2008-06-26 • 1h 40m

Based on Valentin Rasputin's story of the same title. The winter of 1945. In a village on the Angara embankment the women wait the return of their husbands from the front. The young soldier Andrei Guskov, who fled from the hospital, returns as a deserter. In his remote winter hut only his wife Nastena visits him : she is the only person whom he can trust with his life - of an eternal fugitive doomed to loneliness. Only she loves him. She lives in the present, remembers the past and does not believe in the future. She will have a child, and to the entire village she is an unfaithful wife who did not wait for her husband to return...

Directors

Aleksandr Proshkin

Writters

Aleksandr Proshkin, Alexandr Rodionov

Editors

Aleksandr Proshkin, Alexandr Rodionov, Natalya Kucherenko