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Film about the life of a modern Siberian Tatar village on a forgotten stretch of the Silk Road.
1943 year. Alma-Ata. The hero of the film is a young Michurin fruit grower who revives a medicinal apple variety and investigates a strange crime. The script was written based on the book by Mikhail Zoshchenko "Before the Sunrise".
The entire family of a 6-year-old Anna dies in the mass coordinated execution of Jews. The mother covers up Anna with her own body, and the girl miraculously survives. For the next few hundred days Anna hides in the disused chimney at the Nazi Commandant's office. From her shelter she watches as life passes her by until the village is liberated from the Nazi. In these inhuman conditions Anna not only survives but keeps her humanity. Many factors help her: memories from the life swept away by war, the cultural foundations laid by the parents and a friend who saves her from loneliness.
Due to a very dry year, the khan ordered the entire young population to go in search of better places and leave the old people at home. All the old people were left to die and only one boy, risking his life, took his grandfather with him, hiding him in a large box. On the road, three times the wisdom of the old man helped everyone, and having learned that it was the old man who helped, the khan ordered his soldiers to take all the old men left behind with them...
Based on the fairy tale "Silver Hoof".
