It feels like a tv-movie made on the fly - deservable not reaching a wide audience.
Don't pay any attention the the reviewers here, that give it a perfect ten. They can really only be family members and friends of the director.
The story is ... well, predicable to a fault. What ever you think will happen, happens.
It's also very hard to look upon the main character as some sort of wronged hero. She was after all a proud party member, true to the horrendous regime of Stalin. But, like many others in those days, she was purged by the dictator.
She wasn't some freedom fighter - and that makes it hard to really care about her.
But even looking past that, the movie is just not extraordinary in any way, shape or form.
Not even close.
Don't pay any attention the the reviewers here, that give it a perfect ten. They can really only be family members and friends of the director.
The story is ... well, predicable to a fault. What ever you think will happen, happens.
It's also very hard to look upon the main character as some sort of wronged hero. She was after all a proud party member, true to the horrendous regime of Stalin. But, like many others in those days, she was purged by the dictator.
She wasn't some freedom fighter - and that makes it hard to really care about her.
But even looking past that, the movie is just not extraordinary in any way, shape or form.
Not even close.