During the second Chechen war of 1999, a small boy joins the tide of
refugees after his parents are killed in his home village. He
meets Carole, a representative from the EU who will help him get his
life back on track. Unbeknown to him, his older sister, Raissa,
is trying to find him amid the hoards of fleeing civilians.
Meanwhile, a 20-year-old Russian named Kolia has just enrolled in the
army. His life will soon be upset by the day to day experience of
the war...
Science-fiction came into its own in B-movies of the 1950s, but it remains a respected and popular genre, bursting into the mainstream in the late 1970s.
From its birth in 1895, cinema has been an essential part of French culture. Now it is one of the most dynamic, versatile and important of the arts in France.
Franz Kafka's letters to his fiancée Felice Bauer not only reveal a soul in torment; they also give us a harrowing self-portrait of a man appalled by his own existence.