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June 1941. Preparations for the wedding of a butcher’s son and a rabbi’s daughter are in full swing in a Jewish shtetl in the Lviv Region. The intrigue of this seemingly ordinary event is that Yuna – the bride – loves another man and he, Mendele… plans to kidnap her. At this very time, a Nazi death squad is approaching the shtetl.

A seventeen-year-old village school graduate, a guy nicknamed Kazan, dreams of becoming a famous rapper and winning the heart of Sveta. For the sake of his dream, he is willing to risk everything, but circumstances steer his life in a different direction.

A provincial journalist visits a famous writer and Nobel Prize winner to interview him on the occasion of release of his new novel. However, their conversation reminiscent of a chess game gradually reveals a chain of secrets that link the two men to the same woman. Based on the play by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt «Variations énigmatiques».

Three elderly veterans of a brutal and bloody war spend the rest of their lives in a shelter and do everything they can to push away thoughts of the impending end. To do this, they joke around, play pranks, and eventually decide to escape to become free as birds.

Three elderly veterans of a brutal and bloody war spend the rest of their lives in a shelter and do everything they can to push away thoughts of the impending end. To do this, they joke around, play pranks, and eventually decide to escape to become free as birds.