LANGUAGE:RUSSIAN 

SUBTITLES:ENGLISH 

Run Time: 8 episodes x ~ 50 min (2 DVD)

A screen version of the best-selling novel by Guzel Yakhina. The year is 1930. In a small Tatar village, a woman named Zuleikha watches as her husband is murdered by communists. Zuleikha herself is sent into exile, enduring a horrendous train journey to a remote spot on the Angara River in Siberia. Conditions in the camp are tough, and many of her group do not survive the first difficult winter. 

Thirty exiles find themselves abandoned in the remote taiga without food, shelter or warm clothes. Illiterate peasants and Leningrad intellectuals, "declassed elements" and criminals, Muslims and Christians, pagans and atheists, Russians, Tatars, Germans, Chuvashs - they all defend their right to life against the harsh nature and the ruthless state.