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The northern military town on the eve of the New Year is filled with snow, fear and hope: one of the submarines has an accident, it is being towed to the base without moving, there are victims. This is all that is known from the short report. On New Year's Eve, Warrant Officer Seryogin, appointed by Santa Claus, comes to the house where little Bear is waiting for his dad from the campaign ...
What if you deprive 'civilized man' all the gadgets, and send him to the place where he will face the irrational and incomprehensible things?
Summer, 1942. A young Russian communications officer sentenced to death flees execution and becomes brothers-in-arms with his guard against the Germans.
Andrey lives with his sick mother, suffering serious disease, schizophrenia. Close relatives are tired of dealing with the disease: his father cut loose from his family long time ago, now he has another family; his sister also left home and for several years no one has heard from her. Only Andrey does not give up - day after day he fosters his sick mother, saves money and compiles documents to take her to Germany for treatment. But the fate is merciless to the main character - his mom dies the day before the departure - Andrey's world turned upside down - He hits the road to talk to his sister, to look into his father's eyes, to understand himself... "The Son" is a parable, a dream. The film is based upon a simple story about complicated relationships between a son and his parents and, what is most important, with himself. The relationships that end in tragic outcome.
Graduation in an ordinary high school turns into a tragedy when, under strange circumstances, an eleventh-grader Katya Chunina dies. Shortly before that, her boyfriend Maxim Volkov goes missing. He was last seen in the morning at the hospital, from which he escaped by walking out of the window and remained unharmed. It seems that all these events are connected.
People come into this world to be happy, but for some reason they often choose suffering instead. After an accident, Anna and bleeding Andrei find themselves in a deserted house - they need help. Andrei is the only close person to her, and Anna is afraid of loosing him. But instead of help in this strange place Anna meets her mother who died a year ago in seniors' home and her unborn son. Anna does not believe she can be happy again, since she has to face the most merciless judge of all - her own conscience. You can change anything if you only want to.
