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Judas Iscariot treats stone field - a field of blood, bought for 30 pieces of silver - the price of betrayal of Jesus. A pilgrim who travels to Jerusalem, stops to ask water and finds and recognizes Judas. Judas justifies his crime with his moral. Every person is entitled to their own choice and has a right of remorse. The second part goes into effect gilded mansions of representative of Rome.
The story of war veteran Sviatoslav Yavir. He follows the secret train that transports to the Siberia Ukrainian women, including his wife and daughter, repressed by the totalitarian regime.
1940s, a Ukrainian village. The children of war play at running a postal service. Limping slightly, the little “postman” delivers something different to each person: a machine gun from the front to one, a letter from a son to another, and a death notice to someone else.
After serving in the army, Maxim came to work as a driver on the construction of a seaport. There he met and befriended little Pasha, the son of Galina, an accountant who is about to get married. But Pasha doesn't like his mother's suitor, and the boy hopes that she will pay attention to the kind and cheerful Maxim.
A film about the life of collective farmers - the sisters of Petrov. All four sisters work as milkmaids. Their personal life was different, but they were all in love with their work, with their profession.
About the fate of composer Sarsky, who appropriated someone else's music and paid for it. A story about good and evil, love and hate. "Free submission to one's fate, rather than shameful struggle against it, is characteristic of animals" — these words of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius became the composer's life credo. Adherence to this dubious wisdom soon leads to the compatibility of genius and criminal. Love breeds misfortune, the doctor turns into an executioner, temples are destroyed, God turns away. However, everything changes with the appearance of a young trainee doctor who refuses to slavishly obey circumstances...
The screen adaptation of Osip Turyansky's novel "Beyond the boundaries of Pain", which is considered one of the best works, depicting the First World War as a hell through which seven people doomed to death, including the future author of the novel, passed.
A heroic film story about boys at war. In 1943, teenagers from a village liberated from the Nazis cleared a rye field of mines, enabling their fellow villagers to harvest the crop.
Young man buys a "second-hand" jacket. In its pocket there's an invitation to a funeral. He goes to the address specified in the invitation.