A 73-minute Soviet fever dream where war's shadow falls on children too young to name it.
Summer 1943. Tajikistan. The front line is very far away, but the war also affects here - trains of the evacuated and wounded arrive here, and trains of recruits go to the front. Home life is also difficult, the selfless work of women and children for the needs of the front, in need of everything, in basic things in a peaceful life, the scarcity and high cost of products in the markets
Cinematography
Tajik landscapes shot like memory itself—hazy, urgent, fading.
Direction
Kasymova's debut: women's gaze on war's domestic front.
Director
Margarita Kasymova
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
One of the first feature films from Soviet Central Asia directed by a woman, made during the Thaw period's brief experimentation.
Miravzal Mirshakarov was a celebrated Tajik actor; this was his rare screen appearance in a director's debut that nearly vanished from archives.
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