Little Moscow

PolAND director: Waldemar Krzystek 2008 / 113 min. / Polish-Russian version WITH CZECH AND ENGLISH SUBTITLES cast: Svetlana Khodchenkova, Lesław Żurek, Dmitrij Ulianov, Jurij Itskov, Teresa Sawicka

"Little Moscow," the nickname for the Polish city of Legnica, was headquarters for Soviet forces from 1945 to 1990. In the dramatic period before the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Warsaw Pact Armies, the military moves Russian pilot Yuri and his beautiful wife Vera to Legnica. She learns the language and is fascinated with the music, poetry, and culture of the country. While fraternizing with the Russian occupiers and local Poles is strictly controlled, Vera's enchanting performance in a singing contest ignites a deep passion in Polish lieutenant Michal, and the two must choose between loyalty and love. Seeking truth and redemption in the past, Yuri and Vera‘s daughter return to Legnica years later. The story is based on real events.