Soloist Needed

A film about national belonging, featuring Latvian director Alvis Hermanis.

Kazakhstan. 1954. Copper mines. Concentration camp. In the center of the plot - a revolt which prisoners raised in protest against the inhuman treatment.

Twenty-year-old vagabond Damir returns to Alma-Ata to restore his documents and start a normal life. In the meantime, he chooses a free apartment in the very center of the city - the roof of a multi-story building. It soon turns out that a teenager with autism, Kostik, who runs away from an apartment in the building and calls himself "Agent Koklinch", also considers the roof his own. While they fight for territory, Kostik regains his lost speech, and his family clings to Damir as if he were a miracle worker. But Damir has enough of his own problems, but everything changes with the appearance of Sofia, a student of Kostik's mother. In pursuit of the girl's heart, Damir throws himself into an adventure that makes him reconsider his ideas about normality.

In 1949, before the celebration of Stalin's 70th anniversary, disabled veterans of the Second World War were shot in the former USSR. The state could not even provide them with an elementary existence and simply destroyed them. Some of them were shot, some were taken to the far islands of the North and to the remote corners of Siberia. The film reproduces a possible story of such a destruction of crippled soldiers in one of Stalin's camps. Combat commander Alexei finds his old military friend, who must also be shot. A real riot begins...

Viktor and Volodya own shares in the same company. Victor has a happy family, wife, children, and Volodya has never taken place in his personal life and, besides, he has always been in love with Victor's wife, Alina. Taking advantage of the fact that Victor borrowed a huge amount of money, he corners him and threatens him, and then orders the brutal murder of his partner. Soon, the inconsolable Alina finds a terrible film of her husband's execution and prepares for revenge...