2008 Drama
Kazakhstan/Russia/Poland
1h 37min
Original language: Russian, Kazakh, Hebrew
Set in Kazakhstan in 1949, during a time when minorities were forced to move to central Asia by the former Soviet government. A Jewish kid named Sashka is on a train with his grandfather, being deported with others. His grandfather dies on the train and he has to get off with the body at a small village. He meets an old man, Kasym, and stays with him. But the tragedy is upon the village. Every villager is killed and only Sashka survived.
Directed by | Rustem Abdrashitov |
Written by | Pavel Finn |