Vadim Spiridonov

In November, 1942, near the Volga, Stanlingrad is under siege of Commander Friederich Paulus and his 330,000 men. The Russian high command unleashes an operation to protect the Mishkova River to avoid that about four hundred tanks join Paulus' army. The Soviet artillery soldiers protect their position with their lives in a bloodshed with few survivors. (imdb)

During World War II, a widow and her son contrive to cause an accident as he goes to enlist. They return home secretly and become eccentric, bickering recluses.

A Soviet battalion crossing the Dnieper River to liberate Kiev from the Germans, 1943. (imdb)

The Savelyev family's saga spanning 1906-1960 chronicles their perseverance through wars, revolution, and the establishment of Soviet rule in their Siberian village. (imdb)