykov

Relatives

1942, a remote village in the rear. Sixteen-year-old Semka decides to volunteer for the partisans. Irina seeks to keep her son by force. However, the only one she can turn to for help is her nephew, a policeman. The movie is based on the story of the same name by Vasil Bykov.

In the Fog

Western frontiers of the USSR, 1942. The region is under German occupation. A man is wrongly accused of collaboration. Desperate to save his dignity, he faces an impossible moral choice.

On Black Slash-and-Burn Fields

A group of Belarusian anti-Soviet insurgents from the failed Slutsk Defence Action wanders through forests, fleeing the from the surrounding Bolshevik army. To escape captivity or death in battle with a subsequent identification of their bodies and retaliation against their families, the insurgents decide to commit group suicide in a place hidden from the Bolsheviks.

Sand-Pit

The wounded officer Alexei Ageev was picked up in the forest by partisans and hidden in the priest’s house. The young townswoman Maria was also hiding there. A policeman who knew everyone who lived in the village, having met Ageev, did not hand him over to the Gestapo, but invited him to become an informant...

Sign of Disaster

A woman defends during World War II her home and her family against Hitler's soldiers.

The Ascent

Two Soviet partisans leave their starving band to get supplies from a nearby farm. The Germans have reached the farm first, so the pair must go on a journey deep into occupied territory, a voyage that will also take them deep into their souls.

To Survive Until Dawn

On December 6, 1941, the troops of the Western Front launched an offensive near Moscow. And before that, in the autumn of 1941, when the fascists were at Moscow, ten soldiers under the command of a lieutenant went into the enemy terrain to blow up the ammunition base.

To Survive Until Dawn

On December 6, 1941, the troops of the Western Front launched an offensive near Moscow. And before that, in the autumn of 1941, when the fascists were at Moscow, ten soldiers under the command of a lieutenant went into the enemy terrain to blow up the ammunition base.

Wolves Pack

A story about few partisans hiding in the Belorussian woods and fighting German Army during WWII.

Wolves Pack

A story about few partisans hiding in the Belorussian woods and fighting German Army during WWII.

Alpine Ballad

A romantic tale set during WW2 between a Soviet (Belarusian) soldier and Italian girl, who try to escape the horrors together.

Alpine Ballad

A romantic tale set during WW2 between a Soviet (Belarusian) soldier and Italian girl, who try to escape the horrors together.

The Third Flare

A story about one of the hard days of WWII based on the novel by Vasiliy Bykov.