A chronicle of a Soviet family folk-band founded by a mother of six.

After Polina, a mother of six, loses her husband, who went to jail for stealing charcoal and was killed when he tried to escape, she stays behind without any support. To be able to survive, Polina and her family start a folk group. But soon she understands that her children deserve a better fate, and she takes the desperate decision to steal a plane and go abroad... Fifteen years later, Polina is released from prison and finds out that fate has scattered her children all over the country: one is in the army, another is a miner in the Donbass, and the oldest, Lyonchik, who used to be in a mental institution, now pretends to be insane. Polina gathers all of her sons to free their older brother from the psychiatric hospital...

Cast & crew

Denis Evstigneev

Director

Nonna Mordyukova

Polina Yuryeva

Oleg Menshikov

Lyonchik Yuryev

Vladimir Mashkov

Nikolai Yuryev

Evgeny Mironov

Pavel Yuryev

Aleksei Kravchenko

Vasili Yuryev

Andrei Panin

Yuryev-father

Maksim Sukhanov

Hospital chief

Nikolay Chindyaykin

Doctor

Elena Panova

Polina in his youth

Mikhail Krylov

Pavel Lebeshev

Valeriy Doronin

Anna Shtukaturova

Natalya Pozdnyakova

Maria Skosyreva

Anatoliy Belyy

Aleksei Shevchenkov

R

Rafik Sabirov

Vladimir Ivanov

Zhanna Epple