Release, runtime and language

1999 · 100 mins · Russian

Directed by

Denis Evstigneev

Starring

Roman Madyanov, Vladimir Mashkov, Andrei Panin, Oleg Menshikov, Evgeny Mironov, Maksim Sukhanov

After her husband is jailed for stealing charcoal and dies escaping, Polina, mother of six, forms a folk band. She later steals a plane to go abroad, is captured, and spends fifteen years in prison. Release finds her children scattered—a soldier, a miner, and Lyonchik, who pretends madness. Polina reunites them to free older brother from hospital.