This is a story of a war between two powerful criminal gangs and their 'dons' (vory v zakone) in the communist Soviet Union. Corruption, cynical rhetorics, deaths of innocent people.
The film is based on a true story of a sport star Bobrov, who happened to become befriended by Vasili, the son of Stalin.
A Russian stage mother will let nothing stand in the way of her son's promising career as a concert pianist.
The small town in the western Kazakhstan. Pigeons is the one of the brightest signs of the post-war happy childhood. Once the fine white a pigeon appearing over the city.