Moscow, 2020. The media warn that a dangerous meteorite will soon sweep near the Earth at great speed. But the wealthy restaurateur Vadim does not care, so he does not change his plans and hurries to celebrate the purchase of a new establishment. On the way to the restaurant, Vadim calls his friend Nina to invite her to a banquet. But due to a time anomaly associated with a meteorite, another Nina, a thirteen-year-old girl who is dying of starvation in cold Moscow in 1942, picks up the phone on the other end.
Acting
Sofia Lebedeva's voice carries eighty years of hunger and hope.
Direction
Abolmasov makes 28 minutes feel like a lifetime — then rips it away.
Writing
The phone as portal: simple premise, brutal execution.
Director
Dmitry Abolmasov
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Siege of Leningrad killed 800,000+ by starvation; Russian cinema rarely addresses it with this intimate scale.
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