Vladislav Abashin

The measured life of the watchman of an abandoned sanatorium is disturbed by the arrival of a strange couple who asks to stay in one of the rooms. All three have something to hide from and what to hide in the wilderness. (imdb)

Western frontiers of the USSR, 1942. The region is under German occupation, and local partisans are fighting a brutal resistance campaign. (mubi.com)

A mother is informed that her only son, who is serving in a military combat zone, has gone missing in action. A soldier who served alongside her son soon arrives to confirm that he has probably been killed. Nothing interrupts the everyday course of events. After a short while, the mother notices a homeless boy - an immigrant worker with an injured hand. She takes him in. (festivalscope.com)