Tri Dnja Do Vesni

Lieutenant Volodya has 72 hours to locate the substances in the besieged city and thus save his country from falling victim to a disaster that will surely prove decisive in the outcome of the war. It soon comes to light that the disappearance is in fact part of a well-planned act of sabotage committed by collaborators with the aim of annihilating the population. Doctor Olga Sergeyevna, a researcher at the institute before the outbreak of the war, is enlisted by Volodya as an infection specialist, only for her to fall into the clutches of the NKVD.

Though conventionally staged, the film nevertheless narrates a suspense-packed murder mystery/love story which plays out to the background of the siege of Leningrad during the Second World War, an event which remains deeply anchored in the collective Russian psyche to the present day. MM