The film tells about the shooting of a demonstration of workers in Novocherkassk in 1962. Lyudmila is a party worker of the local city committee, a staunch communist. During a workers' strike at the Novocherkassk Electric Locomotive Plant, Lyudmila witnesses the shooting of a workers' demonstration by order of the Government Commission, which is trying to hide the fact of a mass strike in the USSR. During the execution, Lyudmila's daughter disappears in the square, which makes a change in Lyudmila's worldview. Despite the blockade of the city, mass arrests and attempts by the Soviet authorities to hide what happened, she is looking for her daughter everywhere.
MPAA Rating: | NR |
Genre: | Drama, History |
Country: | Russian Federation |
Directed By: | Andrey Konchalovskiy |
Written By: | Elena Kiseleva, Andrey Konchalovskiy |
Cast: | Vladislav Komarov, Alexander Maskelyne, Yuliya Vysotskaya, Yuliya Burova, Andrey Gusev, Sergei Erlish |
In Theaters: | Dec 25, 2020 |
Runtime: | 1 hour 56 minutes |
Production: | Production Center of Andrei Konchalovsky |
Read More On: | Wikipedia |