Mysterious and terrible events take place at the Russian Pearl beauty contest from year to year. The first winner of the contest tragically died, the second was splashed with boiling resin in her eyes. And now the participant who reached the semifinals, Natasha Titrova, who came from Tomsk, has...
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...
During an air raid the girl accidentally loses the daily bread ration. A strange old woman picks it up. the woman is death herself carrying scissors which she uses to cut the thread of life of people dying in the besieged city. but at the last moment death saves the girl.
