A touching story of the relationship between two teenagers who accidentally met in besieged Leningrad. Masha and Sergey are fighting hunger and death. She reads the book about the Nutcracker and the Mouse King over and over again, and the words of this story help her to be stronger, and he plays...
August 1960. Director Nikolai Berentsev is working on a large-scale science fiction film about an expedition to Venus. The construction of grandiose decorations begins in the pavilion. Berentsev himself develops models of planets and spacecraft, comes up with special devices for combined filming....
The end of the 19th century. The girl Varya cannot sleep because she has to lull a crying child to sleep. An icon looks at her from the corner opposite. The warm image of the infant Christ beckons and promises another life. But he never comes to the rescue. And the living baby in the cradle...
