In 1942, Red Army officer Nikolai Kiselyov receives orders to evacuate over 200 Jewish women, children, and elderly men facing brutality and death in Nazi-occupied Belarus. These exhausted, starving, terrified and bereaved people, deeply scarred by the horrors they have witnessed, must trek hundreds of kilometers along forest paths to regain hope of survival and faith in the future.
Screenplay: Gennadiy Ostrovskiy
Producer: Leonid Vereshchagin, Timur Weinstein, Yuliya Sumachyova, Mariya Ushakova, Anton Zlatopolskiy, Nikita Mikhalkov, Vadim Vereshchagin
Director of Photography: Mikhail Milashin
Director: Sergei Ursuliak