This film ballad is dedicated to those who never returned home from WW2. A group of retreating Soviet soldiers, crossing a lunar terrain in a desperate attempt to escape death, is attacked by a German fighter plane that appears like a bolt from the blue. One by one they are killed. Then suddenly, in an unlikely denouement bordering on the mystical, the attacker is shot down with a simple rifle. For ideological reasons that defy understanding this film, one of Viktor Hres’ earliest works, was shelved in 1967 by Soviet censors. In 2010, it was restored by the Debut Studio of the Oleksander Dovzhenko Film Studio with the support of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Ukraine.

Bronius Babkauskas
немецкий лётчик
Vladimir Gorobey

Vladimir Volkov
солдат

Yekaterina Krupennikova
медсестра
Anatoliy Pomiluyko
солдат
Tanaberdi Kurbanov
Viktor Polishchuk
солдат

The Mule
The Mule

Shutterspeed
Shutterspeed

A Family Affair
A Family Affair

Blossom Graduation
Blossom Graduation

Flood
Flood
Here Now
Here Now

A Summer Solstice Story
A Summer Solstice Story

The Difference Between Pipi & Pūpū
The Difference Between Pipi & Pūpū

Melting Man
Melting Man

The Yellow Island
The Yellow Island

The Things They Left Behind
The Things They Left Behind

Adjustment
Adjustment