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It has been three long years since Stepan last saw his family or heard from his wife. Stepan, a Soviet Army soldier, spent these three years fighting fascists in a partisan unit while his wife and two children considered him missing-in-action, or even dead. Once in an army hospital and awaiting his leave after being wounded, Stepan decides to find out just how much his wife loves him. He writes a letter in which he tells her that he has had two legs amputated. Now that he is a legless cripple, will Shura accept him back? On receiving the letter, Shura does not hesitate whatsoever, and accepts her husband for what he is. But there is a betrayal awaiting...

Russia - 2007 - 17 mn - Super 35 mm - Colour

Director Matvey Zhivov Script Tatiana Sarana, Matvey Zhivov Camera Roger Singh Sound Andrei Korinsky Sets Andrei Modnikov Music Pavel Karmanov Interprétation Aleksei Serebriakov, Victoria Tolstoganova Cast Vitali Haev, Maksim Shibaev, Maksim Boldyrev

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