On April 26, the premiere of the Russian feature film “Pravednik” will take place at the Russian House in Sofia. This is a military historical drama by the master of Russian cinema, director Sergei Ursulyak, starring Alexander Yatsenko, Sergei Makovetsky, Mark Eidelstein, Lyubov Konstantinova and Yevgeny Tkachuk.
The film takes place in 1942, during the Great Patriotic War. Red Army officer Nikolai Kiselyov receives an order to withdraw over two hundred Jews from the occupied Belarusian lands behind the front line — old men, women and children who miraculously escaped the imminent massacre. These exhausted by hunger and fear people who have lost their relatives and almost lost their minds from the horror they experienced, will have to walk hundreds of kilometers along forest trails to regain hope for salvation and faith in the future.