As a seven-year-old boy, he once visited his uncle for the first time and was captivated by the beauty of the taiga. Years later, becoming a biology student, the hero comes to these places and receives the first lessons of morality in communicating with the natural world... Having once witnessed a...
Varvara and Pavel Zhdanov did not live long together. The war broke out and Pavel went to the front, and a hard, exhausting job at a metallurgical plant fell on the shoulders of a young woman...
A few days after the unconditional surrender of German troops, a group of Soviet soldiers is billeted at a farmyard which the war somehow never seems to have reached. This apparently peaceful picture is eerily undermined when the Red Army soldiers are confronted with the full extent of Nazi terror.