Great Patriotic War. Occupied Kharkov. Water pipe lines and a power station are blown up; bridges, houses and factories are destroyed. German authorities have imposed a curfew. Death by shooting for any disobedience. No food reserves. One million population of the town suffers from hunger and is doomed to death. Elena Chernay with two sons, four-year old Oleg and newborn Valera, fight for their lives…

56 minutes. Producer Dmitriy Lavrinenko.
©Dmitriy Lavrinenko 2004

Prizes:
«Best Director Award», Patriotic Film Festival «Forpost», Kronshtadt, 2004
«Diploma of II Degree», the VIII International Festival «Gold Tambourine», Khanty-Mansiysk, 2004
«Special Prize for Highlighting the War Theme», International Film Festival «Volokolamsk Frontier», Volokolamsk, 2004
«Special Prize for Deep Expansion of the War Theme», International Television and Cinema Forum «Together», Yalta, 2005
«Georgiy Zhzhenov’s Prize», International Film Festival «Stalker», Moscow, 2005

Participation in the following festivals:
International Film Festival «A Window to Europe», Viborg, 2004
International Film Festival «Gold Knight», Krasnoyarsk, 2004, competition program
International Film Festival «Youth», Kiev, 2005, documentary cinema panorama
International Film Festival «Perspectives», the 4 th International Right Protection Film Festival, Nurnberg, Germany, 2005
The Eighth Eurasian Teleforum, Moscow, 2005
«Days of Documentary Cinema», Kiev, 2006

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