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2009 · 88 mins · Russian
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Directed by
Igor Voloshin
Starring
Mikhail Evlanov, Oksana Akinshina, Evgeniy Tkachuk, Aleksey Filimonov, Roman Radov, Artur Smolyaninov

Following a young Russian man in the early 1990s, he avoids conscription by hiding in a psychiatric clinic. After years of compulsory treatment he is released, meets a documentary filmmaker and is drawn into the Chechen war, where a near‑fatal incident occurs. Reflecting on his past, he sees his story echo his generation’s fate.

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