Aleksandr Bureyev

Based upon a short story by Leo Tolstoy, two Russian soldiers, Sacha and Vania, are ambushed by Muslim rebels in the grandly forbidding Caucasus and taken prisoner. Although complete understanding never fully emerges, their bittersweet ordeal reveals the human soul of two vastly different cultures. (imdb)

Young Sasha is brought into a state-run children's home because his mother died early and his father spends most of his life in prison. The conditions are like in a penal institution. Sasha tries several times to escape and to search for his father. (imdb)

A young tramp enters an underground concentration camp organized by the Central Asian mafia. Cruel conditions confront the hero with the need to make a courageous decision. (imdb)