RV Group

The events in this Altai epic take place in the 19th century. It is a story about greed and desire for revenge which can ruin the life of a person as well as entire families and generations. A common lad Tokna is in love with beautiful Kymyskai. But a well-to-do 40-year-old bachelor Kutus has set his eyes on her. Relying on his standing and traditions he kidnaps the girl. Naturally, she does not want to live with him and one day runs away to Tokna. The lovers hide in the mountains. After some time Kymyskai, who harbors a grudge against them, finds Tokna and Kykuskai and starts taking revenge. He kills the cow, family’s breadwinner. In response Tokna and his nephew eliminate half of the Kutus family sheep. Thus hostility turns into hatred and misunderstanding develops into a war of extermination.

Social worker Rita spends her working days in the apartments of lonely elderly people. She refuses no one, helping everyone in need. Rita's life will begin to fall apart as soon as her son finds himself in a situation that leads to his death. And the woman's life will turn into hell.

The film deals with intellectual activities which are usually hidden from the human eye. It concerns doing research in film archives, searching for missing films and bringing them back to life. It is a documentary about the work of Dziga Vertov, a prominent soviet director, and the restoration of the director’s original concept of the films Anniversary of the Revolution (1918), The History of the Civil War (1921), Man with a Movie Camera (1929).

Colleagues at work - Anna Sergeevna and young Lena - come to rest in a country sanatorium and become unwitting witnesses to the crime. They begin their dangerous investigation and feel that they, too, are in trouble. Trouble is everywhere here, everything around is saturated with it. Danger weakens and excites. Everyone is infected with danger, including the main suspect - Georgiy.