Lone Star Film Festival - Live to Remember

Run time: 100 min. | aka: Zhivi I Pomni | Russia

Set in a rural Russian village, in 1944, Nastya (Daria Moroz) works on the homefront chopping down trees for the war effort in between her subsistence farming, like all the other young women in the village. In the few moments they aren’t hard at work, they dream of the day when the war will end and their boys will come home for good – even those who have already received death notices. One night, out of the blue, Nastya gets the shock of her life when hubby Andrei (Mikhail Evlanov) turns up out of nowhere, having deserted the army, and asks for her help in less than loving fashion: “If you tell anyone. I’ll kill you.” His secret is kept, amid a string of additional threats but, as Nastya visits his hideaway, a bond grows between them. But with the war coming to an end, an unexpected surprise for them both and the rest of the village soldiers due home any time, its clear their happiness is at risk.

Information from the festival's website