Released:
2009-06-25

Overview:
May, 8, 1945. Maxim Prokhorov, major of People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs, arrives at a small northern island. There live eleven people: five young women, five children from one to three years, and the captain Karp Nichiporuk. The young mothers were exiled to the island from the territories occupied by fascists, and their children are the children of the German occupier. Arrival of the major upsets the casual life on the island. The major has to "clean up" the island and the nearest settlements. The military man authorizes a plan to organize a training camp in the region for saboteurs. The night of May, 9, the women are told about the German capitulation, their hopes for forgiveness and return home become a certainty. They are even allowed to celebrate the Victory.

Director:
Vera Glagoleva

Runtime:
1h 28min

Genre:
Drama, War

• Cast:
• 
  Aleksandr Baluev
  as
  Carp
• 
  Michael Khmurov
  as
  Major
• 
  Natalya Kudryashova
  as
  Marusya
• 
  Kseniya Surkova
• 
  Julia Melnikova