Nastasiya and Fomka

Nastasiya and Fomka

1968 · 22 min · ★ 6.5 · Drama

Winter. Snow is sweeping, a blizzard howls. The wife of old Foma died. Fomka takes a coffin on a sleigh to a village graveyard along a deserted, dusty winter road, and he sees that Nastasiya is walking barefoot in the snow - alive, young, as on a photograph...

Directed by Nikolai Gubenko

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