Before Easter

The film tells about the life of refugees from Tajikistan, former Soviet citizens who, after the collapse of the USSR, having returned to their homeland for more than ten years, live in trailers near the town of Borisoglebsk without hope for the future. Refugees talk about their problems, about the tragic events in Tajikistan in the early 1990s. (sync.). Life of refugees. The cemetery where their relatives are buried. Streets of Borisoglebsk. The square in front of the theater building and theatrical posters. Students in the audience for a lecture. Passage of a passenger train. Ship in the ocean. Streets of evening Moscow; advertising lights. Newsreels: refugees at the station stand in line for boiling water, cook food on a fire (1920s); Soviet fighters are photographed on the streets of Berlin, the meeting of fighters at the Belorussky railway station in Moscow after the end of the war (1945); fighting in the Chechen Republic, wounded soldiers (after 1994)

Color

4

2004