Movies: Rodion Avramenko

The story of the Podolsk cadets’ heroic stand outside Moscow in October 1941. Cadets were sent to the Ilyinsky line, fighting alongside units from the Soviet 43rd Army to hold back the German advance until reinforcements arrived. Hopelessly outnumber...

Moscow. 1937. Thirteen-year-old Nikita is on the threshold of adolescence. He is full of hopes and dreams, which are interrupted at dawn by an insistent knock at the door. NKVD officers have come for his father. Nikita's parents task him with getting...

Junior Sergeant Komarov is driving a detainee, Grisha, to the station for formal documentation. Along the way, the officer learns the details of the suspect's experience. Having learned all this, Komarov faces a moral dilemma: follow the law or remai...